As traders, we are professional risk managers and therefore, it is our job to eliminate as much risk as possible. This can be done in various ways, such as risking only 1% of our account size, being cautious of correlation risk, position sizing correctly and more.
In this lesson, Irek explains why the 1% rule is the most important risk management technique that we have within Trading MasterClass. Oftentimes traders will blow their entire accounts because they risk too much. Follow the 1% rule that Irek explains in this lesson, and only scale up to 2% risk ...
Capital partitioning is optional.
In simple terms: You have $50,000.00 worth of capital. You put $25,000.00 of that into your trading account, and the other $25,000.00 into a safe, liquid investment. You then risk 2% on each trade. This means you’re only risking half of the account, but tradin...
Correlation risk is important - and goes hand in hand with capital preservation. For example, say the Tech sector is presenting 5 different stocks for a short. If you choose to execute all 5 positions, that would be risking 5%. Instead, you can eliminate the correlation risk, by choosing to execu...
