Risk

Risk management

The discipline of losing small so you survive to trade the good setups.

Risk management is the set of rules that cap what any trade, day or month can cost: a fixed fraction of equity per trade, a maximum total heat, a daily loss limit and a drawdown level that reduces size or stops trading.

It is the highest-value skill in trading because it is the only one that is fully within your control. Direction is uncertain on every trade; the amount at stake never is.

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Position sizingChoosing trade size so that the stop distance costs exactly your risk budget.Risk DrawdownThe decline from an account's peak to its subsequent low.Risk Portfolio heatThe total you would lose if every open stop were hit at once.Risk

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