ICC Your challenge and today's numbers
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How the calculator counts
- Daily loss limit = account size × daily %. Today's floor = today's start balance (or equity, if your firm uses equity) − the daily limit. Open trades count: if your equity touches the floor, the rule is broken even if the trade later recovers.
- Static maximum loss: floor = account size − account size × max %. It never moves.
- Trailing: floor = highest balance − account size × max %. It rises as your balance makes new highs.
- Trailing end of day: the same, but the highest balance is only taken at the end of each trading day.
- Distance to a breach = current equity − the higher of the two floors, so it shows the rule you would break first.
- Example risk per trade = distance ÷ 3, so three full losses in a row would not end the challenge. It is only an example, not advice.
- Colours: green while more than half of the daily allowance is left, amber below half, red below a quarter.
Worked example: why trailing drawdown catches traders
A $100,000 account with a 10% maximum loss. With a static limit the floor stays at $90,000. With a trailing limit, growing the account to $106,000 moves the floor to $96,000. A drop back to $95,500 then breaks the trailing rule, while the same account under a static rule would still have $5,500 of room. Add a 5% daily limit from a $102,000 start of day and today's floor is $97,000, so on that day the daily limit is the one to watch.
Firms count drawdown differently: check your rules
- Some measure the daily limit from the start-of-day balance, others from the start-of-day equity or the higher of the two, and the day may reset at midnight in the firm's time zone, not yours.
- Some use a percentage of the initial balance, others of the current balance.
- Trailing limits may follow equity (open profit counts) or only closed balance, and may stop trailing at the starting balance.
- Consistency rules, news rules and minimum days can end a challenge too.
Read your firm's own rulebook before you trade. Our prop firm challenge tracker page compares FTMO, FundedNext and The5%ers with links to their official rules, and the Urdu guide پراپ فرم چیلنج: ڈیلی لاس اور ڈرا ڈاؤن explains the same ideas step by step.
Sync MetaTrader or import your trades, type your firm's rules once, and the prop firm tracker shows the room left on the daily loss, the maximum drawdown and the target, plus every fee and payout. 21-day free trial, no card needed.
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How is a trailing drawdown calculated?
Take the highest balance your account has reached and subtract the maximum loss in money (account size times the max %). With a $100,000 account, a 10% limit and a highest balance of $106,000, the floor is $96,000.
What is the difference between trailing and trailing end-of-day drawdown?
A trailing limit can move up during the day as your balance makes new highs. An end-of-day trailing limit only uses the balance at the end of each day, so a winning trade during the day does not raise the floor until the day closes.
Do open trades count towards the daily loss limit?
At most firms, yes: the limit is checked against equity, so a floating loss that touches today's floor breaks the rule even if the trade recovers later. Check your firm's rules.
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