How Much Do You Risk Per Trade?

There really is no one answer to this. Personally, for small account size I'm willing to take a bit more risk to get things going. 10% hard stop with actual loss being more around 5-7℅. As the account grows im not increasing the lot size so my risk is coming back down and I'll probably settle at a 5℅ hard stop with actual loss being more like 2-3℅. If my account gets larger still then in happy to bring that down. Please take note that I don't let a losing trade roll until it hits my hard stop. I often clip it quite early if it doesn't work out so I rarely hit the 10℅ hard stop unless something unexpected happens.

One problem I had with 1-2℅ risk on a small account was psychology. It wasn't enough money that I was afraid to lose and it wasn't enough money that a good trade was meaningful in terms of dollars. Given enough capital less risk is always better. However for the little guy with a small deposit I think it's OK to take some bigger risk early on to get things going IF you feel you have at least some skill. If you don't know what your doing at all maybe 1-2℅ is better so the account lasts a bit longer and provides more opportunity to learn.

Additionally, I'm a conservative trader. I trade 1 pair 1 open trade at a time and I only trade the london + new York session. I'm out early afternoon sometimes earlier. I avoid big news, in particular anything to do with central banks. If I can score a couple good winners a week I'm happy.


Good luck.

0.75% - 1.25 %

Not comfortable with more

1-2.5% depend on smoothness of the market .. (guess thats a psycology thing) ;P

3-5% depending on how well I can analyze the market.

If I am honest, about 2-4% per trade

2%, not more unless there's a damn good reason for risking more.

Sometimes I risk 5%, but now I'm trying to minimize that percent, as all the experienced traders do in such a way. Yes, it's all about risk management. Maybe I shoud reduce the figure to 1% or even less.

My risk depends on strength of the trend. If I see that trand is strong enough and I can enter a profitable long-time trade, I use big leverage and can risk with 40% of my depo. In any other cases I prefer to stay calm and not to take big risks. 4-5% is the ideal percentage for me.

i will advice u not take more then 5% risk of ur account otherwise u have a big problem to cover your loss if yourr any trade hit SL.

Now the account is king. You want to protect it so I don't advocate risking 10% at all if you are new, or if the account is around even (starting balance), is in the red or only merely in front. My first 10% trade took place when I was already up over 23%.

since I only have a small fraction of my capital in my account, I can reload if I need to, so I risk more of my account than 1 or 2%. But when I was having more trouble, yes, it was 5% or less so I could trade the smallest size and still "practice" trading. Also, the risk according to a stop assumes that it will be filled accurately, also, if you are holding thru the low volume times where the spread widens, etc., it is a much more complex risk formula, if at all possible to determine it....

The alternative of this would to use stops however this way avoids risks such as the stop being slipped or the trader making an order entry error, they can only lose a certain amount

Relate-able ,usually risk 1% but go above when there is enough reasons to do so .

1%

Not trying to be impolite, but if you need to ask that question, you should be trading demo at no more than 0.5% per trade. It will take years to get 3 months profitable in a row in demo. Then start cash at 0.5% per trade. It will probably take more years to become consistently profitable with cash. Even then, most pro traders trade 1% per trade or less.

Never Risk more than you are ready to loose. So basically for a beginning trader you should start a 1 % or less if your balance allows it. Once you start making profit and feel more comfortable start increasing it slowly. But I would hardly go over 5% per trade.

I guess we should take that amount of risk which we can afford to loose. Successful traders focuses more on building right approach which lessen the risks associated with their invested capital.

The answers you receive on this post are fairly meaningless without the context of the performance of each trader.

As an example, if I traded 90% success, with a minimum risk:reward of 5, then I would certainly be trading a large portion of my account, perhaps 20% or more, and concievably this would be good money management

0.5-1%

0.00-2.00%.

If I had millions or billions of US dollars in my account I would certainly risk way less than that.