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@ -90,8 +90,14 @@ Your position size then will be:
**position size** = **allowed capital at risk** / **stoploss**
Example:
Let's say the stake currency is ETH and you have 10 ETH on the exchange, your **capital_available_percentage** is 50% and you would allow 1% of risk for each trade. thus your available capital for trading is **10 x 0.5 = 5 ETH** and allowed capital at risk would be **5 x 0.01 = 0.05 ETH**. Let's assume Edge has calculated that for **XLM/ETH** market your stoploss should be at 2%. So your position size will be **0.05 / 0.02= 2.5ETH**.<br/>
Example:<br/>
Let's say the stake currency is ETH and you have 10 ETH on the exchange, your **capital_available_percentage** is 50% and you would allow 1% of risk for each trade. thus your available capital for trading is **10 x 0.5 = 5 ETH** and allowed capital at risk would be **5 x 0.01 = 0.05 ETH**. <br/>
Let's assume Edge has calculated that for **XLM/ETH** market your stoploss should be at 2%. So your position size will be **0.05 / 0.02 = 2.5ETH**.<br/>
Bot takes a position of 2.5ETH on XLM/ETH (call it trade 1). Up next, you receive another buy signal while trade 1 is still open. This time on BTC/ETH market. Edge calculated stoploss for this market at 4%. So your position size would be 0.05 / 0.04 = 1.25ETH (call it trade 2).<br/>
Note that available capital for trading didn’t change for trade 2 even if you had already trade 1. The available capital doesn’t mean the free amount on your wallet.<br/>
Now you have two trades open. The Bot receives yet another buy signal for another market: **ADA/ETH**. This time the stoploss is calculated at 1%. So your position size is **0.05 / 0.01 = 5ETH**. But there are already 4ETH blocked in two previous trades. So the position size for this third trade would be 1ETH.<br/>
Available capital doesn’t change before a position is sold. Let’s assume that trade 1 receives a sell signal and it is sold with a profit of 1ETH. Your total capital on exchange would be 11 ETH and the available capital for trading becomes 5.5ETH. <br/>
So the Bot receives another buy signal for trade 4 with a stoploss at 2% then your position size would be 0.055 / 0.02 = 2.75
## Configurations
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