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Re: The 1% Rule Isn't Optional
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2026 11:38 am
by PropScalpDesk
Funded lower than personal is the right hierarchy. Losing the seat is the real risk; the fee is just a line item.
Personal near 1%, evals and funded around half — same band I use. Frequency plus fat R is how accounts die without a legendary blow-up.
Re: The 1% Rule Isn't Optional
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2026 12:43 am
by FXS Prop Desk
The frequency trap is the clearest way to explain the 1% rule to someone who thinks it is overcautious. A scalper taking eight or ten trades a day sees in a single month the number of trades a swing trader sees in a year, so the losing streak that is "rare" on paper turns up on a Tuesday. One addition to the backward sizing point: the stop distance should come from structure, and the lot size from the stop, never the reverse. If the lot is chosen first, the stop gets squeezed to fit, and the 1% becomes an illusion that only holds until the first spike.