Waterfall Mythos

US500 Disciplined Risk First Trading Semi-Automated

I trade the US500 (S&P 500) intraday us sessions with one priority above everything else: controlled, repeatable risk. The aim is steady, compounding growth, not headline grabbing spikes that blow up an account a month later.

Money management:

• Risk based sizing: every trade risks ~0.5% of the account. This is the fixed rule, not the stop distance or lot size. Stop width and position size adjust to keep risk constant, and size scales proportionally as the account grows.
• Scaled entries when risk allows: I open with a half position (~0.25% risk) to test the move, then add the second half to reach full size (~0.5% risk), but only if the stop is tight enough, or once the trade moves in my favor and I trail the stop to free up risk. On wider stop setups the half position already uses the full risk budget, so I hold and don't add. (At current account size this works out to roughly 0.1 then 0.2 lot.)
• Adding to winners only: never averaging into losing trades
• Only one position (one symbol) open at a time: no parallel trades, no cluster risk
• Hard stop loss on every trade, shared across tranches, no exceptions
• Target reward to risk typically around 1:1.5 to 1:2, though I let strong trades run further when the move and momentum justify it
• Daily loss limit: trading stops for the day after a 2% loss

What I never do:

• No martingale, no grid, no averaging down into losers
• No overleveraging: leverage 1:100, but risk per trade defines the exposure, not leverage

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