We need trailing stops...
we need risk per trade and total risk on the portfolio....
Not exact matches
If you're relatively new or have just begun
trading live, you'll probably
need to
risk less
per trade than someone with 10 years live account
trading experience.
You
need to define the 1R dollar
risk per trade that you are comfortable with potentially losing on any given
trade, and never exceed that amount.
The two keys to money management are funding your account only with money you really don't
need, and not
risking more than you care to lose
per trade.
Your
risk per trade is a very important dollar figure that YOU
need to come up with based on your personal circumstances which will encompass a variety of different variables.
If you lose 50 % of your account, you
need to make a 100 % gain on it just to recover that loss, and
risking 2 %
per trade is not how a professional would recover from such a loss, because it would take virtually forever.