Why two pages show different win rates

Two VEXA screens can show two different win rates for the same trades. Both are right. Here are the two formulas and how to tell which one you are reading.

Same on every platform Updated 26 July 2026

What this does

VEXA shows a win rate in several places. Two of them divide by different numbers, so the same set of trades can produce two different percentages. Neither is a bug. They answer two different questions.

The two formulas

Win rate on the Metrics screen is the share of all your closed trades that made money.

win rate = winning trades / all closed trades x 100

Break-even trades stay in the denominator. They did not make money, so they pull the number down.

Win rate on the Trades screen is the share of your decisive trades that made money.

win rate = winning trades / (winning trades + losing trades) x 100

Break-even trades are removed from both sides. They are neither a win nor a loss, so they are dropped from the question entirely.

A winning trade is one with profit and loss above zero. A losing trade is one below zero. A break-even trade is exactly zero.

A worked example

Ten closed trades: six made money, three lost money, one closed at exactly zero.

Screen	Sum	Shown
Metrics	6 / 10	60.0%
Trades	6 / (6 + 3)	66.7%

Both describe the same ten trades. The Metrics figure answers “how often did I make money when I traded?”. The Trades figure answers “when a trade resolved one way or the other, how often was I right?”.

If you have no break-even trades at all, the two numbers are identical. The gap only opens once a trade closes at exactly zero.

Which screen uses which

Where you see it	Denominator	Break-even counts as
Metrics screen, Win Rate	all closed trades	nothing, but it stays in the denominator
Trades screen, Win Rate tile	wins plus losses	excluded from both sides
Journal day card, Win Rate	all trades that day	nothing, but it stays in the denominator
Journal day card, W/L tile	not a rate, a pair of counts	a loss
Dashboard, Performance Snapshot	all closed trades	nothing, but it stays in the denominator

The Trades screen exists on the web, iPad and Android tablet. On iPhone and Android phone there is no separate Trades screen, so the pair you are most likely to compare is the Metrics win rate against the Journal day card.

What you should see

Two percentages that differ by a few points, with the Trades figure the higher of the two. The size of the gap tracks how many break-even trades you have: one break-even in ten trades moves it by a few points, none moves it at all.

If the gap is large, count your break-even trades. Filter the Trades screen by Status Break Even and read the result count. That number explains the whole difference.

If it doesn’t work

The gap is much larger than your break-even count explains. The two screens are almost certainly not looking at the same trades. Check the date range and the account filter, which are shared across pages and persist between visits. See Date range, account and advanced filters.
One screen is stale. Trade data is cached for five minutes. See Refresh, caching and stale numbers.
The trade counts differ as well as the rate. A trade held over several days is filed under its entry date in the Journal and its exit date everywhere else. See How VEXA calculates every metric.

How VEXA calculates every metric The formula behind every number on the Metrics screen, including profit factor, drawdown, volume, average trades per day and what counts as a green day. Gross and net P&L Why the Trades screen shows the same figure for Total P&L and Net P&L, and where to find the gross number that excludes commissions. Date range, account and advanced filters The date range and account filter are shared across pages and stay set between visits. This is the most common reason two screens show different numbers.

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