Win Rate Isn’t Everything

 Before copy trading, I honestly thought a 90% win rate meant “safe”. I was so wrong 😂. I used to filter by the highest win rate and assumed that automatically meant low risk. What I didn’t understand is that some strategies win small many times and then lose HUGE once, and a 60–65% win rate with decent risk control can actually be safer than 90% with martingale.

What I wish I knew earlier is that position size and stop loss matter more than win rate, and that profit factor plus drawdown tell a better story than just “number of wins”. A trader who accepts small losses calmly is often more reliable than one who “never” loses… until the whole account explodes. If you’re picking someone to copy, don’t chase 99% win rate – look at how they lose, not only how they win.