Trading plan — full lessons
Planning the trade, practising the decision, and sticking to it.
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Trading plan
Signals & data
Paper trading, stock scanners, and the one decision that comes before any of it: discipline over prediction. You can't see every punch coming, but you can decide how many you'll take and which ones you block. Two signals off the same board — one paid in eight trading days, one never did — and the plan was the difference.
Risk & sizing
One trade sized right can't knock you out. Five of the same trade can. Position sizing across the whole book: portfolio heat, correlation, concentration versus diversification, and sizing to conviction without going past the cap.
Exits & selling
Everyone tells you to use a stop loss. Nobody tells you which one. The stop menu: a trailing stop, a measured price stop and a stop under support — and what each one has cost, measured on our own record.
Risk & sizing
Four numbers exist before you ever click the buy, and the price you pay is the fifth. Your R — the most a trade is allowed to hurt — comes from your account, not from the stock. Then the stop, then 1R, 2R and 3R measured off it, and the share count falls out of a single division. The entry is the last number, not the first.
Risk & sizing
You can be right about the company, right about the direction, and still lose money. Three quiet account-drainers, walked through on a real historical chart: oversized positions, no stop (or a random one), and hoping a loser eventually comes back.
Risk & sizing
Why size, not stock picks, decides whether an account survives.
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