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Position sizing, stop placement, and the rules that keep one bad trade from becoming a blown account.
What the 1% rule actually means, why it exists, and how to calculate it correctly instead of just repeating the number without understanding it.
Risk of ruin explained in plain terms: the math behind account blowups, and why risking too much per trade is a cliff, not a slope.
Why a 50% loss needs a 100% gain to recover, and what that asymmetry means for how you should actually manage risk after a drawdown.
How to calculate your trading system's expectancy, why win rate alone is meaningless, and what a positive expectancy actually requires.
There's no universal 'good' risk/reward ratio. Here's how it actually interacts with your win rate, and how to find the number that works for your strategy.