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Position Sizing and Risk Management

The part most beginners skip: deciding how much to risk on each idea, where to be wrong and how to survive a losing streak.

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What you will learn

  • Size a position from account size, risk percentage and stop distance
  • Set a maximum loss per trade and per day
  • Understand risk-reward and why win rate is not enough
  • Estimate how a drawdown affects recovery

Who it is for

New and developing traders who want a risk framework before strategy.

Course outline

  1. Module 1: Risk per trade
    • Fixed-fractional position sizing
    • Stop distance and share count
  2. Module 2: Risk-reward and expectancy
    • Reward-to-risk ratios
    • Win rate vs expectancy
  3. Module 3: Drawdowns
    • The arithmetic of recovering losses
    • Daily and weekly loss limits
  4. Module 4: Putting it together
    • A written risk plan
    • Reviewing risk after each trade

Educational content only. Nothing in this course is investment advice, and trading involves a risk of loss.

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