Position Sizing: Kelly Is Elegant—Live Trading Needs Hard Caps
What Kelly optimizes, why half-Kelly and hard caps dominate live trading, and how sizing maps to grids, trends, and layering.
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Depeg, settlement latency, and concentration—treat stables as infrastructure, not risk-free cash.
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From the WWII bomber story to look-ahead, overfitting, and liquidity; a practical checklist to narrow the backtest–live gap.
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