Trade Analysis - January 2026

As I mentioned in my previous article, this is my first month of joining the USIC for the 3rd time in a row.

While I use consolidation of 2 of my personal accounts for reporting purposes, I perform analysis on all my trading accounts. This gives a better representation of where I am at with my trading journey. These accounts include my SMSF account, 401K account in US and smaller accounts created for the sake of my children.

Over the course of the month, I closed 116 trades with a win/loss ration of 32% as depicted in the table below.

Number of trades	116
Number of winning trades	37
Number of losing trades	79
Win/Loss Ratio	32%
Average Gain %	7.71%
Average Loss %	5.57%

This was despite a very tough environment in terms of trading with the markets being range bound and unpredictable. This reflects in my average gain being 7.71% as compared to the average loss of 5.57%. The resultant adjusted win/loss ratio is 0.6 which means I made 0.6 for every 1 dollar loss.

I held the winning trades for 12 days on average and the losing trades for 4 days on average which is consistent with holding winners and letting go of losers.

Where I haven't done really well, is being able to control my losses as I often took trades with a stop loss going up to -15%. My largest gain was ~20% and largest loss ~-15%. I need to work on reducing the number of trades that I take which has risks higher than 7%.

The other factor that I continue to struggle with is the trade size. I don't have the confidence to trade big despite trying for so many years. On average my trade size is around 1.22% whereas I should be aiming for atleast 6.25%.

The good thing was that I preserved my mental capital despite it being a hard environment with my overall portfolio loss being at -2.1% for the month.