Guided path · Intermediate

Risk Management Mastery

Position sizing, stops, drawdown and the account-protection habits that experienced traders build first.

  • ✓ 10 lessons in order
  • ✓ About 40 minutes
  • ✓ Progress tracked in MarketPro
  • ✓ Free to follow

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The lessons, in order

A path is the academy's answer to "where do I start". The order is deliberate: each lesson assumes the ones above it, which is why reading them this way works better than picking at a category list. In the app the path tracks how far through you are and what comes next.

  1. Position Sizing How to turn an account balance, a risk percentage and a stop distance into a lot size you can hold without flinching. Intermediate4 min
  2. Stop Losses Where a stop loss belongs, why it has to be decided before entry, and the one habit that turns a small planned loss into a large… Intermediate4 min
  3. Risk/Reward Ratios Risk/reward is half of an equation, and the half on its own tells you nothing about whether a strategy makes money. Intermediate4 min
  4. Account Risk Vs Trade Risk Trade risk is what one position costs if it fails. Account risk is what everything open costs if they fail together, and it is… Intermediate4 min
  5. Understanding Drawdown Maximum drawdown is the most honest number in any track record, including your own, because it tells you what the bad stretch… Intermediate4 min
  6. Risk of Ruin and Why It Matters A strategy with a genuine positive edge can still lose everything, because expectancy is an average and ruin is a path. Intermediate4 min
  7. Setting a Daily or Weekly Loss Limit Per-trade risk protects you from a bad trade. A daily loss limit protects you from the decisions that follow three of them. Intermediate4 min
  8. Trailing Stops Explained Every trailing stop trades one cost for another: exiting early on a pullback, or giving back more when the move finally reverses. Intermediate4 min
  9. Take Profit Placement Strategies The stop decides what a trade costs when you are wrong. The target decides what it pays when you are right, and it is the one… Intermediate4 min
  10. Emotional Discipline and Trading Plans The person deciding at 3pm with an open loss is not the one who wrote the rules on Sunday, and asking them to argue it out live… Intermediate4 min

What it draws on

This path pulls from 1 category: risk management. Each of those pages lists its full set of lessons if you would rather go deep on one subject than move across several.

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