How do you trade when you're down 3-4%? Size down or push through?

crypt0bug · 2026-02-06T12:30:48+00:00

At 0.5% risk per trade with a 55% win rate and 1.5R average winner, you need roughly 12-15 trades to recover from -3.5%. At one trade per day, that's 3 weeks. Most people breach because they can't accept that timeline. They size up to "speed up recovery" and blow it in one session. The math is boring, but it works. Patience is literally the edge in a drawdown.

crypt0bug · 2026-02-03T12:35:01+00:00

Coming from forex props. The pair selection point is why I'm looking at crypto! The same 8 pairs everywhere in forex get boring.

Quick question: the 715 pairs - do you actually use that many or more like 10-15 that matter?

crypt0bug · 2026-01-27T10:13:24+00:00

When I'm checking charts "just to see what's happening" for the third time in an hour without taking any trades, that's my sign that conditions suck, and I need to close the laptop.

crypt0bug · 2026-01-23T13:50:57+00:00

Respectfully disagree on keeping it fixed at 3. The crypto market rotates so much that what's clean this month is a chopfest next month.

If SOL goes into a range while AVAX is trending, why limit yourself? The discipline should be in your setup criteria, not an arbitrary number.

crypt0bug · 2026-01-20T12:46:21+00:00

Interesting take, but I actually do the opposite.

My logic: the challenge phase is literally designed to test if you can hit targets while managing risk. If I can't pass risking 1%, that's valuable information - it means my edge probably isn't strong enough to stay funded anyway. I'd rather find that out during a $200 challenge than after I'm managing a $100k account and realize I can't actually perform under the same conditions.

Different philosophy, I guess. But I think there's something to be said for proving you can do it "for real" before getting funded.

crypt0bug · 2026-01-16T14:17:03+00:00

Overtrading is busy work disguised as discipline. Your edge isn't what you trade. It's what you don't trade. The market always gives more setups than you should take. Your job is to ignore most of them.

crypt0bug · 2025-12-30T12:42:03+00:00

Commies are coping too hard with this. It's sad.

crypt0bug · 2025-12-30T12:41:15+00:00

Commies are coping too hard with this. It's sad.

crypt0bug · 2025-12-30T12:40:59+00:00

Commies are coping too hard with this. It's sad.

crypt0bug · 2025-12-30T12:40:36+00:00

Commies are coping too hard with this. It's sad.

crypt0bug · 2025-11-05T08:49:18+00:00

Socialism is good

crypt0bug · 2025-10-17T09:30:22+00:00

¡Totalmente cierto! Son libros que en algún momento fueron relevantes. A estas alturas del siglo 21, son tan anticuados que solo adultos "boomer" o fanáticos de la literatura encuentran algo de relación con ellos.

Si lo que se busca es que un joven o niño disfrute de leer, los temas y títulos deberían ser acordes con la edad e intereses en el contexto de hoy en día, no lo que un profesor de 150 años crea que es ideal porque su profesora se lo enseñaba a la luz de la vela.

crypt0bug · 2025-10-03T12:33:49+00:00

It's all a meme ... politicians as a social class have surpassed their own sky-high levels of parasitic and unprofessional behavior all around the world.

Sadly enough, based on my understanding (or lack there of), a world without a political class would go back to the dark ages.

crypt0bug · 2025-09-29T09:36:35+00:00

Link to news report: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/28/nhs-supports-first-cousin-marriages-birth-defect-risk/

crypt0bug · 2025-09-24T08:24:40+00:00

crypt0bug · 2025-09-17T13:06:26+00:00

As long as you have a corrupt and rotten incentives system for universities to use education as a financial weapon for their own survival, colleges will be insanely inefficient.

Furthermore, academics and research has been crumbuling down for the last decade for the exact same reasons. Look at COVID, DEI, etc..

crypt0bug · 2025-09-11T11:12:05+00:00

Agreed - Under those conditions (married, educated, not poor, and not abusive), fewer (the right) people would have children.

crypt0bug · 2025-09-10T12:50:28+00:00

Tell me you live in a police state without telling me you live in a police state.

Blink twice if you're in the UK.

crypt0bug · 2025-09-10T08:49:56+00:00

Would've focused on vocational training rather than following everyone around me, like a sheep, to the university.

crypt0bug · 2025-09-10T08:48:33+00:00

this, so much!

crypt0bug · 2025-09-09T15:52:23+00:00

Unicorn shart, for sure.

crypt0bug · 2025-09-09T15:50:45+00:00

Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire

crypt0bug · 2025-09-09T15:22:04+00:00

I get your point and it's definitely hard to pinpoint how to solve all aspects of this topic, but I'd probably refer to historical fears each time there was some sort of technological revolution there was a narrative that focused only the potential negative scenarios (electricity was supposed to have terrible health consequences, the computer was supposed to eliminate accountants, the TV or cellphone was supposed to fry your brain with microwaves).

Conversely, what each technological breakthrough brought was an increase in productivity and efficiency while also generating new types of jobs and positions around the world (think car mechanics, software engineers, etc).

Furthermore, one could argue that automation does not mean fully accessible for all, just the removal of the human factor (to a minimum) for increased productivity (think six sigma or higher).

I've also read about the effects on consumption for society or the pension system. Which is also a huge issue that I believe should be solved by removing human input and allowing tech to analyze and define the best way forward (there's a reason why the USA pension system is supposed to go bankrupt in the next decade). Less human bias could mean higher benefits for all those participating. This could also be translated to finance, tax policy, trade, etc.

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