A strategy is only as good as its last 100 trades. Maybe 200. The point is that past performance degrades, markets shift, and the edge you had six months ago might be a memory today. Strategy performance analysis is how you catch these changes before your account balance catches them for you.
ACE Portfolio Tracker gives you the tools to evaluate, compare and monitor strategy performance continuously. Not a one time check after a blowout. Ongoing, systematic, data driven assessment that tells you which strategies deserve more capital, which ones need adjustment, and which ones should be retired.
What You Will Find Here
Why Strategy Analysis Matters
Most traders develop a strategy, backtest it, and go live. Then they never systematically evaluate it again. They might notice when it is losing money, but by then the drawdown has already done its damage. Continuous strategy analysis catches problems early.
The key metrics for strategy evaluation are profit factor, maximum drawdown, expectancy and consistency. But you also need to track how these metrics change over time. A declining profit factor is a warning sign even if the strategy is still technically profitable. An increasing drawdown beyond historical norms suggests something has changed.
Comparing Strategies
When you run multiple strategies, comparison is essential. Which one produces the best risk adjusted returns? Which one has the smoothest equity curve? Which one diversifies your portfolio most effectively?
ACE Portfolio Tracker normalises strategy performance so comparisons are fair. Different account sizes, different markets, different trade frequencies. Everything gets standardised so you are comparing edge quality, not account balance.
The backtest vs live comparison is equally important. If your live results are significantly worse than your backtest, you need to understand why. Slippage, latency, emotional overrides, or genuine edge degradation. Each has a different fix.
See What Your Strategies Are Really Doing
Head to head comparison. Normalised metrics. The truth about every strategy in your arsenal.
Get Started FreeExecution Quality
A great strategy with poor execution is a mediocre result. Execution analysis measures the gap between your planned trade and what actually happened. Did you enter where you planned? Did you exit at your target or bail early? Did slippage eat your edge?
The entry vs exit analysis breaks this down further. Some traders have excellent entries but terrible exits. Others have great exits but enter too late or too early. Knowing which side of the trade needs work focuses your improvement efforts where they will have the most impact.
For vendor strategies and bots, execution analysis also reveals whether the signals are being copied accurately. If your results differ from the vendor's published performance, execution analysis shows exactly where the gap is.
Deep Dive Articles
Strategy Analysis
How to Analyse Trading Strategies
The complete framework for evaluating whether a strategy deserves your capital.
Compare Trading Strategies Side by Side
Head to head comparison with normalised metrics and risk adjusted returns.
Backtest vs Live Performance
Why backtest results differ from live trading and how to track the gap.
Strategy Optimisation Tracking
Track the impact of strategy changes over time without losing historical context.
Execution & Playbooks
How to Build a Trading Playbook
Create a structured playbook that defines your setups, rules and execution process.
Trade Execution Analysis
Measure how well you execute your planned trades versus what actually happens.
Entry vs Exit Analysis
Discover whether your entries or exits are costing you money.
Trade Management Metrics
Track how you manage trades after entry. Partial exits, stop adjustments and hold times.
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Analyse every strategy. Compare head to head. Allocate based on data.
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