Trading articles
Risk Management
Protect your capital and size every position with purpose. Stops, position sizing, exposure, drawdowns, and how to cut losers fast while letting winners run.
11 articles
Oct 11, 2026
How Many Stocks Should You Own? The Mistake That Can Cost You Your Biggest Winners
What William O'Neil, Mark Minervini, and the Market Wizards teach us about portfolio concentration, position sizing, cash management, and knowing when to stop trading.
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Portfolio Heat
- David Ryan
Jul 7, 2026
Position Size and Manage Risk Like a Market Wizard
Using Bruce Kovner’s stop-loss principle to plan the trade before the trade begins.
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- fundamental analysis
- Learn Trading
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
Jul 2, 2026
Why Great Traders Can Seem Bipolar in Choppy Markets
The best traders are not changing their minds because they are confused. They are changing their exposure because the market evidence has changed.
- Momentum Trading
- progressive exposure
- Learn Trading
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
May 19, 2026
Does O’Neil’s 8% Stop-Loss Rule Still Work Today?
A real trade example showing how the rule works when paired with proper position sizing.
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- learn to trade
- Finance Risk
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Position Sizing
- Risk Management
May 15, 2026
The 21 Mistakes That Quietly Destroy Trading Accounts
William O’Neil’s costly investing mistakes from How to Make Money in Stocks, and why fixing your errors may matter more than finding your next stock idea.
- growth stocks
- how to make money in stocks
- learn to trade
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading
Apr 30, 2026
The Importance of Low-Risk, High-Reward Setups in Trading
A Nasdaq-100 trade example on using multiple timeframes, progressive exposure, and financing risk to control downside while staying open to bigger upside
- Momentum Trading
- Learn Trading
- position trading
- Risk Management
- Stock Market
- Entry Setups
- Nasdaq-100
- futures trading
Feb 25, 2026
Most Traders Get Position Sizing Wrong. Here’s the Risk Management Fix.
How to align technical stops, position sizing, and portfolio exposure into a complete risk management framework
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- Trading Setups
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
Feb 19, 2026
Why Your Win Rate Is Lying to You
The uncomfortable truth about risk management, drawdowns, and why expectancy matters more than being right
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing
Jan 30, 2026
How Professionals Finance Risk and Why Most Traders Never Do
From base structure to partial sells, this is how great traders stop risking principal
- growth stocks
- Finance Risk
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading
- George Soros
- Growth Investing
- Risk Management
Jan 27, 2026
Why Great Investors Reject Diversification
What William O’Neil and Warren Buffett Agreed On That Most People Ignore
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Risk Management
- William O'Neil
- diversification
Jan 26, 2026
Every Trader Faces a Drawdown. The Ones Who Survive Know What to Do Next
Why drawdowns happen, how professionals survive them, and what to do when you are in one
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- Trading
- position trading
- psychology of trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing
- Risk Management