Skip to main content

Risk Metrics

The chance that your investment outcome will be a substantial loss of potential energy.

Context

Trading

  • Protocol Risk
  • Counterparty Risk
  • Exchange Risk

What is the most important question you could ask yourself to make progress?

Questions

Which metric type — leading indicator, lagging indicator, or health signal — is most commonly confused with the others in business performance analysis?

  • At what measurement frequency does tracking this metric produce anxiety that interferes with the behavior it's designed to improve?
  • How do you distinguish a metric that's genuinely predictive of outcomes from one that's simply correlated with other metrics you already track?
  • Which metric would you stop tracking if you could only keep five — and does that reveal which metrics are actually load-bearing?