Average win
Shows the average size of trades that closed in profit.
Average win looks only at trades that finished above zero and asks how large the typical winner was. It is the average payout on winning tickets, not the average over all trades.
It helps explain the payoff side of the system. Read it with average loss and win rate: a strategy with fewer wins can still work historically if its winners are much larger than its losers.
Bigger is better only in context. A high average win can come from one unusual outlier, and a small average win can be fine for a high-win-rate style. A common mistake is to celebrate average win without checking how often those wins happen and how large the losses are.
Example: three winning trades close at +$80, +$120 and +$100. Average win is ($80 + $120 + $100) / 3 = $100. If average loss is $150, one typical loss needs one and a half typical wins to offset it.
How we compute it
We include only closed trades with positive net P&L, where net includes commissions and swaps. The average is calculated in the account currency over the selected history or filter.