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Interactive course · Beginner

Size Every Trade: The stop defines the size. On any market, in any currency

Position size decides whether you last long enough to improve. Learn to size any trade from its stop: read the contract size and tick value, round down to the volume step, count costs, convert to rand, handle the minimum lot on a small account, and keep your total open risk in check. Eight short lessons with worked numbers on gold, US30, EURUSD, USDJPY and a synthetic index.

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  • 51 minutes in total
  • 70 activities
  • Opens in your account once your payment is approved
  • In Foundations: 7 courses for R699
What you'll be able to do

Learn it in minutes, then use it

Each lesson is a few short ideas, each one tried straight away in a small activity: a calculation, a chart to mark up, a trade to take or skip.

  • Set 1R from a structural stop and size so it equals a fixed % of the account
  • Find the value of a move on any market from MT5’s Specification
  • Turn a stop distance into a lot size, rounded down to the volume step
  • Include spread, commission and the rand exchange rate in your size
  • Know when even the minimum lot is too big, and skip instead of shrinking the stop
  • Count your total open risk, including correlated trades
Unit 1

The size comes from the stop

  1. Risk per trade, revisitedThe stop comes first, 1R is the distance to it, and the size makes 1R a fixed % of the account.6 min · 7 activities
  2. Value per point on any marketWhat a move is worth on 1 lot: contract size, tick size and tick value, market by market.7 min · 8 activities
  3. From stop distance to lot sizeThe formula, rounding down to the volume step, and worked examples on four markets.7 min · 8 activities
  4. Spreads and commissions in your sizeWhy costs make 1R bigger than it looks, and how to size for them.6 min · 8 activities
Unit 2

Real accounts, real limits

  1. Your account currencySizing dollar markets on a rand account, and why the exchange rate moves your risk.6 min · 9 activities
  2. Sizing on a small accountWhen even the minimum lot is more than your risk: skip the trade, never shrink the stop.6 min · 9 activities
  3. Total open riskPortfolio heat, correlated trades and what break-even does to your open risk.6 min · 9 activities
  4. When a trade is too big to takeA practice evening: size or skip across gold, US30, EURUSD and a rand account.7 min · 12 activities

General education, not financial advice. Examples use made-up numbers.

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Course group · 7 coursesFoundations

Start properly, from your first chart to your first planned trade.

  • Start Here: Trading Without the Hype (free)
  • Read the Chart, Plan the Trade
  • How Markets Work
  • Costs, Leverage and Margin
  • MT5 from Zero
  • Size Every Trade (this course)
  • The Pre-Trade Checklist
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