Normalize risk across all instruments so that you can create risk units. This way, every instrument will be the same in terms of the risk that you’ll represent in your portfolio.
Many commodity traders use the 20-Day ATR (Average True Range) in order to calculate the daily dollar-volatility per instrument. Then, they divide that into the percentage of capital that they are willing to lose per trade.
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