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Account risk on multiple open positions

  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 10, 2012 11:58pm Jul 10, 2012 11:58pm
If the amount you're willing to risk is 1% per trade then how many open trades is it safe to have open at any one time without risking margin call?
How much of your account would you have exposed at any one time with open positions?

Love to hear what you guys think.

Kind regards
  • #2
  • Jul 11, 2012 9:45am Jul 11, 2012 9:45am
Quoting Hayden
If the amount you're willing to risk is 1% per trade then how many open trades is it safe to have open at any one time without risking margin call?
How much of your account would you have exposed at any one time with open positions?

Love to hear what you guys think.

Kind regards
10% on multiple positions as a rule of thumb but it depends on the system, strike rate, etc.
  • #3
  • Jul 11, 2012 11:06am Jul 11, 2012 11:06am
Really depends on the correlation of your positions...
be honest with yourself....how many are EUR based, or GBP based, or USD based?

I wouldn't risk 10% on a bunch of averaged down EUR/USD positions, nor EUR/USD and EUR/JPY for example.
  • #4
  • Last Post: Jul 11, 2012 11:52am Jul 11, 2012 11:52am
I think this is where something like forex tester can help a lot because it records the dates of all your trades and then you can just create a pivot table or sort all your trades of all the pairs you tested by date and see what sort of drawdowns you get with trading multiple pairs.
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