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Risk Management
Risk Management for Traders
Marcus Adeyemi
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- Author
- Marcus Adeyemi
- Category
- Risk Management
- Pages
- 232
- Reading time
- ~5 h
- Level
- Intermediate
Risk Management
Risk Management for Traders
Position sizing, expectancy and account-level exposure
Risk Management for Traders is the arithmetic companion to every strategy book. It covers risk per trade, position sizing across instruments, stop placement logic, expectancy and the mathematics of drawdown and recovery.
Worked examples use round numbers so the calculations can be repeated by hand before they are automated in a spreadsheet.
What readers will learn
- How to convert a risk percentage into position size on any instrument
- Why stop placement is a structural decision, not a comfort decision
- How expectancy combines win rate and average reward
- How drawdown compounds and what recovery requires
- How to set daily, weekly and account-level exposure limits
Table of contents
- 1Risk Per Trade
- 2Position Sizing Arithmetic
- 3Stop Loss Placement
- 4Take Profit and Trade Management
- 5Risk to Reward and Expectancy
- 6Drawdown Mathematics
- 7Account-Level Rules
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