Position Sizing & Survival
The claim: That the way to grow $100 into millions is bigger, bolder bets.
Survive first. Risk a small, fixed slice per trade — and you stay in the game.
How it actually works
The opposite is true. The path from small to large is: never take a loss big enough to end you. Cap risk per trade at a fixed, small fraction of capital (near 0.5%).
Position size follows from three numbers — your risk budget, your stop distance, and your leverage — and nothing else. Our free calculator does exactly this math for all 11 markets.
We tested it
Also not a claim to disprove — it's sound risk mathematics, and it's the difference between traders who last and traders who blow up.
Every figure comes from this project's own out-of-sample walk-forward testing on real costs — the full research record is in the Lab.
What it teaches you
You control your loss, not your profit. Protect the downside relentlessly and let the rest take care of itself.
This one earns its place — sound math, honestly shown.
Put it to work — safely
Whatever you trade, the survivable part is the sizing. Use our free position-size & risk calculator to bound every trade before you take it, and read the live volatility state on the board.
Education, not advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to trade, or a claim about which direction a market will go — see Terms.