| Trade | Result | Balance Before | Change | Drawdown | Limit Floor |
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The calculator runs your numbers through a sequence of trades and tracks what happens to your balance after each one. It then reports the deepest point you reached, how far that sits from your limit, and what it would take to climb back. Everything updates the moment you change a figure, so it is built for trying scenarios rather than getting one answer. A useful habit is to enter the risk you actually trade, then increase the number of losses until something breaks, because that tells you how much room you really have.
The blue line is your balance and the red dashed line is the level that ends your account. If blue crosses below red, that scenario fails. The recovery figure matters just as much: it is always larger than the loss, because you are rebuilding from a smaller balance.
A consecutive losing run is the stress test, showing the worst realistic case. The mixed sequence is closer to normal trading and is better for judging whether your win rate and reward can absorb the losses along the way.
Use your real average loss rather than your best case, and remember that losing trades cluster together in practice. If a scenario only survives when everything goes to plan, it is not survivable.
Your floor is set from your starting balance and never moves. Use this when your firm gives you a fixed loss limit for the whole account. It is the most forgiving type, because profit you make builds a genuine buffer above the floor.
Measured from the balance you opened the day with, and it resets each day. Use this to check whether your trading frequency is the real risk, since several losses in one session can end a challenge even when your total loss is modest.
The floor follows your highest balance upward and never comes back down. Use this when your firm trails your peak, and watch how giving back a strong run can breach the limit while you are still in profit overall.
The floor only moves up when a day closes at a new high, so profit made and given back inside the same session never raises it. Use this for futures style accounts where the limit is locked in at the close rather than intraday.
Drawdown is the drop in your account balance from a reference point down to its lowest value. On a funded account that reference point is set by your firm, and it is usually either your starting balance, the balance you opened the day with, or the highest balance you have reached. Once your account falls past the allowed drawdown, the account is closed.
Daily drawdown is measured from the balance you started the day with and resets every day. Maximum drawdown is measured from your starting balance and never moves. Trailing drawdown follows your highest balance upward and never falls back, so it tightens as you make profit. Most funded accounts apply a daily limit and one overall limit at the same time, and breaching either one ends the account.
End of day trailing drawdown is common on futures accounts. The limit only moves up when a trading day closes at a new high, so profit you make and then give back within the same session never raises your floor. It is more forgiving than trailing drawdown that follows your balance in real time, because intraday spikes do not lock in a higher limit.
Because the gain is calculated on a smaller balance than the loss was. Losing 10 percent of 100,000 leaves 90,000, and making 10 percent of 90,000 only returns 9,000, which leaves you short. You actually need 11.11 percent to get back to level. The gap widens fast as the loss deepens, so a 50 percent drawdown requires a 100 percent gain to recover.
It depends on your risk per trade and your drawdown limit. Risking 1 percent per trade against a 10 percent maximum drawdown gives you roughly 10 consecutive losses before the account fails. Since losing runs of five or six trades are normal even with a solid strategy, a good rule is to keep enough room to absorb at least ten losses in a row.
Yes. Choose the end of day trailing option, which is the drawdown type most futures prop firms apply, and set your trades per day so the calculator knows where each trading day ends. The other three types cover the rules used by CFD prop firms.
Yes. It is free, it runs in your browser, and there is no sign up or account required. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere, and results update as you type.
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