Prop trading module · lesson 5 of 5

Challenge psychology

Pass a challenge without a rule break: know your room to every limit before entry.

5 min · 7 steps

  1. Step 1 · Risk

    Risk per trade is set to fit the daily limit.

    At 1% risk and a 5% limit, 5 stops in a row use up the limit.

    These numbers are an example. Take your limit and risk from your own rules.

    Stops in a row up to the firm's limitscheme
  2. Step 2 · Get it back

    Same candle: a new entry to get it back.

    BTC 15m, Dec 8, 2025: the stop is hit. On that candle's close a new short from 91 661 at 2× size, and it was stopped out at 08:45 too.

    A scenario on real candles: entries, stops, and times come from the chart, and the behavior is an example, not a real person's trade.

    BTC· 15m · Dec 8, 2025scenario · Binance candles
    06:0006:4507:3008:151×2×
    lossget it backsizing up
  3. Step 3 · Sizing up

    Sizing up breaks the firm's limit.

    Three real stops with sizing up give −6R, deeper than the firm's −5R limit.

    BTC· 15m · Dec 8, 2025scenario · Binance candles
    06:0007:0008:0009:0010:001×2×3×
    lossget it backsizing up
    The same three stopsscheme
  4. Step 4 · Work it out

    How much room do three stops in a row leave?

    Example: risk above plan and three stops in a row in a day. How much is left to the daily limit?

    • Firm's daily limit$5 000
    • Risk per trade1.5%, which is $1 500
    • Three stops in a row−$4 500

    Practice on the chart

    This one is a calculation task: pick an answer from the options and the lesson checks it by calculation.

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  5. Step 5 · The stop-out rule

    Set the stop-out rule in advance, below the limit.

    A pause after a run of 2 stops kicks in before the firm's limit: −2R against −5R.

    The Pact in settings stores these limits and checks them against your journal, and you decide them before the session.

    Your own stop-outscheme
  6. Step 6 · Find it yourself

    Where's the revenge entry?

    BTC 15m, Dec 8, 2025. Tap the candle where “get it back” beat the plan.

    Practice on the chart

    This is a Find it yourself task: tap a candle or a level, and the lesson tells you right away if you got it.

    Create an accountThis step unlocks after sign-up. Your progress is saved.
    BTC· 15m · Dec 8, 2025scenario · Binance candles
    06:0007:0008:0009:0010:001×2×3×
    lossget it backsizing up
  7. Step 7 · Rule

    Set the limit on stops in a row in advance.

    to your Pact · checked

    A run of 2 stops: pause until tomorrow.

    Your Pact checks the series against the journal: a trade after the stop limit is a rule break, and your streak counts it.

    Limit on stops in a rowscheme

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