Risk calculation (Market Order)

Created at 07 Oct 2020, 23:18
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paul-sing

Joined 07.10.2020

Risk calculation (Market Order)
07 Oct 2020, 23:18


My trading ist on the M15/M1, so it is very fast. I analyse on TradingView and copy my Stop loss from there. Then I quickly have to calculate my risk which is 0.5% in this case 500$.

So what I did was put the Stop loss in and then I modified the Lot size until it was around 500$ (517$) as you can see on the right of the screenshot.

After I placed the order the Loss is way higher in this case over 600$, which is extreme with the account size I trade live, and not only that but also my Stop Loss 1.1760 was modified to 1.17601.

Why is this what I did wrong??

I use 0.5% every trade and have a fix SL, so I want cTrader to tell me quickly what Lotsize I need for that EXAKT STOP LOSS and the EXAKT amount of RISK... NOT MORE NOT LESS... PLEASE HELP


@paul-sing
Replies

deon.jackson101
04 Feb 2021, 23:31

RE:

did you fix this 


@deon.jackson101