Trading emotions
Revenge trading and tilt: the loss that becomes four losses
One bad trade produces an emotional state in which the next decisions are worse. How tilt escalates, and the only intervention that reliably stops it.
6 min read
Research / Tag
Risk management
Deciding what a trade may cost before deciding what it might make.
10 articles
Tagged “Risk management”
Position sizing
Sizing down: the one lever that fixes most psychology problems
Hesitation, early exits, moved stops, revenge trades. Nearly all of them shrink when the position does. Why size is the primary psychological tool, not just a risk one.
6 min read
Drawdown
The psychology of a drawdown
The strategy is fine and the account is down. What that period does to judgement, and the decisions that turn an ordinary drawdown into a serious one.
6 min read
Position sizing
Leverage, margin and why position sizing comes first
Leverage decides how much margin a trade ties up. Position size decides whether a losing streak ends your account. They are not the same lever, and only one of them is yours to set on every trade.
7 min read
Margin
Margin calls and stop-outs, explained before you meet one
Margin level is the number the platform watches. What it measures, InnoMP's 30% weekday and 100% weekend liquidation thresholds, and the sizing habits that keep both permanently out of reach.
6 min read
Risk management
Weekend gaps: why Monday opens where it does
CFD markets close for the weekend; the world that prices them does not. Where gap risk comes from, why InnoMP raises the weekend liquidation threshold, and how to size for both.
5 min read
Market hours
Trading the economic calendar without getting whipsawed
Scheduled releases compress a day of volatility into ninety seconds. A pre-event checklist and a sizing rule matter more than a view on the number itself.
6 min read
Risk-reward
Risk-reward ratio: using it without fooling yourself
R-multiples make strategies comparable and journals honest — but only when the reward is as real as the risk. Where the ratio genuinely helps, and the two ways it gets gamed.
6 min read
Stop-loss
Stop losses: placement is the decision, not presence
Having a stop is table stakes. Where it sits determines whether it protects the account or simply donates to the market on schedule.
6 min read
Drawdown
Reading your own drawdown: normal variance or broken strategy?
Every strategy has losing runs. Telling an ordinary one apart from a genuine failure is the difference between abandoning something that worked and persisting with something that stopped.
6 min read
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