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Prop Firm Drawdown Calculator

Inspect configurable example thresholds without assuming a firm’s rules.

Educational estimates, not personalized investment advice. Verify broker specifications. Costs, slippage and changing exchange rates can increase actual loss. Example inputs are not live quotes.

Your estimate

See the numbers behind your plan.

Review the example inputs, adjust them to your scenario, then select Calculate.

  1. Check instrument specifications
  2. Enter your parameters
  3. Review the result and assumptions
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How this calculator works

This calculator compares a manually entered balance or equity measure with daily and overall loss thresholds. It helps explain a rule set you enter; it does not connect to a prop-firm account or certify compliance with any firm’s policy.

A quick visual example

Illustrative inputs · not live prices
  1. Daily floor$10,000 baseline − $500 = $9,500
  2. Current equity$9,800 entered manually
  3. Daily room$9,800 − $9,500 = $300

Replaces the form inputs with this example and calculates the result.

Choose the right inputs

Enter initial balance, the current metric, the daily reset baseline and monetary loss allowances. For trailing rules, also enter the recorded high-water mark and the relevant basis. Read the provider’s rules to establish which values include floating P/L and how resets are handled. The timezone and reset-time fields are descriptive; they do not update the baseline automatically.

Understand your result

Remaining allowance is the current selected metric minus the threshold. A negative value is below the floor, and this model treats touching the floor as a breach. Static overall limits are based on initial balance; trailing limits use the entered high-water mark. The model is uncapped and does not stop trailing at a particular balance.

Common mistakes to avoid

Do not enter percentages where monetary amounts are required. A stale daily baseline or high-water mark can produce a misleading result. Firm rules may include caps, intraday highs, end-of-day calculations or special treatment of costs that this simplified model does not implement.

Frequently asked questions

Will the daily baseline reset automatically?

No. Update it yourself according to the provider’s reset rules. There is no account feed or automatic timezone conversion.

Is the warning a firm-specific rule?

No. The warning uses the model’s own 10% buffer criterion; it is not an official policy of a trading provider.

Sources and further reading

CME Group: contract size, ticks and profit/loss explains contract-based price exposure using futures examples; those contract specifications are not substitutes for a Forex or CFD broker’s settings.

CFTC: retail Forex customer advisory explains leverage and dealer risks in a US regulatory context. Neither source endorses Curizora or validates a particular broker or prop-firm rule set.

Calculation formula

Daily threshold = manually entered reset baseline − daily amount. Overall threshold = initial balance or recorded high-water mark − overall amount. Remaining allowance = selected current metric − threshold.

Worked example

For a $10,000 daily baseline and $500 daily allowance, the floor is $9,500. Current equity of $9,800 leaves $300. Static $1,000 overall loss limit leaves $800.

Assumptions and limitations

Example rules only: uncapped trailing threshold; touching either threshold breaches; warning at 10% or less of the smaller configured loss allowance. Enter monetary limits, not percentages. The daily baseline, reset time and high-water mark are manual; no clock, timezone conversion or account feed is provided.

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