Risk management by traders with large capital

I wanted to know this out of curiosity, As per the risk management rules, one is suppose to risk only 1% of his capital per trade, so if a person has 10 lakhs capital, do they really risk 10K per trade and is it really true for someone with a capital as huge as 1Crore (do they risk 1 lakh per trade)? How do the traders with such a huge capital handle the tension of losing 10K or 1lakh in a trade, i mean do they gradually train their minds to such a level, that it means very minimal to lose this kind of money?

P.S: This question came in my mind while I was reading ‘Trading in the Zone’ by Mark Douglas

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personally i dont follow 1% rule,i place cover order mosly,in such cases if we follow 1% rule many losing streaks will follow,but ill calculate the risk say for example if entering trade with 100,000 ill place stoploss at around 5000 or 6000.think if im placing as per what you said 1% it is rs1000 so even if markets move very slighly agaisnt my posion stop loss will hit ,so according to capiital size we need to fix the stop loss.as you prepare big capital you should also prepared for the huge stop loss mentally.but i dont prefer the 1% rule …and more capital if you have should enter very less nummber of trades with big profit targets,trading more is not important trading profitably is importatnt…quality over quantity.trading with large capital is something good it makes fell like a institution,if everythhing is managed perfectly then it will be great.

I used to trade with huge trading capital…had a series of losses and used to lose around one percent. Which itself was a lot of money. There is also a bright side that if one is right then the rewards will be just awesome. But personally I wasnt at all comfortable with that 1% of the huge capital being lost most of the days. So these days what I do is invest a major portion of my capital in fundamental stocks and a small amount towards BTST trade which I normally do.

What I feel is one should always be comfortable with losing a certain amount . Trade with a fair amount of capital which gives you a regular income and the rest use towards fundamental stocks to balance it out. I would not recommend using a large capital as your trade because even a slight movement in the opposite direction will bring more tension when you look at the mark to market screen on your trading terminal.

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As the capital grows large, instead of %capital per trade, the ratio Risk/Reward to be considered to avoid large loss.

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ariaz,in which thing you are trading in future stocks or in equity

Equities only currently…Need to learn more about derivatives before I dive into that

explained well.