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Risk Management for Prop Traders
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What this lesson covers
On a funded account, risk management is not the boring part of the strategy. It is the strategy, because a drawdown limit ends the account whatever your edge looks like on paper. This lesson covers position sizing worked out from your balance and your risk per trade rather than guessed, and shows how to keep every trade inside the same fixed percentage. It then covers stop placement, maximum risk per day, and how risk to reward ratios change what your win rate needs to be. A large part of the lesson is about fitting all of this inside a firm's rules without gutting the strategy that got you funded. The aim is a shift in identity, from a trader chasing returns to one whose first job is protecting capital.