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The Importance of Risk Management
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What this lesson covers
A profitable strategy in the hands of a trader with poor risk habits still ends in a lost account. This lesson explains why risk management is the part of trading that decides whether you are still here in a year. It works through how a run of ordinary losses becomes fatal when position sizes are inconsistent, why recovering from a large drawdown is mathematically much harder than avoiding one, and how a single oversized trade can undo months of careful work. It then sets out the principles professionals actually follow: fixed risk per trade, defined loss limits, and a plan for the bad days as well as the good ones. On a funded account, where a drawdown breach ends everything, this discipline is what makes growth possible.