Tackle Today: Position Sizing
December 16, 2021
« Of Losses and LIARs. »
Traders,
One essential piece of your portfolio design is position sizing. As the name suggests, it refers to how much money you place in each position. The more capital devoted to a single trade, the more risk it carries.
Since losing trades are a reality, you must size small enough so that getting stopped out of a position doesn’t take too large of a toll on your financial and emotional capital. Losing 1% of your portfolio if you’re wrong is one thing. Losing 10% is quite another.
But proper sizing goes beyond risk per trade. You also must consider what happens during a losing streak. We use the acronym LIAR to represent Losses In A Row. All systems will experience LIARs, and your rules need to consider this. Otherwise, you’ll blow up your account or quit because the pain is too much to bear.
If you keep a trade journal, you’ll eventually get an idea of the typical losing streaks your system experiences. That, in turn, can help you size small enough to survive them.
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