Trading glossary
Edge
An edge is a repeatable statistical advantage in your trading that makes your expectancy positive over enough trades. It comes from a setup, a market, or an execution advantage, and it is only real if it survives review of your actual results. Most traders cannot say whether they have an edge because they never measure it. A journal is what turns that question from opinion into data: win rate, profit factor, expectancy and drawdown computed from your real trades. Traders Vault calculates these automatically and lets you break them down to find where your edge lives.
What is Edge in trading?
An edge is a repeatable statistical advantage in your trading that makes your expectancy positive over enough trades. It comes from a setup, a market, or an execution advantage, and it is only real if it survives review of your actual results. Most traders cannot say whether they have an edge because they never measure it. A journal is what turns that question from opinion into data: win rate, profit factor, expectancy and drawdown computed from your real trades. Traders Vault calculates these automatically and lets you break them down to find where your edge lives.