Riesgo, Retorno y Drawdown

Understand the core concepts of risk, return, and drawdown in trading. Learn how to manage risk effectively, analyze potential returns, and interpret drawdown f

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Part of: Risk Management

  • Methodology: Mixed
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: Riesgo, Retorno y Drawdown by Bfunded EA — watch the original

Strategy overview

Risk, return and drawdown are the three numbers almost any track record eventually gets reduced to. What the title of this entry does not say is that they are not the same kind of number: risk is chosen before the trade, return is measured after a period closes, and drawdown is neither chosen nor summarized — it is discovered along the way, as the deepest point the equity curve reached between two highs.

The source is "Riesgo, Retorno y Drawdown" from Bfunded EA, a Spanish-language channel whose name places the material in the funded-account and automated-system world. That context changes the weight of the third term. Outside it, drawdown is descriptive — a line in a report. Inside it, drawdown is typically a threshold: a level that closes the account when the equity path touches it, evaluated continuously rather than at the end of the period, and indifferent to whatever return would have followed. An expert advisor makes the situation sharper still, because its sizing is fixed in code before it ever meets the particular sequence of trades that will draw that path.

That is the asymmetry worth carrying away from the triad. Return depends only on where the curve starts and ends; drawdown depends on the order in which the same trades arrive, so a reshuffled sample can leave the return untouched and move the worst point substantially. A drawdown figure taken from one historical run is therefore an observation, not a ceiling. This page covers that concept and its source video: no entry or exit conditions were extracted here, because the video's subject is the frame a system is measured in rather than a setup to trade.

Topics

risk management · trading risk · return on investment · drawdown in trading · trading education · trading concepts · financial risk management · trading performance · risk reward ratio

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between risk, return and drawdown?

Risk is the exposure committed to a position, decided before the trade. Return is the net result over a period, measured from its endpoints. Drawdown is the largest peak-to-trough decline in account equity along the way — it describes the path between those endpoints rather than the endpoints themselves.

Why does drawdown carry more weight in a funded or prop account?

Because in that setting it is usually a contractual limit rather than a statistic. Daily and total drawdown caps are typically evaluated continuously against the equity curve, so breaching one can end the account regardless of what the strategy would have returned afterwards.

Can the order of trades change the maximum drawdown?

Yes. The same set of trades in a different sequence produces the same total return but a different maximum drawdown, because drawdown is a property of the path. This is why a drawdown observed on one historical sample is an observation from that ordering, not an upper bound on future ones.

Does this page include the entry and exit rules of a strategy?

No — the source video addresses how a system is measured rather than a specific setup, so there were no entry conditions to extract. Strategy Decoder catalogs video sources like this one and, where a video does define mechanical rules, extracts their structure so you can test it on TradingView.

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