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title: "Precision — Trading Analytics for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Which figures follow the run’s scale and which have a fixed one — bcmath truncates, and ratios divide at full precision first."
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# Precision

\->scale() (or the scale config key) sets the decimal places of every amount: P&L, volume, value, commission, their averages, the expectancy’s and risk/reward ratio’s average win and loss, and the drawdown. bcmath truncates rather than rounds, so each figure is truncated to its scale as it is stored; ratios are divided at a higher working scale first, so an operand below the result’s precision — a loss of 0.00005 BTC, a deviation of a few basis points — still counts. Ratios and percentages are reported at a fixed scale, whatever the run’s:

| Figures | Decimal places |
| --- | --- |
| volume, value, commission, P&L and their averages, expectancy value / averageWin / averageLoss, riskRewardRatio averageWin / averageLoss, maxDrawdown value / equity / peak | the run’s scale (default 10) |
| counts, wins, streaks | 0 |
| frequency | 1 |
| wins->winRatio, profitFactor | 2 |
| cumulativeReturn (percent), duration (seconds) | 2 |
| expectancy->winRate / lossRate, winRateByPeriod->rates | 4 |
| riskRewardRatio->value, maxDrawdown->percentage, sharpeRatio, sortinoRatio | 4 |
| riskAdjustedReturns meanReturn / standardDeviation / downsideDeviation | 10 |

Each trade’s own numbers are exact: Trade::make(), fromArray() and fromRow() keep every amount at its own decimal places (at least 10), and its P&L and value at entry (size × open price) are computed without truncation, so the run’s scale truncates them only once, into its results. Building trades shows a high-precision example.

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