An initial 5% loss will reduce a balance more than a subsequent 5% gain so there's an inherent bias towards losing money when trading.

$10,000 * 0.95 = $9,500

$9,500 * 1.05 = $9,975

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Think I see what you did. I was assuming something like 1% stack bet daily and run simulation daily, do again. Where the return is normally distributed (except floor of -100%/total loss) and put back in stack. Still prob need to think on it more