Risk education
Risk first. Everything else second.
Accept the risk before you click: decide where you are wrong and how much you can lose before deciding what to trade. All calculators run in your browser; nothing is stored.
Position size calculator
Size = (equity × risk %) ÷ loss per unit at the stop. Why this works.
Risk / reward calculator
Check whether the payoff justifies your win rate. Expectancy explained.
Drawdown recovery table
Losses and gains are not symmetric. The gain needed to recover is loss ÷ (1 − loss).
| Drawdown | Gain needed to recover | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| −5% | +5.3% | |
| −10% | +11.1% | |
| −15% | +17.6% | |
| −20% | +25.0% | |
| −25% | +33.3% | |
| −30% | +42.9% | |
| −40% | +66.7% | |
| −50% | +100.0% | |
| −60% | +150.0% | |
| −75% | +300.0% | |
| −90% | +900.0% |
Bar scale capped at +300%.
Writing your risk rules
Write your own rules before you trade. These questions are a starting point.
Questions every rule set should answer
- What percent of equity can one trade lose?
- What daily or weekly loss ends trading for that period?
- How much total risk can be open at once?
- When does size get cut, and when does it come back?
- What is never allowed (no stop, averaging down losers, revenge trades)?
Losing streaks at different risk sizes
Math illustration, not performance: the share of an account left after consecutive full losses, ignoring fees, slippage, and gaps.
| Risk per trade | After 5 | After 10 | After 15 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5% | 97.5% | 95.1% | 92.8% |
| 1% | 95.1% | 90.4% | 86.0% |
| 2% | 90.4% | 81.7% | 73.9% |
| 5% | 77.4% | 59.9% | 46.3% |
Education only, not financial advice. This is a personal record of one trader’s decisions, including the mistakes. Trading crypto carries a real risk of losing money. Full disclaimer.