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Market Overview and Trading Strategy — Core Principles

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Core Principles

A structure that does not die first

• The first priority in trading is not profit but 'not being liquidated'

• Keeping the sum of position size × leverage at 100 or below means a liquidation price never exists — the path to losing everything at once is closed

The essence of the withdrawal rule

• Withdraw the full principal when the account doubles and half when it triples — earned money is moved out of the market into 'money that cannot be lost'

• Trading only with the remaining seed keeps the principal safe even in the worst case

Where people slip

• Fixated on maximizing profit, they never build a 'structure that does not die first' — they raise size and leverage, and one large swing ends it

A structure that survives comes first. Make the liquidation price disappear, and take earned money out.

If your seed doubled today, do you have a withdrawal plan? Have you set the withdrawal rules in advance?

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Work out position size yourself from stop distance and account risk.

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Market Overview and Trading Strategy — Core Principles — MarketSurfer Trading Education