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Dec 26, 2022Liked by Retail Capital Trading

I'm loving your articles!! I do have a question! how would you go about optimizing risk management for funded trader programs and making sure the risk of ruin is the least

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Great work, been really closely tracking my statistics on various trades within my system so I can know which setups I want to size up for. I had been using a standard size for every trade which really doesn’t make sense. But I couldn’t justify arbitrarily setting size on the fly either. So really getting nerdy with the data is HUGE

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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Retail Capital Trading

One of my favourites articles. It's really eyes opening how betting size change trajectory of you equity curve.

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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Retail Capital Trading

Its my belief that Expected Value (called EV or expectancy sometimes) is the one true metric which all systems should be judged.

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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Retail Capital Trading

Very helpful, visuals were great. One thing it can’t account for is the mental barrier of playing fixed percentage once your portfolio grows.

Newer traders struggle when trade size grows, may stop out quicker, etc when they see a big dollar loss even tho it may be only -5% on that trade. But that’s probably a different topic.

Helpful graphs tho, thanks

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How would you factor in risk/reward for each trade in your simulations?

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Good article

Good information

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Great write up thanks! Really clarified some things for me.

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