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Learn Forex: High Probability Breakout Trading in Forex 01.23

Summary:This video will show you how to determine an appropriate trade size relative to your account size through effective leverage and the “risk management calculator”. We will use last week’s set up on the USDCHF and a new potential opportunity with the GBPJPY to illustrate these tools.

Head Trading Instructor Jeremy Wagner discusses:

*How to use the Donchian Channel Indicator to identify entry and exit points of a trade

*What is effective leverage and why it is important

*What percentage of capital the most to risk on a trade

*How to determine trade size on a developing trading opportunity with GBPJPY

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Best of luck trading!

---Written by Jeremy Wagner, Head Trading Instructor, DailyFX Education

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