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Generating $10,000 in monthly trading profits places heavy demands on small accounts. Examples illustrate the interrelationship between capital, the risk-reward ratio, and risk.
Read more: Learning to Trade: What Capital, Risk-Reward Ratio, and Time Mean
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Day trading or investing? The difference lies not only in the time horizon but also in costs, risk, statistics, and the amount of work involved.
Read more: Day trading or investing: Speed does not create wealth
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Position size determines the risk of loss for a trade. A simple calculation shows how the number of shares and the stop-loss relate to each other.
Read more: Calculate position size: The risk begins before entry
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A strategy can still lose money even if 7 out of 10 trades are profitable. The evaluation takes into account profit, loss, costs, and expected value.
Read more: Hit rate: 7 out of 10 winning trades can mean losses
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Drawdown trading explained: Why losses must be recovered disproportionately and how losing streaks strain the account.
Read more: Drawdown Trading: Why a 20% Loss Requires a 25% Gain
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Overtrading increases costs and the error rate. Why too many trades worsen your statistics and how this shows up in your trading journal.
Read more: Overtrading: Why more trades worsen the result
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According to BaFin, turbo certificates caused heavy losses for private investors. Why rapid leverage is rarely suitable for wealth accumulation.
Read more: Turbo Certificates: When the stock market turns into a casino disguised as a brokerage account
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FOMO is one of the most expensive mistakes in trading. This article shows how Fear of Missing Out leads to frantic buying, poor entries, and unnecessary losses.
Read more: Too late, too hectic, too expensive: FOMO in trading destroys accounts
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Short selling seems like an elegant bet on falling prices and regularly makes headlines – from struggling banks to GameStop. This article explains in plain language how short selling works, what role brokers and securities lending actually play, which risks private investors often underestimate, and why short selling remains more of a tool for professionals.
Read more: Short selling: Betting on falling prices
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Tokenized assets are considered the next big trend in the capital markets. This article explains what "real-world assets on the blockchain" are, the role of regulations such as MiCA, DLT pilot regimes, and the German Securities Trading Act (eWpG), which asset classes are already being tokenized, and where the real opportunities and risks lie for private investors.
Read more: Tokenized Assets (RWA): The next big trend?