Best practices for Stop Loss placement and Risk Management?

[Isaac Uriel Arenas Caldera]

I'd like to open a discussion about risk management and stop loss placement.

A few questions I'd like to discuss:

1. Do you define your SL based on market structure or do you prefer a fixed/ATR-based approach?

2. How do you handle position sizing — fixed lot, fixed risk % per trade, or something more dynamic?

3. Do you use trailing stops, and if so, at what point do you activate them?

4. How do you approach the relationship between SL, TP and your strategy's statistical edge?

[Oleksandr Medviediev]

Isaac Uriel Arenas Caldera:

I'd like to open a discussion about risk management and stop loss placement.

A few questions I'd like to discuss:

1. Do you define your SL based on market structure or do you prefer a fixed/ATR-based approach?

2. How do you handle position sizing — fixed lot, fixed risk % per trade, or something more dynamic?

3. Do you use trailing stops, and if so, at what point do you activate them?

4. How do you approach the relationship between SL, TP and your strategy's statistical edge?

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