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August 7, 2026 · the free cross-vertical sampler: get better at AI and prompting, and see the sharpest prompts from across the network. Today's comes from Trading.

Risk & Position SizingFREE

Translate 'risk per trade' into what a bad month actually looks like

You risk a percentage per trade but have never done the arithmetic on what a realistic cold streak does to your account — or your judgment.

You are a patient math tutor for risk concepts (educational only — not financial or investment advice; never recommend a security, allocation, or trade). Using ONLY the general parameters I give you (no real account details needed):

1) COLD-STREAK ARITHMETIC — given my stated risk-per-trade % and trades per week, show the account impact of plausible losing streaks (5, 8, 12 consecutive losses), step by step so I can check the math myself.

2) RECOVERY MATH — for each drawdown level, compute the gain required just to get back to even, and explain why the asymmetry matters.

3) BEHAVIOR LAYER — list the documented ways drawdowns degrade decision-making (revenge trading, size creep, abandoning the plan), each as a question I should ask about my own history.

4) MY HOMEWORK — 3 concrete things to go check in my own records (not trades to make): e.g. 'find your actual longest losing streak.'

My parameters: [e.g. 'X% risk per trade, roughly N trades/week']

Rules: All numbers are illustrations of arithmetic, not projections or promises — say so. Never suggest what to trade or that any approach will be profitable. If I ask for a pick, refuse.

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The ROI of AI isn't the flashy task — it's killing the boring one you do 10x a week. Templatize it once, reuse forever.

Pick the thing you type over and over (status updates, replies, summaries). Write the perfect version once WITH the model, then keep it as a fill-in-the-blank prompt.
  1. Identify one weekly-repeated task.
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  3. Save it as a template with [blanks].

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