Risk Management
Position sizing, loss boundaries, leverage and exposure: the decisions that decide whether an account survives.
Risk Management8 min readMarket Maker Method Explained: How to Trade It in Crypto
Count to three and look for two letters. The market maker method as I trade it in crypto, with a real Bitcoin chart: the weekend trap, the three levels, and the M or the W.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management7 min readPower of 3 Strategy: How to Use It in Your Crypto Trading
You were right about the direction and still got stopped out. The power of 3 strategy explained with a real Bitcoin chart: accumulation, manipulation and distribution, and the two ways I enter.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management9 min readMultiple Timeframe Analysis: Context From Every Timeframe
A 15-minute pattern supports a 15-minute sized move. Here's how lower-timeframe structure builds the higher timeframe, with a worked Bitcoin example of a matched target and a mismatched one.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management8 min readThe 1:3 Risk Reward Ratio: How to Calculate It and Use It
Most setups on your chart should be passed on. Here's how the 1:3 risk-to-reward filter works, the breakeven math behind it, and a worked Bitcoin example where patience did all the heavy lifting.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management10 min readStop Loss vs Limit Order: What a Stop Really Protects
Your stop decides when you get out. The market decides the price. Here's how slippage, gaps and order types really work, and how to size so a bad fill still fits the plan.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management8 min readHow Much Money Do I Need to Start Trading Crypto?
With $1,000, your risk per trade is $10 to $20 and the stop decides everything else. Here is the three-step method, a worked ETH example and where leverage fits.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management10 min readIs Day Trading Gambling? The Difference Is the Process
Leverage trading is gambling when the decisions change every trade. It is not when the same seven decisions are made in the same order with fixed risk. Cause and effect, the Decision Protocol and a trade done both ways.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management10 min readWhat Leverage Should I Use? Size From the Stop First
Leverage is an output of your stop distance and dollar risk, not a choice. A table of stop distance against effective leverage at 1% risk, and a worked trade that picks the setting last.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management8 min readTrading Plan Example: The Checklist Before Every Trade
Most traders answer the right questions in the wrong order. The Decision Protocol is the seven-step checklist Crypto Renegades members run on every crypto position: five decisions before the order goes in, two after it closes.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management7 min readPosition Sizing With Leverage: 10x and 100x Risk the Same
Position size should come from the loss you're willing to take, not the profit you want. Here's the three-step method, with worked examples for spot and leveraged trades.
Chad Wittfeldt 
Risk Management7 min readWhat Is Liquidation in Crypto? Leverage and Liquidation Price, Explained
Leverage isn't reckless by itself. Leverage without a plan is. How it works, where liquidation sits, and the rules that keep your stop in charge instead of the exchange.
Chad Wittfeldt