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Risk Management • Visual Master Guide

Daily Drawdown Limit

The maximum loss your account can incur in a single 24-hour cycle before automatic breach.

Daily drawdown protects prop firms from intraday blowout events. Depending on the firm, it is calculated against either your daily starting balance, current floating equity, or the highest equity peak of the day.

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Why this rule exists

Daily drawdown protects prop firms from intraday blowout events. Depending on the firm, it is calculated against either your daily starting balance, current floating equity, or the highest equity peak of the day.

How traders get caught

Risk floors are enforced tick by tick against live equity including spread and swaps. Server-time resets and intraday peaks shrink usable room far below what the headline percent suggests.

How to stay safe

Check the Source Inspector for the exact FAQ excerpt, test your equity distance in the simulator, and keep a 20% buffer above the nearest floor.

The Formula

How it is calculated

Daily Loss Floor = Higher of (Day Start Balance, Day Start Equity) - (Nominal Size * Daily Limit %)

Real Dollar Example

On a $100,000 account with 4% daily loss starting at $100,000, your daily floor is $96,000. If your equity touches $95,999 at any millisecond, the account is terminated.

Common Traps & Mistakes

1

Assuming trailing drawdown resets at local midnight instead of the firm server time (e.g. 00:00 CE(S)T).

2

Holding winning positions without taking partials, watching floating profit vanish and violating the intraday drawdown floor.

3

Holding multiple open trades through high-spread rollover hour (21:00-22:00 UTC) where spread widening trips the floor.

Firms using this rule

Goat Funded Trader 4% on Standard, 5% on GOAT, 3% oFTMO 5% Equity-based daily lossFunding Pips 5% Equity-based daily loss
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