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Position Size How to - Step 1

Today we start a series about risk management procedures for the active trader. We will work our way through a normal trading day and for the first step in our series we look at position size and how to come up with the correct one.

Very often traders look at a chart, find a pattern that they like and put in all they have. This is fine if the stock does what it is supposed to do but