84 wins, 1 loss, a 6.45% gain and a profit factor of 2.27. At first glance, a cycle most traders would sign off on. Yet that single losing position erased 46% of the maximum profit the cycle ever reached.

In this breakdown, we open the real Trading Journal of trader Ivanna M. — a trading cycle on the DJ30 index with $10,000 starting capital. We’ll show you what she did by the book: consistent position sizing, a stop loss and take profit on every single trade, no revenge trading. And then one single setup with a risk-to-reward ratio of 149:1 against the trade — and what exactly happened to her equity in that moment.

A high win rate won’t save you if one loss weighs more than forty wins combined. The outcome isn’t decided by the number of green rows — it’s decided by risk asymmetry. And that’s exactly what you only see in hindsight without a Trading Journal — once the profit is already gone.

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