Question 1

What is the difference between static, EOD trailing and intraday trailing drawdown?

Accepted Answer

A static drawdown fixes your fail line at the starting balance minus the allowance and never moves it, so every dollar of profit is a permanent dollar of extra buffer. An end-of-day trailing drawdown recalculates the line once per session from your highest closing balance, so intraday swings are ignored and only realised, held-overnight profit raises the floor. An intraday trailing drawdown tracks live equity including unrealised profit, so an open winner that runs $2,000 in your favour raises your fail line by $2,000 the moment it prints — and if you give that $2,000 back, the floor stays where it moved to. Intraday trailing is by far the harshest of the three and is the rule most traders breach without ever seeing a losing day on their statement.

Question 2

Why does my drawdown floor rise when I am profitable?

Accepted Answer

That is the whole point of a trailing rule: the allowance is measured from your high-water mark, not from your starting balance. As the high-water mark rises, the floor rises with it, so profitable trading shrinks the distance between where you are and where you fail. Many firms cap this — once your account is up by more than the drawdown allowance (sometimes plus a small buffer), the floor locks at the initial balance or at initial balance plus that buffer, and stops trailing forever after. Getting to the lock point is usually the single most important milestone of a challenge, and this calculator shows how far you are from it.

Question 3

How large a crypto position can I take without risking a breach?

Accepted Answer

Take whichever buffer binds first — the distance to your trailing floor or the distance to your max daily loss — and divide it by the adverse move you want to survive. If your binding buffer is $1,400 and you want to survive a 3% adverse move, the maximum notional is roughly $46,700, whatever leverage you use to get there. Crypto makes this sharper than futures or forex because a 3% adverse move in BTC is an ordinary Tuesday and a 3% move in a mid-cap altcoin can happen inside a minute. This calculator converts your daily volatility assumption into the probability that a normal day breaches you, which is the number that actually decides whether a challenge is passable.

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