One percent per trade sounds safe until eight of them are open in the same sector. This adds the risk up.
Position sizing is done one trade at a time, but the account loses money all at once. Heat is the sum of what every open stop would cost if the day went against all of them together — which, in a correlated book, is the day that happens.
Enter the account size.
Count the positions you have open.
Set the risk you took on each.
Say how many could move together.
Short, practical answers. Trade-offs explained, no advice framing.
Shares from account size, risk percent and stop distance, so the loss is decided before the entry.
R-multiples from entry, stop and target, plus the win rate each ratio needs to break even.
What a steady return does to an account over years, with or without monthly deposits.