How to manage risk percent I decided to bet?

Hi.

I am a new trader.

I have readed a lot of articles and I have seen a lot of videos about manual and automatic trading. I am a developer too, so I did my own expert (https://www.myfxbook.com/members/rpalacios/pnd-ea/634782). Last month it worked very good (about 30% gain). This week it is not going well, but it was my fault because I start playing with same EA on differents pairs at same time and I forgot to control the number of orders on each pair.

Well, the question is: How should a trader manage the risk percent? I mean, differents traders talk about differents risk percents, but usually it always talk about 5 - 10%.

So, how I have invest that 5%?
Should I calculate the numbers of lots that represents the 5% of my capital?
Or do I set the stoploss such way that the lossing trade represents that 5%?
Or do I trade inside the 5% of equity, no mather how many orders or lots I manage?

Thanks in advance for yours answers!

i think the best advice i can give you is stay away from multiple orders unless you are scaling out.

Hi,

Should I calculate the numbers of lots that represents the 5% of my capital? => So this depend how far is your SL

Or do I set the stoploss such way that the lossing trade represents that 5%? => I prefer to use a fix SL

Or do I trade inside the 5% of equity, no mather how many orders or lots I manage? I think so



This is what a use for one of my EA:


//___Parameters

extern bool Money_Management=true;
extern int RiskPercent=1;
extern double Lots=0.1;



//____ UTILITIES
// Automatic Lotsizing
  double LotsOptimized()
  {
   double lot=Lots;
  //---- select lot size
   if (Money_Management) lot=NormalizeDouble(MathFloor(AccountFreeMargin()*RiskPercent/100)/100,3);
   
  // lot at this point is number of standard lots
   return(lot);
  }



So Let's say the account is €1200 so Lotsize for any trades will be 0.12 whatever the SL.
I loose 10 pips so Account is now €1190, next trade will be 0.11.

Thanks for your answers!

Very helpful!

wait, are you talking about risk per trade? If yes, than 5% is too high, i'd say something about 1,5%, especially if you're using EA.

Right now, we are not using stoploss, we are operating in a price range using a scalping EA we did. We are basing the risk on equity. I mean, if 100*Equity/Balance is less than X%, let EA open more orders while OrdersTotal()<Y.
 
But, since Sep/01 things are not going well. On August EA won about $1000. But now, equity is $3000 under balance.

So, we tried differents stoploss strategies, but no one let EA grow up.

So, we believe that, apart from EA buy/sell wrong conditions, we have to define a practical stoploss.

That is why I want to know how experienced traders use to define stoploss strategies.