Table of Contents Introduction Why Big Losses Properly Funding an Account Losses are unavoidable Overtrading Rebounding after a loss Overleverage Risk per trade Fixed
Dollar risk mistakes Risk per sector Position Sizing is the Holy Grail Changing Risk Parameters Changes Everything Hard Stops & Trailing Stocks Summation
Not exact matches
Risking a fixed
dollar amount per trade is a big
mistake.
Since you can trade various numbers of lots per pip, your actual
risk is not calculated in pips, but in
dollars, many traders make this
mistake.
Maybe more facts of the case would make it sound more plausible, but for a case that would cost perhaps $ 75,000 of attorneys» fees and costs to litigate in the U.S. with no prospect of an award of those fees to you if you prevailed in the U.S. (except recovery of your filing fees, out of pocket costs and expert witness fees for things other than attorneys), and a
risk of paying the other side's expert witness costs if you lost, the provable harm would have to be in the many hundreds of thousands of
dollars and the
mistake would have to be very glaring before that kind of case would make sense to seriously consider bringing.
We see headlines about centralised exchanges making terrible
mistakes that cost customers millions of
dollars over and over again, and yet people continue to
risk their deposits in these unreliable organisations — likely because, until the introduction of peer - to - peer alternatives like localethereum and EtherDelta, centralised exchanges were the only viable choice.