Risk Management
Stops, position size and the math that keeps losses survivable.
- Margin, Leverage and Liquidation Price on Traders Portal
How leverage, margin required and margin level work on Traders Portal, what happens at stop-out under cross margin, and how to estimate your own liquidation price. - Setting SL/TP and Trailing Stops on Traders Portal
How to set a stop loss and take profit on Traders Portal as a price or a USDT amount, edit or remove them on open trades, and trail your stop by hand. - Placing Market, Limit and Stop Orders on Traders Portal
How to place market, limit and stop orders on Traders Portal: direction, size in USDT or lots, leverage, TP / SL, and the summary to check before you confirm. - Scaling In/Out, Trailing Stops and Partial Take-Profit
How to build and reduce positions in pieces, bank partial profits and trail a stop by hand on Traders Portal, with worked USDT examples and the trade-offs of each technique. - Managing Leverage Like a Pro: Isolated vs Cross Margin
How isolated and cross margin differ, why Traders Portal uses account-wide cross margin, and how to control leverage with position size, free margin and a stop on every trade. - Advanced Risk: Drawdown, Expectancy, Kelly (and Why Not Full Kelly)
The math behind long-term risk: how drawdowns compound, how to measure a strategy's expectancy, what the Kelly formula says, and why most traders risk far less than it suggests. - Hedging and Correlation Across Crypto, Gold and Stocks
How correlation turns several trades into one bet, what direct and cross hedges really do, what they cost, and how to check your exposure across crypto, gold and stocks. - Funding/Overnight Fees, Swaps and Trading Costs
What a trade really costs: the spread, the trade fee, the daily swap and slippage, how swaps differ from crypto funding rates, and a worked cost example in USDT. - Risk/Reward Ratio and Win Rate: The Math of Profitability
How the risk/reward ratio and win rate work together, the break-even win rate for any ratio, expectancy, and how trading costs shift the numbers. - Position Sizing: The 1–2% Rule and Calculating Lot Size
How to size every trade from the amount you are willing to lose: the 1–2% rule, the position size formula, and step-by-step lot sizes for Bitcoin and gold. - Volume and Volatility: ATR, Bollinger Bands
How to read volume, measure volatility with ATR and Bollinger Bands, and use both to set stop distances and position sizes that fit the market. - Common Beginner Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Ten mistakes new traders make again and again, from trading without a stop loss to misreading lots and order types, with worked USDT examples and a simple fix for each. - Your First Trade on Traders Portal: Step-by-Step
A complete walkthrough of one small BTC/USDT trade: choosing a size, setting leverage and a stop loss in USDT, reading the order summary, then managing and closing the trade. - Liquidation and Margin Calls: How to Avoid Them
What margin calls and stop-outs really are, how your margin level is worked out in USDT, how to estimate your own stop-out price, and the habits that keep you clear. - Stop Loss and Take Profit: Your First Safety Net
How stop loss and take profit orders close a trade for you, where traders place them, how to size a position from your stop, and why a stop can still slip in fast markets. - Order Types Explained: Market, Limit, Stop
Market orders fill now, limit orders wait for a better price, and stop orders wait for the price to break through a level. Learn when each one fills and what it costs you. - Bid, Ask, Spread and Why They Matter
Every market shows two prices. Learn what the Bid and Ask mean, how the spread becomes a cost on each trade, when it widens, and how it can trigger your stops.