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quote but if you've got same risk and same equilibrium, then you cant answer this query. Its neccessary to understand the equity just to determine when both have same chance or not. If you trade 1 lot or 0,1 lot and make 100 usd by same risk appetite, then you have also same reduction risk with both trades, so just 1/10 reduction risk with 1 lot contrary to the 0,1 lot trade. So for the example the outcome is: the two will continue same period, before the account size is not too modest, that the complete used leverage of the lot transaction can kill the account over the weekend gap, in large...
Nope, Trader2 will continue much longer since he knows well how much he can afford to lose if trade goes wrong and goals for large R :R whilst Trader1 is targeting for 10-20 pips profit and don't even care where to put SL(look at OP's TE)... However, possibly OP is superpro trader and don't need to take care about SL since he is always perfect.
Also Trader2 will make 10x more profits then Trader1... So it is no wonder that he last longer . Moreover,Trader2 may have lower hit rate and perform better than Trader1... In other words, Trader1 may be improved in trading but still perform worse than Trader2.Paradox.