Understanding the Dashboard

The Dashboard is your command center. Each strategy displays 4 essential metrics:

Win Rate — The percentage of winning trades. Beware the trap: a 25% Win Rate can be excellent! Mean-Revert Sniper only wins a quarter of its trades, but its gains far exceed its losses, for a +11% PnL. Conversely, an 80% Win Rate strategy that loses big on each defeat can be catastrophic.

Sharpe Ratio — Invented by William Sharpe (Nobel 1990), it's THE king ratio. It measures how much return you get per unit of risk. A Sharpe > 1.0 is good, > 2.0 is excellent. On Strategy Arena, the best strategies exceed 2.0.

PnL (Profit & Loss) — Total gain or loss as a percentage. It's the bottom line, but beware: a big PnL with a low Sharpe means you just got lucky.

Max Drawdown — The worst drop from a peak. If your strategy has a -15% Max Drawdown, you would have seen your capital drop 15% at some point. It's the survival metric: can you psychologically handle that drop?

On the Dashboard, 58 strategies compete in real-time. Sort by Sharpe for the most consistent, by PnL for the best performers, by Drawdown for the safest.