Nobody blows an account with one mad trade. They blow it with six slightly-too-big ones. Here's the exact arithmetic from lot size to stop-out, and the sizing habit that breaks the chain.
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Nobody gets margin called by surprise. There are warnings, sometimes days of them, and almost everyone ignores the lot. Twelve rules that would have saved nearly every wrecked account we've audited.
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Your platform shows margin level as a percentage. Useless. What you need is the number of pips between here and the call, and here and the stop-out. We work it out by hand, case by case.
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Gold wrecks more retail accounts than any forex pair we see, and it's not bad luck. Contract size, margin load, spread spikes and gaps: here's the exact machinery, with numbers.
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One is a warning. The other is your broker closing trades for you, in an order you didn't choose, at prices you won't like. Knowing the gap between the two is what keeps accounts alive.
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