Position Sizing in a Small Account
Swing Trading the Stock Market
Ryan Mallory
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In today's episode, I talk about how traders can establish their position size for a small account. Whether it be less than a thousand or a little bit more, Ryan provides practical guidelines for determining how you can trade multiple positions and the right mindset to have to put yourself in the best position for success.
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| 1:00.2 | Hey everybody. This is Ryan Mallory with SharePlanner.com swing trade in the stock market in |
| 1:04.5 | today's episode. We are going to be talking about position sizing with small accounts |
| 1:09.4 | and what that looks like for people trading with |
| 1:12.2 | $500 or $1,000 in their account and how you can position yourself for learning how to swing |
| 1:19.0 | trade even when you're trading with a small account. |
| 1:21.8 | Now, one of the things you want to remember when it comes to trading with small accounts |
| 1:25.3 | is that you can't have too high of expectations. |
| 1:28.9 | And I know that the marketing out there for almost everybody that you go to when it comes to a website |
| 1:34.0 | that is trying to sell you on a trading service is that they want you to believe that you can take |
| 1:39.0 | a few hundred dollars and turn it into a million dollars almost overnight. |
| 1:45.0 | And that's really not true when it comes to the stock market nobody does that it would be like hitting the lottery |
| 1:50.0 | and yes can it happen sure but the odds of that happening are not it's not like you have a 1% chance |
| 1:58.3 | you have like one in a hundred million of a chance of that actually |
| 2:03.9 | happening. And if it happens to you, it's going to be just purely on luck. In fact, I would probably |
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