Performance Metric
Largest Loss — Definition & Example
The single biggest loss — a critical diagnostic for risk management discipline.
Largest loss tells you the worst single outcome the strategy has produced. A strategy where the largest loss is 3-5x the average loss often indicates ignored stop-losses or position-size blowouts. A well-disciplined strategy should have largest loss within roughly 1.5x of the average loss — if not, risk management is the highest-leverage thing to fix.
Example
Average loss is ₹800; largest loss is ₹5,000. The 6x ratio strongly suggests one or more stop-losses were ignored or position size was wrong on that trade.
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