Static drawdown calculator

Static drawdown calculator that works out the fixed floor your account fails at, and how much room is left above it. Load the FTMO or The5ers preset, or enter your own balance and loss limit.

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Static drawdown fixes one floor below your starting balance, permanently

The firm subtracts your total loss allowance from the starting balance, and that number is the floor for the life of the account.

On FTMO the Maximum Loss is 10%, so a $100,000 account fails at $90,000 and stays failing at $90,000 no matter what you earn afterwards.

Your drawdown floor never moves, so profit becomes permanent cushion

Every dollar you earn is a dollar of extra room, and none of it is handed back.

On a trailing account, banking profit pulls the fail level up behind you, so a good run can end with the cushion you started with. Static is the one rule where a strong start buys real safety later.

The daily loss limit fails static accounts
that are nowhere near the floor

A fixed overall floor is not the only way to fail. Most firms run a daily loss limit alongside it, and that one resets every session.

You can sit well above your static floor and still lose the account by giving back too much in a single day. The calculator above reports the overall floor; check your firm's daily limit separately.

Static maximum loss is the rule at FTMO and The5ers

Firm	Rule as the firm names it	Floor stops rising at
FTMO	Static (fixed floor)	Never moves
The5ers	Static (fixed floor)	Never moves

FTMO runs this rule on the 2-Step Challenge. Its 1-Step Challenge uses an end-of-day trailing Max Loss instead, recalculated from your highest daily closing balance.

Rules last checked July 2026. Confirm against the firm's own documentation before you trade — firms change loss limits and lock levels without much notice.

The other prop firm drawdown rules

Which floor you trade against changes the account more than any other rule. All three in one place: the prop firm drawdown calculator. What sets your distance from whichever one applies: the prop firm risk calculator. What it does to your odds over a full challenge: the prop firm challenge calculator. And once you are funded, the rules that decide the money: payout and the consistency rule.

End of day trailing drawdown calculator

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Prop firm drawdown calculator

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Common drawdown questions

What is a static drawdown in prop trading?

A static drawdown is a fixed loss floor set below your starting balance that never moves. If your allowance is 10% on a $100,000 account, the account fails at $90,000 whether your balance is $95,000 or $150,000.

Does profit raise a static drawdown floor?

No. That is the defining feature. Profit increases the distance between your balance and the floor, but the floor itself stays where the firm set it on day one.

Which prop firms use static drawdown?

The5ers uses a static maximum loss anchored to the starting balance, and so does the FTMO 2-Step Challenge. FTMO’s 1-Step Challenge does not: its Max Loss is an end-of-day trailing limit recalculated from your highest daily close, so a blanket "FTMO is static" is only half right. Static drawdown is most common among CFD and forex firms; futures firms more often use a trailing rule.

Is static drawdown better than trailing drawdown?

It is more forgiving, because banked profit becomes permanent cushion instead of pulling the fail level up behind you. Whether it is better overall depends on the rest of the firm's terms, including the profit target, the daily loss limit and the split.