Notes
What we keep learning about account risk, prop-firm limits, and how all of it gets measured in MetaTrader 5.
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Correlation risk: three trades are not three risks
Correlation risk turns three small trades into a single large one. How to measure net exposure without maths, and which number actually needs the limit.
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Own account or funded: what actually changes
Own account or funded is not a question of capital. It is about what happens the day you have a bad day, and almost nobody frames it that way.
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Forex rollover time, and why your stop stops being your stop
At forex rollover time the spread widens and your stop can fill without price reaching it. What it is, when it happens and how to avoid it.
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The daily loss limit does not measure what you think
FTMO sets the daily loss limit floor from balance and checks equity against it; The5ers starts from the higher of the two. What it measures, and when.