Head to head
LizardvsOne Man Army
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.
Lizard 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
- 2.30▲
- 2.13▲
- Payoff ratioAverage win divided by average loss
- 0.76▲
- 0.40▲
- Max drawdownDeepest fall from a previous high
- 14.7%▲
- 14.7%▲
- Recovery factorNet profit per unit of worst fall
- 3.21▲
- 3.63▲
- Growth per monthTotal growth compounded to a monthly rate
- 19.00%▲
- 8.92%▲
- Win rateNot scored — a high win rate is only good if the payoff supports it
- 75.2%▲
- 84.2%▲
- Record lengthHow much evidence there is
- 4 months▲
- 12 months▲
- TradesSample size behind every figure above
- 161▲
- 493▲
- Total growthNot comparable on its own — the records cover different spans
- 91.8%▲
- 172.6%▲
- Account sizePercentages compound faster on a small balance
- $250▲
- $892▲
Why these two are not quite like-for-like
- The two are measured from different sources — Lizard from trade history, One Man Army from published statistics. The ratios are computed the same way, but only a trade-by-trade history supports the full set of risk checks.
- One record is 3.2× longer than the other — One Man Army has had more time to meet a market it dislikes, which cuts both ways when reading its drawdown.
- The tracked accounts are 4× apart in size. Percentage growth compounds much faster on a small balance, so the growth figures are not the like-for-like they look.
What each record shows
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Lizard
- Grid / basket positions
- Unbounded losses
Measured from trade history · 161 trades · 4 months
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One Man Army
Nothing in the published figures raised a flag. The checks that need trade-level data could not be run.
Measured from published statistics · 493 trades · 12 months
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