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What is Drawdown in Forex?

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drawdowns are very useful for me to see the development of my trading performance, but drawdowns only show the development of trading performance rather than helping to do analysis and such.
#16 - February 16, 2020, 10:16:11 AM

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Drawdowns are used to evaluate trading performance, but drawdowns only indicate that technicality does not repeatedly show trading performance and how to correct drawdowns that are lacking.
#17 - February 17, 2020, 02:54:11 AM

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drawdon is a graph that shows the development of trading performance and we can see through the menu on the mt4 / mt5 platform, but for me drawdown is just a chart, the real performance lies in our discipline.
#18 - May 19, 2020, 07:06:16 PM

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In my opinion, drawdown is only an analysis tool to find out the extent of our trading performance so that we can take a better strategy for the future.
#19 - August 20, 2020, 06:57:28 AM

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Traders can use a drawdown to estimate how good their trading skills are and how their trading performance develops from time to time and can evaluate them.
#20 - August 20, 2020, 11:58:16 AM

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More or less in my opinion like this is about drawdown, forex trading to see the trading results that will be improved.
The drawdown shows whether their trading performance is developing or not and what the results are like, which will then be evaluated for increased trading.
#21 - August 24, 2020, 11:50:21 PM

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The drawdown is one of the features in MT4 which is often used by traders to measure the performance of the trades they run even though I also use it quite rarely.
#22 - August 26, 2020, 05:52:01 PM

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if we can make good use of the drawdown, including to see our trading performance and make it our trading benchmark, the drawdown will be very important and useful.
#23 - August 27, 2020, 10:44:16 AM

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The drawdown is one of the features in the MT4 platform and can help see our trading performance if we apply the strategy correctly, the drawdown can be even better.
#24 - September 02, 2020, 03:08:50 PM

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Focusing on the drawdown alone will not guarantee a trader to be successful because the drawdown is only an indicator or monitor of trading performance, not a trading controller that is headed in a good direction.
#25 - October 22, 2020, 01:49:23 PM

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A drawdown is an important indicator in assessing a trading performance and a drawdown will usually have many details related to the transactions we make.
#26 - October 29, 2020, 03:40:17 PM

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Drawdown as the difference from the performance of the trades carried out is very useful for evaluation.
After everything can be seen from the drawdown, we can measure the loss and find the cause to be fixed.
#27 - November 02, 2020, 04:10:13 AM

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Drawdown can be referred to as the difference between initial capital and ongoing equity.
The further the decline in equity means the higher the drawdown.
This will show the level of accuracy of our analysis, if the drawdown is high then our analysis is still very weak and must be fixed.
#28 - November 03, 2020, 11:50:10 PM

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The drawdoan is a statement that traders can use to get information about detailed trades made and see trading performance.
#29 - November 04, 2020, 02:25:55 PM

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drawdown is a form of parameter that is often used by traders to measure trading performance and also to find out transaction details.
#30 - November 05, 2020, 01:28:37 AM

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