When do you kill an unproductive trade ?
 

How much time do you give a trade to start before killing it ? (or how many hits ?)

Off course I sent enough hits to start the trade (according to their own rules)

You mean its not sending back?

no in most cases or send really bad quality traffic in other cases ...

As long as they are sending,usually a week

Give them a few days, if they don't cut it drop them.

Man that is too easy. When you are telling yourself "this is unfucking productive" Then you know. A week should be enough.

i agree a week should be enough time before killilng the trade...

I am curious what's a "productive trade"? How many percents?

i think he meant the ratio between hits in and clicks

i usualy leave it for 48 hours but if it is extremely unproductive i delete it right in start

Well I've built my own TGP Script and I gather a lot of stats:
-HitsIn
-HitsOut
-HitsUtil (hits sent by a trade partner that actually use my site)
-HitsHardLinks (hits sent by a trade partner that clicks on hardlinks)
-HitsBlindLinks (nb of blindlinks(Click out) generated by the users a trade partner sent me)
-HitsSponsors (hits sent that clicked on a sponsors)
-HitsReturns (nb of persons who were refered by a trade parner and who return to my site in the next 10 days)

So an unproductive trade can be a trade that send less than 90% (HitsIn/HitsOut) or it can be a 100%+ trade with no traffic using my site. Can Also be a trade that generate no clicks to sponsors etc.