Trailing drawdown calculator
Type one trading day per line and the calculator moves the floor the way a prop firm does: up with your best balance, never down, and locked once it reaches the level you choose. Add an intraday peak after a comma to see how much more an intraday account would have cost you.
| Day | Close | Floor | Room |
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How to read it
Each line is one day: your net result, and optionally the highest open profit you reached that day. With End of day the peak is ignored, because only the close moves the floor. Switch to Intraday (peak) with the same lines and compare the floor column. The difference is the room an intraday account takes from you for profit you gave back.
The example loaded above is a 50K account with a $2,000 drawdown. On end of day it survives the week. Switch it to intraday and watch the floor climb on the days with a peak.
What it simplifies
- A losing day's lowest point is assumed to be the close. In reality an open loss can touch the floor mid-session and end the account before the close.
- Commissions aren't included. Put your net result after fees in each line.
- Real firms differ in details such as which platform stops the intraday trail at the target. For an exact run, use the simulator with the firm's own rules.
The real thing
The simulator runs the same logic on your actual trades, with each firm's timing, locks and daily loss limit. Use this calculator to understand the mechanic, then go break it on purpose in practice.
Now try it with real trades
The calculator shows the math. The simulator shows what happens when you actually trade the rules day after day.
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