How Professional Traders Size Positions — The Exact Math
📉⚖️ Professional traders never risk more than 1% per trade. Here is exactly why. Most beginners treat the market like a casino, throwing percentages of their total balance at $ETH or $RENDER based on "gut feeling." I did the same thing back when I lost $5,400. I thought I was trading, but I was just gambling with my rent money. The shift happened when I stopped looking at leverage as a tool for quick wealth and started viewing it as a math problem involving the distance to my stop loss. The rule is simple: never risk more than 1% of your account on one trade. If you have a $1,000 account, your maximum risk per trade is $10. If you are day trading $ETH and your setup requires a stop loss 2% below your entry, you don’t just...