How To Choose a Money Management Strategy Using EAs?

1. EA Money Management 
2. How To Select an EA Money Management Approach? 
3. Types of Money Management Practices
4. In Conclusion. What Should I Do?

EA Money Management

Proper EA money management is a crucial aspect. On the one hand, it cannot make a losing trading system beneficial. On the other hand, poor money management can destroy a profitable trading system. What a dilemma!

Traders who want to use Expert Advisors consider the trading system and market entry/exit rules. However, they neglect money management. It is a huuuge hindsight and omission.

Turning a blind eye to one of these points can lead to losses in the market. So, when generating a robot program, consider all these aspects and use them step by step.

Money management is the trading lot selection algorithm for making new trades. 

This phenomenon solves the following:

• How much volume do you need to execute the new order?
• How will the trade volume be changing?

The money management purpose is to increase profits and control drawdowns according to risk management rules. 

The money management aims at choosing a lot size that will limit the drawdown during a losing trade series. A profitable trade series will allow you to:

• Cover previous losses
• Make a profit
• Boost your capital

How To Select an EA Money Management Approach? 

Base your choice on trading system testing and statistics. You know, it does not have to be reckless or chaotical. To provide an objective analysis, you should conduct at least 100 orders and trade for more than a year. No sweet without sweat.

You should backtest the trading system for the first time without using complex money management methods, e.g., when a trade is performed with the same standard lot in all the orders. Analyze the first test results: Its drawdowns and losing trades series. Then select a money management approach and retest. 

If the trading system loses when trading a standard lot, do not use complex practices but modify the trading system. 

If the retest provides a satisfactory result, feel free to write a software requirements specification to create an Expert Advisor based on this money management technique.

Also, the robot can be programmed with the ability to switch between various methods. It is the best option since automated backtesting is more accurate. 

Types of Money Management Practices

There are two types of concepts:

• Conservative money management techniques
• Aggressive money management strategies

Conservative techniques are suitable for novice traders, and aggressive ones are better for experienced. 

Conservative money management concepts are:

• Standard lot technique
• Multiple lot strategy
• Fixed-ratio style
• Fixed percentage approach
• Hybrid methods

Aggressive money management approaches are:

• Martingale
• Pyramiding
• Locking
• Averaging
• Hybrid methods

We will describe each approach in the next articles. 

In Conclusion. What Should I Do?

Money management is a tremendously important part of trading. Neither a new player in the trading field nor a trading guru should disdain it. You should not neglect it!

So, proper money management increases profits and reduces losses.