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Drawdowns & losing streaks: surviving the bad runs

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Even a strategy that wins 55% of the time will regularly lose 5 to 8 trades in a row. That is just maths. Traders do not blow up because they have a losing streak; they blow up because they increase size, break rules or quit a good system in the middle of one.

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