Position sizing method - which one do you use and what results did you get?

[Ghost of Cutten]

What position sizing method did you use in your trading career, and did you have a maximum career drawdown significantly greater than what you had intended as your worst case loss?

Please state your maximum bet size as a % of account that you made over the course of your career, on any properly planned trade (i.e. not when you went on tilt, made a fat finger error, or were a total noob etc). If you are willing, please state your real money worst-case drawdown, and what you had planned beforehand to be your worst-case drawdown.

 

[Wide Tailz]

Fixed fractional, ~2% per trade, technical trend following for ~20% / yr (stocks). I take profitz way too early

:eek:

*edit- worst case dd was around 5% of the account, recovered within a month.

 

[Pipflow]

I use fixed percentage risk or position sizing when am trading in the forex market.