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No stop is a decision to risk the whole account

A trade without a stop has no defined risk, so it can't be sized: the position size only makes sense against a distance to a stop.

Most blown accounts don't come from many small losses. They come from one trade with no exit plan that was held 'until it comes back'.

Prop firms close accounts on the daily loss limit and the drawdown floor, whatever your reason was. Without a stop, the firm's rule becomes your stop — at the worst price.

Send every order as a bracket (entry, stop and target together), so the stop exists before you can talk yourself out of it.

TradeCompass turns this into your own rules: it checks every trade against them and warns you before you break one.

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