Prop Firm Drawdown Runway Calculator

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Drawdown runway calculator

Your remaining drawdown and your daily loss cap turn into one number: how many maximum-loss days you can survive. Most people running evaluations have never worked it out, and it's usually smaller than they'd guess.

Runway, in maximum-loss daysDrawdown remaining divided by your daily cap
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Cost of two bad daysAgainst the drawdown you have left
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If every account has a maximum-loss daySame trades, same day
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Already spent on these accountsFees plus resets
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Cost to replace them allWhat losing every account costs to rebuild
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Consistency ratioBest day as a share of total profit
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    Why days, not dollars

    A drawdown figure in dollars is abstract. The same number expressed as days is a decision you can act on, because it answers the only question that matters on a bad morning: how many more of these before this account is gone?

    Under five days is the threshold worth caring about. It means an ordinary losing streak — not a disaster, just a normal run of the kind every system produces — finishes the account. At that point the useful lever isn't a better setup. It's a smaller daily cap, which buys days.

    The consistency check catches the other way evaluations end. Many firms cap how much of your total profit may come from a single day. Traders discover this at payout time, having done nothing wrong except have one very good session early on.

    How it's calculated

    runway in days = drawdown remaining / your daily loss cap two-day exposure = your daily loss cap x 2 all-account day = your daily loss cap x accounts running already spent = (cost per account x accounts) + resets consistency ratio = best day's profit / total profit

    All of it from figures you type in. Nothing is sent anywhere, and we hold no opinion about any firm — the consistency limit is a field because it's yours to look up, not ours to assert.

    What this can't tell you

    • How your firm measures drawdown. Trailing, end-of-day and static limits behave very differently, and a trailing limit moves against you as the account grows. Read the current rules and paste them somewhere you'll see them.
    • Whether you'll honour your own cap. A cap you trade through is a number in a spreadsheet, not a risk control.
    • What the firm's rules are today. They change. We won't state them from memory and neither should you.
    • Whether running several accounts is a good idea for you. That depends on things arithmetic can't see.

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    The one-page rulebookA free template for writing your rules down. Print it and sign it. What do your trades actually prove?Your win rate over a small sample is mostly noise. Find out how much. Position size calculatorContracts, dollar risk, and the copied-account multiplier.

    This is one number out of a system

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    Educational tool only. This is arithmetic on numbers you type in — it is not investment advice, it does not predict anything, and it has no opinion on what you should trade. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and most people who try it lose money. Past results, including your own, do not predict future results. Verify contract specifications with your broker and your account rules with your firm; both change.