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Risk Management 101: Position Sizing for Consistency
The fastest way to survive long enough to get good is to risk a small, fixed slice of your account on every trade. Here is the simple math.
Most accounts are not lost on bad entries — they are lost on oversized ones. Position sizing fixes that.
Fixed fractional risk
Risk a fixed percentage of your account per trade (commonly 0.5%–1%). Your position size then comes from the distance to your stop loss, not from how confident you feel.
The formula
Position size = (Account × Risk %) ÷ Stop distance
- Define your stop before you enter
- Keep risk constant across trades
- Let winners run further than losers
Consistency in risk creates consistency in results.
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