How Much Should You Risk Per Trade? The 1% Rule, Stop-Losses and the End of the $25,000 Day-Trading Minimum

You’ve watched a stock run for three days. Everyone online seems to be in it. You have $5,000 in your brokerage account, and it would take about ten seconds to put half of it into that one trade. Before you tap Buy, answer one question: if this goes wrong, how many dollars are you willing […]