Round-trip trading cost

Round-trip cost is everything a trade costs from entry to exit: the spread twice, the fee twice, slippage, and funding for every hour held, all on notional. It is usually bigger than the fee table suggests; the card against the ledger finds it, and Mochatrade fees and funding give the inputs.

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