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# Blowing an Account with 5% Risk

> A controlled comparison of 1%, 3%, and 5% risk across a 15-trade losing sequence.

# Blowing an Account with 5% Risk

Consider a \$10,000 account exposed to 15 consecutive losses using fixed-percentage risk.

| Risk per trade | Equity after 15 losses | Drawdown |
| -------------: | ---------------------: | -------: |
|             1% |                \$8,600 |    14.0% |
|             3% |                \$6,333 |    36.7% |
|             5% |                \$4,633 |    53.7% |

At 5% risk, the account loses more than half its equity after the sequence. Recovering from a 53.7% drawdown requires a gain of roughly 116%.

The lesson is not that 15 losses will necessarily occur. It is that **risk per trade determines how expensive an adverse sequence becomes**.