Your daily floor, your hard floor, and how many losses you have left before the account is gone.
Presets are common configurations, not a promise about any specific firm. Drawdown rules differ between firms and between programmes at the same firm, and they change. Read your own rulebook and type the real numbers in. Most firms measure on equity, which means floating losses on open trades count against you before you close them. Educational only — not financial advice.
A static floor is fixed to your starting balance. Start at $10,000 with a 10% maximum and the account dies at $9,000 — on day one, and on day ninety, no matter how much you made in between.
A trailing floor follows your highest equity upward. Take that same $10,000 account to $11,000 and the floor climbs to $9,900. The profit you just made is now part of what you have to protect. This is the rule that catches traders who were up and gave it back — they never lost 10% of what they deposited, but they lost 10% from the peak, and that is what the firm measures.
Percentages are abstract. "Five losses left" is not. Most challenge failures are not one catastrophic trade — they are four ordinary losses in a row followed by a fifth taken at triple size to win it back. When you can see the count going down, the temptation to size up is easier to argue with.
The countdown above assumes every loss is a full stop-out at your stated risk. Real losing streaks are messier, and partial losses stretch the number out — treat it as the floor of what you can absorb, not a budget to spend.
Your daily floor is calculated from your balance at the firm's daily rollover, not from your starting deposit. Finish a day down 4% on a 5% daily limit and you have 1% left — but tomorrow that resets and you get the full 5% again, measured from the lower balance. The maximum floor never resets. That asymmetry is the whole game: you can survive many bad days, but only one bad account.
Sizing, drawdown limits and the daily plan that keeps you inside them is Chapter 7 of The Trading Roadmap — written from forty blown accounts and two funded ones.
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