Guilty.
I go up and down some hills, and use a rear-view mirror and wing-mirrors.![]()
It doesn't matter. Absolutely no impoliteness intended at all, but (a) win-rates are only one part of the profitability formula, and (b) I strongly suspect, overall, that it may well be easier for many to make overall profit from a 35%-40% win-rate than it is from a 60%-70% win-rate, and if you read books like Van Tharp's Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom and Tushar Chande's Beyond Technical Analysis, they explain why, with examples. And in that sense, the answers don't matter much, because it's kind of a "bad question". Sorry!
The Market Wizards as a group that are swing and position/trend trading expect for 10-20% of all their trades to account for their mind blowing profits each year. Their win rate is around 40%. They focus mainly on risk management and the process of trading consistently following their best practices. - They report the entry signal is not considered to be much of a factor in their success.
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