Top 5 Risk Management Rules Every Trader Must Follow
Risk management is the foundation of successful trading. These five rules keep you in the game.
Risk management
A pre-set order that closes your position if price moves against you to a chosen level, capping the loss on a trade before it grows.
A stop loss is an instruction to exit a trade automatically when price reaches a level you chose in advance, so that a small loss does not become a large one. If you buy SBI at ₹800 and place a stop loss at ₹790, the stop triggers if the price falls to ₹790 and sells your shares, limiting the loss to about ₹10 per share plus slippage. Stops are placed with a trigger price and, for SL orders, a limit price; SL-M orders become market orders when triggered. The stop should sit where your trade idea is proven wrong, below a support or a recent low, not at an arbitrary rupee figure. It should be decided before entry and never moved further away once the trade is on. Stops do not fill at the trigger price in a gap. Even so, trading without one is how most large losses begin.
Risk management is the foundation of successful trading. These five rules keep you in the game.
VideoMargin is the money your broker blocks before it lets you trade. How much depends on whether you buy for delivery, trade intraday or take a futures or options position.
VideoLeverage makes a position bigger than your cash. The spread is the gap between the buy and sell price. One multiplies your results, the other quietly charges you on every trade.