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Fri 30 Oct, 23:17
When in the day do I trade best, and when worst?
Your best hours are 12-18: 41 trades averaging +0.45R and winning 61% of the time. Your weakest are 00-06: 17 trades averaging −0.26R.
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 | 17 | -539.16 | -0.26 | 47 |
| 06-12 | 38 | 2578.72 | 0.26 | 55 |
| 12-18 | 41 | 3882.59 | 0.45 | 61 |
| 18-24 | 30 | 1823.45 | 0.40 | 57 |