Want to survive your first year of trading? Forget get-rich-quick dreams—focus on NOT losing money first.

Every blown account starts the same way: ignoring risk management basics. Position sizing, stop losses, portfolio allocation—sounds boring until you watch 80% of your capital vanish in a bad week.

The traders still standing after five years? They treated capital protection like religion from day one. Not because they're smarter, but because they respected what the market can take from you.

Learn these fundamentals before you learn anything else. Your future self will thank you.