<![CDATA[basics thread - ask your beginner questions here]]>for beginners and anyone fuzzy on the mechanics. orders, leverage, margin, lot sizes, sessions, risk. ask here instead of cluttering the broker threads.

one thing before you ask anything else: risk per trade. if you take away ONE thing from this whole forum let it be "dont risk more than 1-2% of your account on a single trade". more people die from sizing than from bad entries. ok go, no dumb questions here (well, some, but ask anyway)

]]>https://forum.forexroasted.com/topic/168/basics-thread-ask-your-beginner-questions-hereRSS for NodeSat, 06 Jun 2026 01:27:40 GMTWed, 01 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to basics thread - ask your beginner questions here on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:15:00 GMT]]>1-2%? where is the fun in that. (this is sarcasm please listen to them)

]]>https://forum.forexroasted.com/post/215https://forum.forexroasted.com/post/215Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:15:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to basics thread - ask your beginner questions here on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:10:00 GMT]]>current balance, recalculated each trade. so as you grow you risk more in dollars but same %, as you lose you risk less in dollars. it auto-shrinks your size during a losing streak which is exactly what saves you

]]>https://forum.forexroasted.com/post/214https://forum.forexroasted.com/post/214Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:10:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to basics thread - ask your beginner questions here on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:25:00 GMT]]>1-2% of what tho, the deposit or the current balance? does it change as i win/lose

]]>https://forum.forexroasted.com/post/213https://forum.forexroasted.com/post/213Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:25:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to basics thread - ask your beginner questions here on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:40:00 GMT]]>1-2% rule is the single most important sentence on this forum. you can have a mediocre strategy and survive with good sizing, or a great strategy and blow up with bad sizing. sizing first, everything else later

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