I think this reporting is actually a lagging indicator of sorts. I'm finding the volatility is picking up recently - the trades I'm getting with some of my algorithms are heading over 1%'s where over the past few months, it's been 0.5 to 1%...

This is without any tweaking in algorithms or other factors - just an anecdotal noticing by me that trades are resulting in a higher percentage of profit per trade. I probably should do some analysis of frequency of trades to see if there's any meat to my anecdotal impressions.