Equal weighting is a good way to start out, but if a particular stock / index / currency / commodity has been producing a lot of winning trades recently, feel free to overweight it, so long as you stick within your 2% maximum loss.Some traders like to have two levels of conviction on a trade, with those they are most convinced about receiving more capital - say twice as much.Others feel that it’s important to only bet on your highest conviction trades.Some TAs allocate capital according to the volatilities of the securities they are trading.