Capital Protection at Every Account Size.

Capital Protection is the position-sizing and drawdown-discipline layer of the framework — the math that keeps small accounts alive. Small accounts blow up because the math is asymmetric: a 10% loss requires an 11% gain to recover, a 50% loss requires a 100% gain, and most retail traders size positions as if the math were symmetric. It is not. Every sizing rule, every drawdown band, every account-tier rule in this issue is downstream of the asymmetric ruin curve.

You will leave with the 1% rule and where it breaks down, tier-based sizing, the Kelly fraction and why you only run quarter-Kelly, drawdown bands that force you off the table before ruin, account-tier playbooks from $1K through $100K+ (including the PDT-threshold transition and where futures and hedging become the right primitives), the common mistakes, and the journal format that enforces the rules instead of letting you negotiate with yourself in real time.