Which Setup Makes Your Money

Which setup, in five lines

Finding which of your setups makes the money is the trade log split by its setup column, each setup summed on its own. One account total hides which rule earned it, and three rules can look like one. The method is a tag on every row, written when the trade is taken, and then a sum per tag, read as pips per trade with its wobble rather than as totals. The example is three plain hour-pairs on the euro run side by side through 2026, 405 trades in one log: setup A, buy at 10:00 and sell at 18:00, made 150.3 pips, where a pip is the fourth decimal place of the price; setup B, 08:00 to 12:00, made 166.6; setup C, 14:00 to 20:00, made 39.3.

Three tills in one shop

Picture a shop with three tills. At the end of the day the takings are one number, 356.2, and it says nothing about the tills. Counted per till, A took 150.3, B took 166.6 and C took 39.3, and the third till hardly paid for its own drawer. The till number on every receipt is the setup column on every row of the log, and it is written at the moment of the sale, not reconstructed at closing time from memory, because memory assigns the good receipts to the favourite till.

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