stock trading risk management

Retail trading discipline and institutional risk management borrow the same vocabulary and almost none of the same infrastructure. A trader has no second line, no independent validation and no committee, so position sizing, stop discipline and an honest record of decisions are the entire control environment.

This is a small and focused section rather than a full course. It covers why risk management rather than stock selection tends to separate traders who survive from those who do not, what a cross trade is and why the mechanics matter, and how rising rates compress growth stock valuations, a duration effect that is easy to explain after the fact and expensive to ignore before it.

For portfolio level technique and quantification see financial risk, and for the digital asset equivalent crypto trading risk management.