How to calculate win rate
Win Rate % = (Winning Trades / Total Trades) × 100
Results round to one decimal place. With zero trades entered, the calculator simply stays blank rather than showing an error.
Worked example. You closed 60 trades last month. 37 finished in profit.
37 / 60 = 0.6167 0.6167 × 100 = 61.7%
Your win rate is 61.7%. Now suppose your average winner pays twice your average loser — a 1:2 risk-reward ratio. Break-even win rate is 1 / (1 + 2) = 0.333, or 33.3%. You are comfortably above it, which is why the month was green.
- •Count your winning trades over the period you care about.
- •Count your total closed trades (wins plus losses; scratches at break-even are usually excluded).
- •Divide wins by total.
- •Multiply by 100.
Why it matters for your trading
Win rate alone tells you almost nothing about whether you make money. A scalper who wins 80% of trades but lets the occasional loser run can still be net negative; a swing trader winning 35% of the time can compound steadily if the winners are large. The number that matters is expectancy, and win rate is only half of it — the other half is your risk-reward ratio.
That is why the break-even figure sits right next to your win rate here. It reframes the question from "is my win rate good?" to "is my win rate good enough for the way I take profit and cut losses?" Pair this tool with the risk-reward calculator and you have the whole expectancy picture before you ever place a trade.