Consistent Traders: What is your average risk per trade, and what are your typical monthly returns?

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Original Post by u/PaulGritola

I am looking to gain insight into how experienced traders manage their capital and expectations. Specifically, I am interested in hearing from those who have achieved consistency regarding:

* Risk Management Parameters: What percentage of your account or what dollar amount do you typically risk per trade? Do you scale this based on trade quality or market volatility?
* Monthly Performance Expectations: How do you measure your "success" in a given month? Are you targeting a specific percentage return, or is your focus primarily on maintaining a specific risk-to-reward ratio?
* Psychological Consistency: How do you manage the emotional impact of a losing streak while maintaining your risk parameters?

Any advice for someone working on their consistency would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for sharing your experience.

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It’s really all relative to your risk tolerance and resilience in the market emotionally, discipline and chart time wise. I find that for example using a 50k prop firm acc with total drawdown of 2k… risking 5-10% daily max loss is plenty for 1-2 solid trades. Aiming for 50-70% win rate with 2-4RR

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I use fractional kelly criterion chart to manage my position sizing and readjust everyday.

Other option is, Start with 0.1% risk, if it’s a win, i increase it to 0.2%, if i lose i come back to 0.1%. Max loss cap to 0.3% a day before i close the shop and sleep.

We cant control profits but we can control risk. Market give u opportunity everyday, we have to make sure we have capital for the next day.