Does a wider stop mean a bigger loss? No.
Short · Risk & sizing · October 12, 2026
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The stop's distance belongs to the stock. The loss belongs to you — one or two percent of your account. A ten dollar stop under a hundred dollar entry with two hundred and fifty at risk buys twenty-five shares, and stopped out that's one percent. All in, the same stop costs ten.
The lesson in writing
Does a wider stop mean a bigger loss? No.
The stop's distance belongs to the stock. The loss belongs to you — one or two percent of your account. That's it.
What it is
Those are two different jobs, and people run them together. Where the stop goes is a fact about the name: how far it moves on an ordinary day. What it costs you is a decision you made about your account.
How it's worked out
Say the ATRs put your stop at ten dollars, just under a hundred dollar entry. Two hundred and fifty dollars at risk — one percent of twenty-five thousand — buys you twenty-five shares. You get stopped out: one percent.
All in, that same stop costs you ten percent. The stop didn't change. The size did.
And that's why one or two percent: losses don't come back even. Lose ten, you need eleven to get back. Lose twenty-five, you need thirty-three. Lose half, you need a hundred percent.
Where Olympia calculates it
Olympia calculates it where you log a trade: the shares off your risk, and the floor that gets kept.
Once a trade pays, the win gets locked in. On the Weekly signals you're aiming at thirteen percent and keeping ten, and the stop rides up behind each new high — you or your broker move it.
Safe going in, safe on the account, the win kept — all decided before you're in, when you're thinking clear.
Example numbers, not a member's: a $10 stop under a $100 entry, $250 at risk on a $25,000 account, in Olympia's I'm In window. The Weekly aim and kept floor are that lane's measured contract. Arithmetic on those inputs, not a forecast.
