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Trailing Drawdown Calculator
Enter your account, the trailing drawdown and a run of daily P&L to see where the drawdown floor sits after every day. Compare end-of-day and intraday trailing, choose where the floor locks, or load a firm's published rule.
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FAQs - Trailing Drawdown
How trailing drawdowns move, when they lock, and the difference between end-of-day and intraday.
The drawdown floor sits a fixed dollar amount below your highest balance and follows it up, never down. On a 50K account with a $2,000 trailing drawdown the floor starts at $48,000; close a day at $50,500 and it moves to $48,500; lose $500 the next day and it stays at $48,500. At most futures prop firms it stops trailing once it reaches the starting balance (or starting balance + $100) and stays there.
An end-of-day (EOD) drawdown only moves the floor after the close, based on your closing balance. An intraday drawdown moves it with your highest equity at any moment, open profit included, so a trade that runs +$1,500 and comes back to flat still drags the floor up $1,500. EOD is the more forgiving of the two. At most firms either kind is still enforced in real time: touching the floor intraday fails the account.
It depends on the firm and is published in its rules. Topstep's Maximum Loss Limit and Take Profit Trader's test drawdown stop trailing at the starting balance; Lucid Trading's LucidFlex and Tradeify's funded accounts lock at starting balance + $100, which on a 50K account with a $2,000 drawdown happens once you close at $52,100 or above. Some accounts never lock. Pick a firm preset to load the published rule.
Because a list of daily P&L cannot show what happened during the day. A real account can breach on an intraday dip that recovers by the close, and that still fails it. Treat a day with a small buffer here as a day your account could easily have failed. In intraday mode, enter each day's peak open profit to see how far it dragged the floor.
Size against the buffer to the floor, not the account balance. Early on, a 50K account with a $2,000 trailing drawdown has only $2,000 of real room, and every winning day tightens it until the floor locks. Risking a small fraction of the current buffer per trade (many traders use 10–25%) keeps a normal losing streak from ending the account.
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