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Gestión del Capital·30 April 2026·6 min de lectura

Riesgoporoperación:lacifraquedecidetusupervivencia

Every strategy has losing streaks. Risk per trade decides whether you survive them. It is the most important number in trading and the one beginners never set.

The one and two percent conventions

Risking 1 percent per trade means ten straight losses cost about 10 percent of the account, unpleasant but recoverable. Risking 10 percent per trade makes the same streak fatal.

Streaks of five to ten losses are normal for good strategies. Your risk number must assume they will happen, because they will.

From risk to position size

Position size is calculated backwards from the stop: account size times risk percent, divided by stop distance. The stop defines the size, never the other way around.

If the calculated size feels too small to matter, the account is too small for that instrument, not a reason to widen risk.

Copying inherits the discipline

When you copy a managed strategy, this arithmetic is done for you on every position, scaled to your balance.

That built in sizing is a large part of why copied accounts survive periods that wash solo beginners.

Puntos clave

  • Set risk per trade before your first trade.
  • Position size derives from the stop, never from conviction.
  • Copy trading applies professional sizing automatically.
  • Trading leveraged products carries a high level of risk and can result in the loss of all invested capital. This article is educational and is not investment advice.