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A trade size, and what makes it checkable later — Ethiopia

Three boxes give one figure in a second. Keeping the figure is easy; the three inputs behind it disappear — and only they make the number checkable later.

A closed trade records itself: the size that went out, exact and dated. How it was arrived at is recorded nowhere — the balance, the share of it, the distance. Save the answer alone, and later nothing checks it.

Balance the share comes from (USD)

Share one trade may cost

Stop-loss distance for this trade (pips)

What this trade may lose$1.00

The size to record — Standard—

The same trade, in cent units—

Rows assume a pair quoted in US dollars, such as EUR/USD, where one pip on a full lot is $10. The platform (MetaTrader, or the Exness Terminal) states pip value, margin and cost before an order is confirmed. A learning tool, not advice.

Kept for you, or kept only if written

The middle box carries a rule: no more than 1% on one trade, $1 on a $100 balance. Four figures, ageing at four speeds — and the trusted one settles nothing alone.

Figure	Where it exists a month on	What brings it back
The size traded, say 0.01 lots	The account's own record	Nothing: already there
The balance it was a share of	Nowhere, once money moves	Only the line written then
The share: 0.5%, 1% or 2%	Memory, as «one percent, probably»	The figure and its date
The distance in pips	No screen, after the close	The number noted beforehand

Checking an old figure, or counting a fresh one

Checking asks what followed from what was known then; counting asks what fits now.

The question, a month later	What it needs	What it settles
Did the size follow from those boxes?	The inputs as they stood	The decision itself
What size fits the balance today?	Today's inputs	The next trade only
Why was the share set there that week?	A sentence; no box holds it	Nothing, unless written then

The third row reaches no calculator: «smaller share this week, after three losses» takes seconds to write and cannot be rebuilt later.

The same line, on a second and third reading

The second reading is arithmetic: $1 ÷ (20 × $10) = 0.005 lots, under the smallest Standard trade of 0.01 — what the Standard Cent account is for. Weeks on, the 20 stands out instead: a decision about one moment, which the line either explains or does not. That third reading is the one a saved line has to survive — free to rehearse on a demo account, where the share still comes from the safety rules.

Questions that come up after the figure is saved

Is the answer worth saving without the three inputs?

It can be read, not checked: «0.01 lots» names no balance, no share and no distance.

An old line says one size, this page now says another. Which is wrong?

Neither, usually — different inputs give different answers. Compare the boxes before the results.

How long is one of these lines worth keeping?

Until every figure in it has been replaced. Until then it holds the reasoning.

Nothing was written for a run of trades. Is the gap recoverable?

The sizes are, in the account's record; the grounds are not, and memory refills them as today.

Does the account behind the trade change what gets written?

The unit does, not the sum: 0.005 lots on Standard is 0.5 cent-lots on Standard Cent. See the account types.

When does a saved line actually get read again?

Before the next trade of the same shape; a stack of them shows what keeps repeating (beginner mistakes).

Where these figures come from, and go

The middle box, decided earlier

The share and the stop-loss are settled before this page opens.

See where the figures start

The first saved calculation

It becomes the line every later one gets compared against.

Walk through a first trade

Where a stack of them ends up

Read together, they name the habit that keeps returning.

See the repeating ones

Write the three inputs down, then run them on virtual money.

A demo account has no time limit: the figures can be noted, traded and read back weeks on.

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