Prop Firm Challenge Risk & Drawdown Calculator

The FTMO preset sets a 5% daily limit on the day-reference balance you enter, and a 10% overall limit on the account size. This page does not connect to FTMO. Confirm the live rule on FTMO's own page.

Balance-only mode uses the day-start balance you type. Equity-or-balance mode uses the day-reference figure you type. If you type a figure that includes floating profit, a later pullback uses the daily buffer on this page.

Trailing mode keeps the session high. The overall floor is that high minus the max-loss amount, and it does not rise above the account size. On a $50,000 preset with a 4% ($2,000) trail, a session high of $52,000 sets the floor at $50,000. If equity then falls to $49,999, this page marks the account breached.

Gold uses $10 per pip per 1.00 lot. A 30-pip stop on 1.00 lot is $300. On the default $100,000 preset the 5% daily buffer is $5,000, so that loss uses 6% of the daily buffer. 2.00 lots and 25 pips is $500, not the whole buffer.

At 0.5% risk on $100,000, each loss is $500, so the $5,000 daily buffer covers 10 losses. At 2% risk each loss is $2,000, so the same buffer covers 2 losses. This is arithmetic on the inputs, not a recommended risk level.