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One plan card for every account.

Type each account’s limits once. Each card gives the risk per attempt and the size from your stop, worked from that account’s own numbers.

$250.00Risk per attempt
3 contractsSize per attempt

Risk per attempt is $250.00. The daily limit split over 4 is $250.00 and the room split over 4 is $375.00. The daily limit is the smaller, so it sets the risk.

One contract at a 10 point stop risks $50.00. The risk would allow 5 contracts, and this account allows 3 contracts, so the size is 3 contracts, risking $150.00 per attempt.

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Arithmetic on the numbers you type. It does not know how your trades will go.

· the formulas on this page

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How it works

What it reads, and how it is computed.

What it reads

Per card: a label you choose, the daily loss limit in dollars, the drawdown room left in dollars (the distance from your balance to the floor, as you read it today), the most contracts the account allows, the attempts you allow yourself today, your in points and the dollar value of one point for one contract.

How it is computed

Risk per attempt = min(daily limit ÷ attempts, room ÷ attempts)

size = floor(risk per attempt ÷ (stop × value of one point)), capped at the contracts allowed, and BELOW ONE when it comes to less than one.

Worked example: a daily limit of $1,000.00 over 4 attempts is $250.00, and room of $1,500.00 over 4 is $375.00. The smaller is $250.00. One contract at a 10 point stop with $5.00 a point risks $50.00, so $250.00 ÷ $50.00 = 5 and the floor is 5. The account allows 3, so the size is 3 contracts, risking $150.00 per attempt. At a $50.00 the same stop risks $500.00 a contract, which is over $250.00, so the card would say BELOW ONE and that a stop of 5 points or less would fit one contract.

Why that information matters

With more than one account open, the easy slip is sizing one account from another account’s limits. A card per account keeps the daily limit, the room left and the cap side by side, so the size you take on each is the one its own numbers allow.

What it does not tell you

Your real room left, which only your program’s own dashboard knows, or whether your program counts costs, open trades or a trailing floor in the numbers you typed. Read your program’s own, current rules. It does not know how your trades will go. This is arithmetic, not advice.

Questions

Plan cards, answered.

Why one card per account?

Each account has its own daily limit, its own room left and its own contract cap. A card keeps those numbers together, so the size you take on one account is never worked out from another account’s numbers.

Which number sets the risk per attempt?

The smaller of the two splits. On the example card the daily limit of $1,000.00 over 4 attempts is $250.00 and the room of $1,500.00 over 4 is $375.00, so the risk per attempt is $250.00.

Where are my cards kept?

In this browser only, under the name te_plan_cards. Clearing site data or using a private window removes them. Export all as JSON keeps a copy as a file on your device, and Import reads it back.

What does BELOW ONE mean?

One contract at your stop risks more than the risk per attempt. The card says by how much and the widest stop that would fit one contract. The size is never rounded up to make it fit.

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