Never Add to a Losing Trade
Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member The one rule George drills harder than any other… because adding contracts to a loser halves your distance to a blown account. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Never add to a losing trade. When a trade goes against you in ES E-mini futures, the instinct is to buy more and lower your average price. Do not. Adding contracts to a loser stacks leverage on a position that is already wrong and shrinks the room you have left before your account is done. This is the line in the sand. It is the number one path to ruin. This page gathers everything George teaches about the rule across hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures trading… the math that makes averaging down so deadly, the sister rule about never widening a stop, and how George keeps himself from breaking either one when a trade turns ugly. “...