Most accounts are not lost on a bad trade. They are lost on the trades that come after it. You take a stop. Then another one. The daily loss is already on the screen, and the thought comes: "one more trade to get it back". One becomes three, the size goes up, and a day that should have closed at -200 closes at -800. Sometimes it is a week of work. Sometimes it is a funded account. This is not a strategy problem. It is a risk management problem. Every serious trader has a daily loss limit, but a