You're up 30% on a trade. You…
About this quiz
Risk tolerance is two separate things that people tend to blur together: what you can afford to lose financially, and what you can watch happen without panicking. The first is arithmetic — money you genuinely do not need. The second is emotional, and it is usually lower than people estimate before they have watched a real position go red.
This quiz probes both, then translates the answer into a concrete number: the percentage of your account to risk on any single trade. That number is what actually protects you, because it decides how many losses in a row you can absorb. At 1% risk per trade, ten consecutive losses leave you with about 90% of your account and a clear head. At 20%, the same streak effectively ends your account. Losing streaks are normal — even a genuinely profitable strategy hits five or more losses in a row regularly.
Key takeaways
- Only risk money whose total loss would annoy you, not harm you.
- Risking 1% or less per trade is what lets you survive a normal losing streak.
- Deep drawdowns are mathematically brutal: down 50% requires a 100% gain to recover.
- Emotional risk tolerance is usually lower than people predict — the demo reveals it safely.