Ideal R:R and what you left on the table
A trade's final result does not tell the whole story: it says nothing about how far in your favour it went before turning around. These two metrics measure exactly that, matching every trade against the real one-minute candles of the market.
The essentials
- Ideal R:R: what the trade would have returned had you closed it at its best moment.
- Left on the table: how many trades you closed at a loss after being more than 1R in profit.
- Pro feature. The calculation runs in the background, not when you open the page.
How to read them
- Ideal R:R well above your real R:R
- The market was offering more than you took: either you exit too early, or your targets are short for how much that instrument moves.
- Ideal R:R close to your real R:R
- You are capturing most of what the move offered. Your room for improvement is not in the exit.
- High «left on the table»
- Trades that were +1R in profit and you still closed red. The textbook «I should have moved my stop» case.
- Calculation coverage
- What share of your trades could be measured. It needs entry price, direction, close time and an instrument present in the market history.
Tips
- Coverage does not reach 100% straight away: the calculation runs gradually in the background and new trades take a while to show up measured.
- Very low coverage usually means your trades have no close time or entry price — check how you are importing them.
Related
Sharpe and average R:R
Sharpe tells you whether your returns compensate the volatility. R:R tells you whether your system needs to hit a lot or a little to be profitable.
Advanced Statistics
The Statistics sub-tab of Performance → Metrics: the highest level of detail. Complements the standard analysis with advanced ratios, distributions, and a full per-symbol table.
Breakeven threshold
When you move your stop to entry, the trade almost never closes at exactly zero: commission, swap and spread eat into it. The threshold tells the journal how far from zero a trade has to land before it really counts as a win or a loss.