Head to head
Cortex IDX vs FarmedHedge Pair Trading Dashboard
Both sets of figures are computed the same way from each product's own record. The measures that can be read against each other — the unit-free ratios — are scored. The ones that depend on how big the account was or how long it ran are shown underneath, unscored, because putting a winner on them would be comparing two different questions.
FarmedHedge Pair Trading Dashboard leads on 3 of the 5 measures that can be scored.
A count of rows, not a recommendation. Which of these measures matters is a question about the account it would run on.
- Profit factorEverything won divided by everything lost
- 3.62▲
- 1.34▲
- Payoff ratioAverage win divided by average loss
- 0.22▲
- 0.97▲
- Max drawdownDeepest fall from a previous high
- 16.7%▲
- 42.2%▲
- Recovery factorNet profit per unit of worst fall
- 2.49▲
- 4.95▲
- Growth per monthTotal growth compounded to a monthly rate
- 19.44%▲
- 21.97%▲
- Win rateNot scored — a high win rate is only good if the payoff supports it
- 94.3%▲
- 58.1%▲
- Record lengthHow much evidence there is
- 4 months▲
- 9 months▲
- TradesSample size behind every figure above
- 124▲
- 2,364▲
- Total growthNot comparable on its own — the records cover different spans
- 84.6%▲
- 522.5%▲
- Account sizePercentages compound faster on a small balance
- $500▲
- $300▲
Why these two are not quite like-for-like
- One record is 2.6× longer than the other — FarmedHedge Pair Trading Dashboard has had more time to meet a market it dislikes, which cuts both ways when reading its drawdown.
- Both cover US30, but FarmedHedge Pair Trading Dashboard also trades NAS100. Its figures are a blend across those instruments rather than a result on US30 alone.
What each record shows
MT5 · Expert Advisor · US30
Cortex IDX
- Small wins, large losses
Measured from published statistics · 124 trades · 4 months
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FarmedHedge Pair Trading Dashboard
Nothing in the published figures raised a flag. The checks that need trade-level data could not be run.
Measured from published statistics · 2,364 trades · 9 months
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