Tag: position sizing

How much do day traders make? What real account data shows

Most day traders make nothing. They lose money. In one large study of real accounts, 97% of Brazilians who day traded futures for at least 300 days…

Risk of ruin: How bet size decides if your account survives

Risk of ruin is the chance that a run of losses takes your account down to a point you can’t come back from. I simulated 1,000 trades, 10,000 times…

Risk reward ratio: Why it means nothing without the win rate

The risk reward ratio compares what a trade can lose, from the entry to the stop, with what it can make, from the entry to the target. Risk $1 to…

NVDA support and resistance at a record high: 5 levels to watch

FOMO trading: What 34 Bitcoin rallies since 2014 show

FOMO trading means buying because a price is running away from you, not because your plan says buy. The fear of missing out makes you enter late…

Trading journal template: Free Excel sheet and how to use it

A trading journal template is a spreadsheet with one row per trade: entry, stop, target, size, exit, the result in dollars and in R, and a few honest…