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Mon 12 Oct, 17:17
When in the day do I trade best, and when worst?
Your best hours are 12-18: 35 trades averaging +0.52R and winning 74% of the time. Your weakest are 00-06: 18 trades averaging −0.08R.
The hours with a negative average are where you give the most back. Before cutting anything, look at whether those trades also broke a rule: the hour may be the symptom and not the cause.
Figures from your journal, not advice. Blocks of a few dozen trades can move a lot from one month to the next.
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SELECT CASE WHEN entry_hour_local < 6 THEN '00-06' WHEN entry_hour_local < 12 THEN '06-12' WHEN entry_hour_local < 18 THEN '12-18' ELSE '18-24' END AS hours, COUNT(*) AS trades, ROUND(SUM(net_pnl), 2) AS net, ROUND(AVG(r_actual), 2) AS avg_r, ROUND(100 * AVG(net_pnl > 0), 0) AS win_pct FROM journal_trades WHERE status = 'closed' AND entry_hour_local IS NOT NULL GROUP BY hours ORDER BY hours
| hours | trades | net | avg_r | win_pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00-06 | 18 | -1072.74 | -0.08 | 44 |
| 06-12 | 41 | 1301.00 | 0.17 | 59 |
| 12-18 | 35 | 3953.04 | 0.52 | 74 |
| 18-24 | 39 | 194.92 | 0.08 | 54 |