Recovery is asymmetric because the gain is earned on the reduced balance: lose 20% and you need 25% back, lose 50% and you need 100%.
Converted into R, a 20% drawdown at 0.5% risk is 50R of ground to recover, roughly 143 trades at a 0.35R edge.
A 20% drawdown needs a 25% gain to return to level, and that asymmetry worsens the deeper it runs. Enter the drawdown and your expectancy per gold trade and the calculator returns the gain required, the number of trades it implies and what a reduced risk setting does to that timeline.
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