{"id":3863,"date":"2021-01-27T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2021-01-27T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:30:10","slug":"year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always think in terms of $100,000 blocks. For each trade, I never risk more than 1% of my capital. That is how all my trading is conducted. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3864\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/year-in-review\/trading-account\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TRADING-ACCOUNT.png?fit=747%2C611&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"747,611\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TRADING ACCOUNT\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TRADING-ACCOUNT.png?fit=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TRADING-ACCOUNT.png?fit=660%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TRADING-ACCOUNT.png?resize=660%2C540\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TRADING-ACCOUNT.png?w=747&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TRADING-ACCOUNT.png?resize=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><br \/>\nI had my 100K trading blocks go from 100K to 160K last year. In the beginning of the year, I had a series of losers.\u00a0 The markets were choppy. This cost me nearly 40K per 100K block. As my account size decreases, so does my risk. This is called the Ritchie Rule.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ritchie Rule iPhone App\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVVqfVhP2ls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Risk management, risk management\u00a0 and more risk management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always think in terms of $100,000 blocks. For each trade, I never risk more than 1% of my capital. That is how all my trading is conducted. I had my 100K trading blocks go from 100K to 160K last year. In the beginning of the year, I had a series of losers.\u00a0 The markets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/year-in-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Year in Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wXzO-10j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}