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💡Risk Management for retail traders (+/- AI)

From the latest edition of Unvalidated Ideas:

Investing is one thing, trading is another. Trading the market is a three way knife fight with yourself (patience, judgement, emotions) and the biggest hedge funds and banks on Wall Street.

Once you survive the first couple rounds of the knife fight you learn the phrase "risk management". Firms have huge risk management teams, but the retail trader has no such luxury.

Brokers are all too happy to provide retail traders "education" but they stop short of risk management. Should you have scaled into your heavy stock position by shorting puts for downside protection? Millions, maybe even billions of dollars are lost by retail traders executing trades poorly.

Build a tool for retail traders to bring their risk management skills from zero to one.

(Read the rest in the latest edition!)

on October 24, 2022