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What changes when trading stops being a single account with a single strategy: risk across a book, several systems at once, and the administrative side nobody covers.

PROFESSIONAL
  • 5 lessons
  • 20 topics
  • ~1.8 hrs
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By the end of this track

You can run more than one strategy without their risks colliding, and keep records that survive scrutiny.

What this track covers

Risk at the account level

Per-trade risk stops being the binding constraint once there is more than one trade.

01

Portfolio-Level Risk

24 min4 topics

Budgeting risk across everything open at once, rather than one trade at a time.

  • A budget, then allocations
  • Exposure by driver
  • Breach rules
  • Rebalancing a book of trades
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02

Running Several Strategies at Once

24 min4 topics

Why uncorrelated systems help, how to tell whether yours are, and what to do when they are not.

  • Diversification that is real
  • Measuring correlation between systems
  • Allocating between them
  • Retirement criteria
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Trading as a business

The parts that are administration rather than trading, and cost people accounts anyway.

03

Prop Firms and Evaluation Rules

24 min4 topics

How evaluations are structured, which rules actually fail people, and what the economics look like from both sides.

  • How an evaluation is structured
  • Daily loss limits are the hard part
  • Sizing for the rule, not the target
  • The economics of the fee
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04

Record Keeping and Reporting

18 min4 topics

What to keep, for how long, and in what form — including the questions a tax authority would ask.

  • What to keep and for how long
  • Reconciling to statements
  • Separating the accounts
  • When to ask a professional
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05

Scaling an Account Without Blowing It Up

20 min4 topics

Adding size on evidence, and the reason most accounts fail on the way up rather than on the way down.

  • Criteria before size
  • Step sizes you can reverse
  • What changes at larger size
  • Withdrawing, and why it matters
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5 lessons · ~1.8 hrs