{"id":40837,"date":"2015-05-21T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=40837"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:45:11","slug":"ask-anything-a-system-to-increase-your-trading-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/ask-anything-a-system-to-increase-your-trading-risk","title":{"rendered":"Ask Anything: A System to Increase Your Trading Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have been trading on my own since March and after a few weeks of consistent results, I decided to increase my sizing and expand my Playbook with newer and different intraday plays. Despite the fact that I have the impression that my trading skills is improving, my results in terms of P&amp;L have deteriorated. Should I go back to my initial game plan or stay the course?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>@MikeBellafiore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On our desk we have a system for increasing and decreasing trader risk.\u00a0 Every ten days of good results and bad results risk can be adjusted.\u00a0 If you have ten days of good trading results you may ask our floor manager for an increase in your daily intraday stop loss and buying power.\u00a0 Your coach can also increase your size if they notice you are trading well.\u00a0 Finally at month end, all this is under review.<\/p>\n<p>In this video below I dive deeper into this system and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The expectations from traders in their first 8 weeks<\/li>\n<li>How many days of good trading before a trader gets more buying power<\/li>\n<li>Pushing yourself out of your comfort zone<\/li>\n<li>Developing a system for bumping yourself up and bumping yourself down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tf130.infusionsoft.com\/app\/linkClick\/22759\/043a63b7f18ace40\/10983651\/7976ca2c57a842a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" shape=\"rect\">video<\/a> helps you improve your trading skills.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wistia_embed\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/jjjoie6oju\" name=\"wistia_embed\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*no relevant positions<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.net\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trading on my own since March and after a few weeks of consistent results, I decided to increase my sizing and expand my Playbook with newer and different intraday plays. 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Should I go back to &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/ask-anything-a-system-to-increase-your-trading-risk\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1804,188,1545,38],"class_list":["post-40837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-increase","tag-risk","tag-system","tag-trading","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ask Anything: A System to Increase Your Trading Risk | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/ask-anything-a-system-to-increase-your-trading-risk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ask Anything: A System to Increase Your Trading Risk | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have been trading on my own since March and after a few weeks of consistent results, I decided to increase my sizing and expand my Playbook with newer and different intraday plays. 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