ConfirmedTrades

Guides

Long-form, plain-English explanations of how track records are verified, what the numbers on an account page mean, and how to vet an EA or signal before you trust it.

• Metrics · 6 min read · 26 Aug 2026

  Why broker credit and bonus are not deposits — and why your numbers may change

  Credit and bonus raise an account balance without the trader funding it. Here is why ConfirmedTrades records them separately, and why an account's deposits can fall (and its return rise) once they are reclassified.

• Metrics · 9 min read · 24 Aug 2026

  MAE and MFE explained: what a trade did while it was open, not just how it ended

  How MAE and MFE are measured on a live account, how to read the profit-vs-MFE and profit-vs-MAE charts, and what they reveal about stops, targets and exits.

• Metrics · 7 min read · 20 Apr 2026

  Win rate is lying: expectancy, profit factor, AHPR and GHPR

  A 90% win rate can lose money and a 35% win rate can be excellent. The numbers that actually show whether a strategy has an edge, and where to find them.

• Metrics · 7 min read · 6 Apr 2026

  Broker cost audit: spread, slippage, commission and swap on a track record

  Execution costs are where a marginal EA goes to die. How to read spread and slippage in points on the Execution panel, and where commission and swap hide.

• Metrics · 7 min read · 30 Mar 2026

  Maximum drawdown explained: balance vs equity, and why ours can't be reset

  The difference between balance and equity drawdown, how ConfirmedTrades measures both, and why the anti-cheat ledger keeps the worst value forever.

• Metrics · 6 min read · 23 Mar 2026

  Time-weighted return explained: why deposits don't count as gains

  ConfirmedTrades reports gain as a time-weighted return. What that means, why a plain balance change misleads, and how to read a growth chart with deposits.