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[Mika]

If you are a stock trader, crypto trader, or forex trader, you might be spending a lot of time watching your computer screen all the while fulfilling your orders, and watching your assets gain value or lose value. However, that is not everything a trader should do. As a trader, you should also consider doing the following three things:

Calculate your risk tolerance level

Choose assets that match your risk tolerance level

Set a buy limit order that exactly matches your risk tolerance level

The key takeaway in these three risk management guidelines is knowing your risk tolerance level and buying assets that fall under your risk tolerance level.

Why do you need to know about risk management?

No matter what you are trading, trading is a risky business. That’s why risk management is important. Risk management means using strategies that help you not to lose a lot of money when the market is not favorable.

 

[Jasmine]

You can trade stocks, cryptos, or forex, but you need different set of skills to trade these assets. Trading is not all about buying when the market is down and selling when the market is high. Whether you are trading stocks, cryptos, or forex, you need to understand three things: one, signals, two, market position, and three, assets.

If you are trading stocks, you need to understand how the stock was performing in the past, how the company is performing in the market, what kind of policy the government is bring that might move the stock price.

If you are trading crypto, you need to understand the market cap and market cap rank of the asset, the historical data, use case, adoption in different countries (mainly influential countries), adoption by the private sectors and businesses, etc.

If you are trading forex, you need to understand the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) of the countries whose currencies you are trading.

 

[sincerem]

Their is no doubt to what you've said so far, when it comes to risk taken, crypto, forex, stocks are all assets full of risks. If we don't manage our risk and trade above what we can afford to lose we might suffer bitterness with time. Experience traders edge higher than the inexperienced traders due to their good risk management or risk tolerance level. They know when it is right to place an order, they don't rush to make a trade or trading above what they can afford to risk. But the so-called novice traders who doesn't want to learn, trade any amount due to greed, and they don't want to learn, they just want to earn this money so fast over night. That's the reason why most of them fail to hit the target and succumb to heartbreaking losses.

 

[Suba]

Thanks for the enlightenment on risk management tips for traders, but unfortunately you didn't explain or give an example of how to calculate the risk tolerance level, what percentage should I apply to the maximum risk if my capital is $10k, so that I can find out the maximum average loss per transaction for example one lot for each transaction. How can I find the right level to set a buy limit order,