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Lot size
- 17 Trading Systems What 0.01 Lot of Gold Means Now: Exposure, Margin On a standard MetaTrader 5 gold contract, 0.01 lot is
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Why your stop loss costs more than you planned
Many manual traders set a stop loss of, say, 30 points
1 November 2026 #Risk Management, spread
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Trading Strategies
A lot size that rounds up to one, and a minimum
My lot sizer floored a size onto the symbol's step
31 October 2026 #Lot size, position sizing
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Trading Systems
1% is not 1%: why the minimum lot quietly breaks
Most of us size trades the same way: risk 1% of the
29 October 2026 #xauusd, Risk Management
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Trading Systems
How to size a trade from your risk in MetaTrader
It is easy to choose a stop loss first and then pick a
29 October 2026 #Risk Management, Lot size
- 57 Trading Strategies Tick value is not a constant I keep coming back to one thing about a fixed stop: it
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Trading Systems
TravaRisco Trade Manager v2 user guide: draggable
This guide shows how to install the panel, open a trade
19 October 2026 #Risk Management, MT5
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Trading Systems
Zentriq Trade Manager — Official User Manual & Quick
15 October 2026 #Risk Management, Lot size
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Trading Systems
Easy Trade Executor: set the lot from your risk
14 October 2026 #Risk Management, MT5
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Trading Strategies
The Settings That Wiped the Account in Our Own
Every EA has a setting at which the backtest ends near
11 October 2026 #expert advisor, Lot size
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Trading Strategies
One Step Up the Risk Dropdown: How Much Return and
Our EAs have a four-step risk dropdown: Defensive
11 October 2026 #expert advisor, profit factor
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Trading Systems
Why Position-Size Math Needs a Rounding Step, Not
The arithmetic behind position sizing looks simple
1 October 2026 #Risk Management, Lot size
- 110 Trading Strategies Leverage Does Not Set Your Risk: Margin, Margin Buyers ask whether an EA "needs 1:500", or whether 1:30
- 30 Trading Strategies News trading: why I enter in layers instead of one Every news trader knows the moment: NFP or CPI is about
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Trading Systems
Position Size From the Stop, Not From a Gut
Most position-sizing mistakes are not about the risk
23 September 2026 #xauusd, Risk Management
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Trading Strategies
How to Read a Published Forward Account: The Order
A published forward account is the most useful thing a
17 September 2026 #demo account, Lot size
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Trading Strategies
Pick the Drawdown You Can Actually Hold, Not the
Almost every EA that gets switched off was switched off
16 September 2026 #Lot size, position sizing
- 144 Trading Strategies Minimum Lot, Leverage and the Account Size That Two traders can run the same EA with the same settings
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Trading Systems
PropSizer setup guide: the free lot calculator with
8 September 2026 #Risk Management, metatrader 5
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219
Trading Systems
From Stop Loss to Position Size: A Practical Risk
6 September 2026 #Risk Management, money management
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Trading Systems
Why an MQL5 Signal May Copy Differently on Your
3 September 2026 #copy trading, Lot size
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Trading Systems
How to work out your lot size from your stop loss
Lot size is not a fixed answer for a currency pair. It
28 August 2026 #Risk Management, money management
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Trading Strategies
What RiskPercent Actually Controls in an EA — and
RiskPercent looks like the simplest input in any EA: a
28 August 2026 #money management, Lot size
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Trading Systems
The Lot Size Math Most Traders Skip
25 August 2026 #Risk Management, MT5
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Trading Systems
Finish the trade before you open it, your stop and
George Soros is quoted at the front of Swissquote's
23 August 2026 #Risk Management, money management
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Trading Systems
How to Calculate Position Size in MetaTrader 5
16 August 2026 #Risk Management, metatrader 5
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153
Trading Systems
Why AccountBalance() Is Wrong for Multi-Position EAs
31 July 2026 #Risk Management, expert advisor
- 146 Trading Ideas Fixed lot or auto lot? One gold strategy under two
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Trading Systems
Three lot size bugs that survive every backtest
20 July 2026 #Risk Management, expert advisor
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Trading Systems
How to Calculate Lot Size for a Fixed Risk Percent in
13 July 2026 #Risk Management, money management