Survive the market: 20 trades
Twenty setups, honest odds. Skip the weak ones, size the strong ones — keep your account alive.
$1,000
The setup
Range breakout — betting the consolidation resolves upward
Historically wins about 48% of the time at 1.5:1 reward-to-risk.
Risk how much on this one?
What this tool actually tells you
A run of realistic trade setups with honest odds attached, where you choose which to take and which to skip. The lesson it's built to deliver is that survival comes from selectivity and sizing, not from prediction.
Every setup has a genuine win rate and a genuine payout, and the good-looking ones pay less. That trade-off is the actual job — and it's why skipping is a move, not a failure to act.
Worked example
A typical run through the game.
| Starting balance | $10,000 |
| Risk per trade | 2% |
| Setups offered | 20 |
| Realistic win rates on offer | 45–65% |
Players who finish ahead are usually the ones who skipped the marginal setups, not the ones who called direction best.
How to read the result
- Finishing near where you started is a decent outcome — it means your sizing kept you in the game.
- A run that ends early almost always contains one oversized trade, not a run of bad luck.
- If you took every setup offered, your result is mostly the house edge showing through.
Common mistakes
- Taking every setup because skipping feels passive.
- Raising risk after a loss to win it back — the single fastest route to a blown run.
- Chasing the highest win-rate setup without checking what it pays when it wins.
Put it into practice — risk-free
Find a regulated broker with a free demo and test your sizing with virtual funds before any real money is involved.
Find my match in 60 secondsLearn to trade
Tools
Educational tools only — results are estimates and not financial advice. Real trading involves risk of loss; most beginners lose money.