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Leverage, Margin and Staying Alive

The one mechanism that empties accounts, taken apart step by step — and the arithmetic that keeps you on the right side of it.

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Anyone who has seen 1:500 offered and is not sure what it does.
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Ao terminar, você vai conseguir

  • Explain what leverage gives you and what it does not
  • Work out the real leverage on a position, not the number on the account
  • Calculate the margin a trade needs before you take it
  • Read balance, equity and free margin and say what each one means
  • Say how far a position is from a margin call, and from a stop out
  • Set a size that cannot reach a stop out on one trade

14 documentos

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  1. Unidade 1

    What leverage is

    1. 01What Is Leverage7 min
    2. 02How to Calculate Real Leverage5 min
    3. 03What Is Notional Value5 min
  2. Unidade 2

    What it costs to hold open

    1. 04What Is Margin7 min
    2. 05How to Calculate the Margin a Trade Needs5 min
    3. 06What Is Balance, Equity and Free Margin6 min
  3. Unidade 3

    How an account dies

    1. 07What Is a Margin Call7 min
    2. 08What Is a Stop Out7 min
    3. 09What Is Drawdown6 min
    4. 10How Much Drawdown Is Normal5 min
  4. Unidade 4

    How to stay alive

    1. 11What Is Overleveraging5 min
    2. 12How to Avoid a Margin Call5 min
    3. 13What Is Risk of Ruin5 min
    4. 14How to Trade a Small Account Without Gambling5 min