The October crypto pnl report is now live. It covers the full futures trading activity of the SunCrypto community for October 2026: 70 trades, 41 profitable, 29 stop-loss hits, a 58.57% win rate, and a monthly ROI of +469.27%.
After September’s record month, October was a more demanding one. Fewer trades, a lower win rate, and a smaller average winner all pulled the headline number down. What held up was the risk side of the book. Not one loss went beyond -22.17%, which is tighter than September’s worst trade and the narrowest loss range of the last three monthly reports.
October crypto PNL report at a glance
|
Metric |
Result |
| Monthly ROI |
+469.27% |
|
Total Trades |
70 |
| Profitable Trades |
41 |
|
Stoploss Hits |
29 |
| Win Rate |
+58.57% |
|
Average Return Per Trade |
+6.70% |
| Average Win |
+24.01% |
|
Average Loss |
-17.77% |
| Active Trading Days |
28 (no trades on 10, 11, and 18 Oct) |
The 41 profitable trades include one breakeven: an INJ/USDT long on 15 October that closed at 0%. The report also opens with a 29 September INJ/USDT long (+1.00%) that is counted in October’s totals.
Winners totalled +984.61% against stop-loss losses of -515.34%. The average win of +24.01% against an average loss of -17.77% gives a win-to-loss ratio of about 1.35x. That is lower than September’s 1.56x, and it explains most of the drop in ROI: winners were smaller, and 13 of the 41 non-losing trades closed below +10%.
Top-performing trades of the month
|
Date |
Pair | Position | Leverage | PNL |
| 13 Oct | TAO/USDT | SHORT | 10x |
+69.36% |
|
20 Oct |
NEAR/USDT | LONG | 10x | +66.76% |
| 8 Oct | TAO/USDT | SHORT | 10x |
+65.13% |
|
20 Oct |
INJ/USDT | LONG | 10x | +58.42% |
| 8 Oct | ZRO/USDT | SHORT | 10x |
+56.00% |
|
23 Oct |
FIL/USDT | SHORT | 10x | +52.56% |
| 1 Oct | BTC/USDT | LONG | 30x |
+50.26% |
|
28 Oct |
HYPE/USDT | SHORT | 10x | +45.15% |
| 14 Oct | HYPE/USDT | SHORT | 10x |
+43.25% |
|
15 Oct |
INJ/USDT | SHORT | 10x |
+32.04% |
The best trade of the month was a TAO/USDT short at +69.36% on 13 October, below September’s best of +77.25% and August’s +77.80%. Seven trades returned 50% or more, and 22 trades returned 20% or more.
Seven of the top ten were shorts, and nine of the ten ran at 10x. The exception was the 1 October BTC/USDT long at 30x, which opened the month with +50.26%.
TAO was the standout. All three TAO trades won, two of them above +65%, for a combined +156.99%.
Losses worth nothing
|
Date |
Pair | Position | PNL |
| 26 Oct | HYPE/USDT | SHORT |
-22.17% |
|
1 Oct |
HYPE/USDT | LONG | -21.81% |
| 15 Oct | LIT/USDT | SHORT |
-21.75% |
|
9 Oct |
ZRO/USDT | LONG | -21.46% |
| 12 Oct | ONDO/USDT | LONG |
-21.23% |
|
6 Oct |
WAL/USDT | LONG | -21.13% |
| 16 Oct | XMR/USDT | LONG |
-20.97% |
|
26 Oct |
PENDLE/USDT | SHORT |
-20.74% |
All 29 stoploss hits fell between -10.10% and -22.17%. After September’s -38.75% outlier, October’s worst loss sits comfortably inside the -28% band that earlier reports cited. Ten losses were larger than 20%, and none came close to breaking the pattern.
The expensive stretches came from clusters rather than single trades:
- 12 October: -53.27% across three stopped-out trades (BTC short, ALGO long, ONDO long).
- 9 October: -52.09% across three stopped-out longs (ZRO, BTC, TIA).
- 26 October: -42.91% from HYPE and PENDLE shorts.
- 16 October: -37.81% across six trades, with only BTC (+30.16%) and XAU (+5.16%) in profit.
The month’s total cost of risk was -515.34% across 29 trades. The winners covered it nearly twice over.
Pair-by-pair breakdown
|
Pair |
Trades | Win-Loss | Total ROI |
| TAO/USDT | 3 | 3-0 |
+156.99% |
|
INJ/USDT |
8 | 7-1* | +125.92% |
| HYPE/USDT | 5 | 3-2 |
+63.51% |
|
NEAR/USDT |
3 | 2-1 | +53.82% |
| FIL/USDT | 1 | 1-0 |
+52.56% |
|
BTC/USDT |
9 | 4-5 | +38.13% |
| LDO/USDT | 3 | 2-1 |
+11.22% |
|
XAU/USDT |
3 | 2-1 | -5.91% |
| ONDO/USDT | 4 | 2-2 |
-13.64% |
|
ALGO/USDT |
2 | 0-2 |
-33.26% |
*Includes one breakeven trade.
- TAO and INJ led the month. TAO won all three trades. INJ was the most active altcoin with eight trades: six winners, one breakeven, and one stoploss, for +125.92%. Its best trades were a +58.42% long on 20 October and a +32.04% short on 15 October.
