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Risk per trade: the 1-2% rule

Risk and the mind: how accounts survive3 min read
What you learn in 3 minutesDeciding the money you can lose on one trade before deciding anything else. Everything downstream — size, stop, target — follows from that number.
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Risk per trade: the 1-2% rule — schematic diagram, not a price quote
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