What is a high win rate?

In your opinion.

Assuming a R:R of 2:1.

Look at this table:


If your results are in the red-orange area you are in the 95% (losing trader)
If your results are in the yellow area you are in the 4.99%. (profitable trader)
If your results are in the green area you are God level top 0.01% (VERY profitable trader)

In advertising, the win rate is a percentage metric in programmatic media marketing that measures the number of impressions won over the number of impressions bid. High win rates indicate either low competition, aggressive bids in comparison to competitors, or selective inventory.

I am in the red orange zone. Trying hard to at least reach the edge of the yellow zone.

50% would be huge; very few traders can sustain 50% win-rate and R=2 over the long term.

In practice, 45% combined with a high trade-frequency (the metric so often overlooked in such discussions) would be very good indeed.

I aim for a higher win-rate with a lower R, myself, as it makes risk-management much easier.

The advice so often given in forums to new traders not to enter trades with an R of less than 2 is shockingly bad, IMO.

You cannot always win in the forex market. Losing is a part and parcel. Once you accept the fact, you become a real trader.

Long Run winner required long run discipline!!!