- HYPE was a swing pair. Two longs and shorts stopped out at -21.81% and -22.17%, while three shorts returned +43.25%, +19.09%, and +45.15%.
- BTC/USDT was the most-traded pair again but with a mixed record. Nine trades went 4-5 for +38.13%. The four winners came from the 30x long (+50.26%), a 20x long (+30.16%), a 10x short (+13.26%), and a 25x long (+11.28%). Five of the six BTC trades at 20x were stopped out, for a net -36.67% at that leverage. It was the clearest weak spot of the month.
- ALGO lost both trades (-33.26%), and ONDO split evenly but finished negative at -13.64%.
Key strategy insights from the October crypto pnl report
- Shorts carried the month. The 35 short trades won 24 times (68.6%) for +449.15%, about 96% of the month’s ROI. The 35 longs won only 17 times (48.6%) and returned just +20.12%. That is the reverse of September, when longs generated about two-thirds of the return. Eighteen of the 29 stop-loss hits were longs.
- 10x was the core of the book. Forty-three trades at 10x won 65.1% of the time and returned +514.49%, which is more than the entire monthly ROI. Leverage tiers outside 10x netted about -45% combined.
- 20x had a difficult month. The nine trades at 20x won 44.4% and lost a net -22.70%, compared with 77.8% and +257.27% in September. Most of those were BTC trades in a month when BTC kept stopping out.
- Low leverage was not safer in October. The ten trades at 5x produced four non-losing results, but three of them closed at +1.00%, 0%, and +2.87%. The six stopped trades cost -107.66%, for a net of -78.51%. With returns measured on margin, small moves at low leverage translate into small gains, while stoploss hits still take a full-sized bite.
- 20 October was the best day. Three trades (INJ long +58.42%, NEAR long +66.76%, XMR long +7.50%) returned +132.68%. The next best day was 8 October at +115.43%, built on TAO, ZRO, and AAVE shorts.
- Winners were smaller, not rarer. The win rate matched August’s (58.57% vs 58.49%), but the average win fell from +28.69% to +24.01%. Thirteen winners finished below +10%, including four below +1.5%.
- Risk control was the strongest part of the report. An average loss of -17.77% and a worst loss of -22.17% are the lowest figures of the last three months, which kept a sub-60% win rate profitable.
Week-by-week performance
|
Period |
Trades | Win-Loss | ROI |
| 29 Sep – 7 Oct | 19 | 12-7 |
71.58% |
|
8–14 Oct |
14 | 6-8 | 122.68% |
| 15–21 Oct | 21 | 14-7 |
211.89% |
|
22–28 Oct |
13 | 7-6 | 62.61% |
| 29–31 Oct | 3 | 2-1 |
0.51% |
Every week closed positive. The second week is a good example of why win rate and return can diverge: only 6 of 14 trades won, but TAO and ZRO shorts of +65.13%, +56.00%, and +69.36% more than covered eight stoplosses. The strongest stretch was 15–21 October, which delivered 45% of the month’s ROI.
The two halves of the month finished almost level: +252.61% from 38 trades on 1–15 October and +215.66% from 31 trades on 16–31 October.
How does October compare to September’s PnL?
|
Metric |
August 2026 | September 2026 | October 2026 |
| Total Trades | 110 | 113 |
70 |
|
Profitable Trades |
62 | 78 | 41 |
| Stoploss Hits | 44 | 35 |
29 |
|
Monthly ROI |
907.24% | 1828.22% | 469.27% |
| Win Rate | 58.49% | 69.03% |
58.57% |
|
Avg Return Per Trade |
0.0825 | 30-12 | 6.70% |
| Average Win | 0.2869 | 30-12 |
24.01% |
|
Average Loss |
-19.80% | -21.11% | -17.77% |
| Best Single Trade | 0.778 | 30-12 |
69.36% |
|
Most Traded Pair |
BTC/USDT | BTC/USDT |
BTC/USDT |
ROI fell about 74% from September, and trade count fell 38%. Part of the drop comes from taking fewer trades, but the larger share comes from a lower return per trade: +6.70% against +16.18%.
October’s win rate is almost identical to August’s. The month looks like a return to a baseline after a standout September, with the notable difference that losses were smaller and the short side did nearly all the work.
Final Thoughts
The October crypto pnl report ends with a +469.27% ROI across 70 trades and a 58.57% win rate. It was a lower-return month than the previous two, and the numbers show where it came from: the short book was strong, the long book was flat, and BTC at 20x leverage was the main drag.
Three points are worth carrying into November:
- Short-side strength is only half the picture. The long book returned +20.12% from 35 trades. If market conditions keep favoring one direction, a book this one-sided leans heavily on a single call.
- BTC at 20x needs a clear setup. Five of six stoplosses at that leverage came from range-type sessions, and they accounted for most of the month’s largest clusters of losses.
- Risk control did its job. With 29 stop-loss hits, the month still finished at +469.27%, because no loss grew beyond -22.17% and the winners covered the losers by nearly two to one.
The October crypto pnl report repeats the lesson that runs through every monthly report: consistency comes from capped risk on every trade, not from avoiding losses.
Disclaimer: Crypto products and NFTs are unregulated and can be highly risky. There may be no regulatory recourse for any loss arising from such transactions. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Leveraged futures trading carries a substantial risk of loss.