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Trading · Intermediate

Risk and position sizing

The part that actually decides whether you survive. Expectancy, sizing, drawdown and ruin.

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14 lessons · ~144 min

Risk of ruin: the arithmetic nobody wants to do

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Expectancy: win rate, payoff and why they trade off

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Position sizing: fixed fractional and its consequences

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The Kelly criterion, and why full Kelly is a bad idea

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Stop losses: placement, invalidation and the cost of noise

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Volatility-adjusted sizing and normalising across instruments

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Correlation risk: the positions that are secretly one position

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Leverage: what it does to your distribution of outcomes

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Drawdown: depth, duration and the psychology of recovery

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Maximum adverse excursion and reading your own trades

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Portfolio heat and limiting total exposure

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Tail risk, fat tails and why normal distributions lie

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Risk management for gap risk and overnight exposure

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Building a written risk policy and holding yourself to it

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