If you have a trading system that you have historically tested your stock risk management ability and you are very confident of it performing well into the future then you could consider using 10 percent of your account per trade. This means you would have in the worst case scenario 7 to 9 losing trades before all your money disappears. Thus confidence is always the keyword for stock risk management.
Professional traders, fund managers and floor traders are well aware of the stock risk management left over after new traders come out with all guns blazing and are crushed by the juggernaut of the real world of trading. Meanwhile the professionals just keep plodding along risking their 1 percent to 2 percent of account and steadily building profits over time. This is very important in stock risk management.
Using the previous example of stock risk management let us say we are willing to lose a maximum of 10 percent of our trading capital we could equate this to having 100 dollars in your pocket in 10 dollars bills and losing one 10 dollars bill. You would not mind so much I imagine, but if you had a single hundred dollar bill and lost that you would be feeling pretty annoyed would not you, so for the sake of sanity we will assume we are ok with losing 10 percent of our trading capital. So this is another way of stock risk management.
