Prop firm drawdown calculator

Prop firm drawdown calculator for static, end-of-day and intraday trailing accounts. Load your firm's preset or enter your own rules to see the exact dollar level that fails you, and how much cushion is left.

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Breach level
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Cushion left
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Buffer used
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Prop firm drawdown comes in three types

Every prop firm caps your losses with a drawdown rule, and the mechanics differ enough to change how you should trade.

The same $2,000 allowance is a very different constraint when it trails your open profit in real time.

Static

A fixed floor below your starting balance. It never moves, no matter how much profit you build. The most forgiving rule, and the reason FTMO and most CFD firms are the easiest to plan around.

Static drawdown calculator

Trailing, end of day

The floor rises with each new end-of-day high, then locks at your starting balance. Intraday spikes that give back do not hurt you. Topstep and Earn2Trade both work this way.

End of day trailing drawdown calculator

Trailing, real time

The floor follows your highest balance tick by tick, open trades included. Taking partial profits too late can drag the floor up behind you. Apex Trader Funding works this way.

Intraday trailing drawdown calculator

A trailing floor ratchets up behind your profit
until the firm locks it

Say you trade a $50,000 Topstep account with a $2,000 Maximum Loss Limit. On day one your floor is $48,000. You finish the day at $50,800, a new end-of-day high, so the floor ratchets up to $48,800.

A week later your best close is $51,900 and the floor sits at $49,900. One more good day takes the highest close past $52,000, and the floor reaches $50,000, your starting balance, where it locks for good. From then on breakeven is the line that matters, and every dollar above it is real cushion.

Run your own numbers in the calculator above. Enter your highest end-of-day balance and your current balance, and it returns the exact breach level plus how much of your buffer is already spent.

Drawdown by firm: static on the FTMO 2-Step, trailing at Topstep, Apex and Earn2Trade

Firm Rule Floor stops rising at Daily loss limit
Topstep Trailing (end of day) Starting balance Yes
Apex Trader Funding Trailing (real time) Start + $100 No
FTMO Static (fixed floor) Never moves Yes
Earn2Trade Trailing (end of day) Starting balance Yes
The5ers Static (fixed floor) Never moves Yes

Rules last checked July 2026. Always confirm against the firm's official documentation before trading. Topstep, FTMO and Earn2Trade link to our own drawdown pages for those firms. Apex and The5ers link out to the firms themselves, and we earn nothing from Apex.

The drawdown calculator cannot see open positions or the daily loss limit

It reports the breach level implied by the rules you selected. It does not know about open positions, so if you are holding a trade at a real-time trailing firm your true floor may already be higher than what you see here.

It also does not model the gap between your platform's balance and the firm's own end-of-day reconciliation, which can differ by a session.

Related calculators

This page covers all three floors at once. Take the exact one your firm uses: static drawdown, end-of-day trailing or intraday trailing. What sets your distance from it is risk per trade, and what it does to your odds over a whole challenge is the prop firm challenge calculator.

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Static drawdown calculator

One fixed floor below your starting balance. Profit never moves it.

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End of day trailing drawdown calculator

A floor that rises only when a day closes at a new high.

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Intraday trailing drawdown calculator

A floor that follows your highest balance in real time, open trades included.

Common prop firm drawdown questions

What is trailing drawdown in prop trading?
A trailing drawdown is a loss limit that follows your account upward. If your allowance is $2,000 and your balance climbs from $50,000 to $51,500, the level that fails you rises from $48,000 to $49,500. Profits raise the floor under you until the firm locks it.
What is the difference between end-of-day and real-time trailing drawdown?
End-of-day trailing only ratchets up when a trading day closes at a new high, so an intraday spike that fades does not move your floor. Real-time trailing follows your highest balance tick by tick, including open trade profit, which is far less forgiving.
Does the drawdown stop trailing once I am in profit?
At most futures firms, yes. Topstep locks the floor once it reaches your starting balance; Apex locks it at your starting balance plus $100. From that point on the account behaves like a static-drawdown account.
What happens if my balance touches the breach level?
The account fails immediately, in an evaluation and in most funded accounts alike. Firms enforce it automatically, so you want to know the exact dollar level before you take the next trade. That is what this calculator gives you.