Weekend and Event Gap Risk

When markets reopen away from your stop.

4 Lessons8m total

Markets that close still gap on news. Stops triggered at the first trade may fill far from the intended level.

Course Overview

When markets reopen away from your stop.

✓Core concepts explained with market context

✓Practical examples tied to real instruments

✓Risk-aware framing — educational only

✓Next-step links across the VegaDeck curriculum

Markets that close still gap on news. Stops triggered at the first trade may fill far from the intended level.

Crypto trades continuously but can gap across venues. Reduce leverage into binary events and long closures when your process requires it.

Gap risk is a reason desks shrink exposure into weekends — not superstition.

Educational only · not investment advice · Risk disclosures

7 Lessons · 56m

1A Desk-Style Position Sizing FrameworkRisk per trade, account heat, and why leverage is not a strategy.8m▢

2Correlation in Multi-Asset BooksWhy diversification fails exactly when you need it.8m▢

3Margin Calls and Forced LiquidationFrom initial margin to stop-out levels.8m▢

4News Trading PitfallsLatency, revisions, and headline vs detail.8m▢

5Stop Orders: Market, Limit, and Gap RiskHow stops behave when liquidity thins.8m▢

6Trading Journals That Desks Actually UseProcess notes, not screenshot trophies — how to review without fooling yourself.8m▢

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Educational only · not investment advice · Risk disclosures