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Drawdown & Recovery Calculator
Understand the exponential mathematics of capital loss. Calculate required recovery gains after drawdowns and protect prop firm trailing thresholds.
Account Balance & Loss Input
$
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Prop Firm Max Permissible Drawdown Limit:0% ($0)
Trailing Drawdown Buffer Remaining:$0 (0.0%)
Recovery Mathematics-0.00% DD
Gain Required to Break Even
+0.0%
Must make +$0 on $0 remaining capitalExponential Asymmetry of Losses
-5% Loss+5.3% Gain
-10% Loss+11.1% Gain
-15% Loss+17.6% Gain
-20% Loss+25% Gain
-25% Loss+33.3% Gain
-30% Loss+42.9% Gain
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Asymmetric Drawdown & Recovery Mathematics
Losses are geometrically asymmetric. Losing 50% of your account does not require a 50% gain to recover; it requires a 100% gain just to return to your starting capital.
Formula Definition:
Drawdown_% = ( (Peak_Equity - Current_Equity) / Peak_Equity ) * 100% Required_Recovery_Gain_% = ( (1 / (1 - (Drawdown_% / 100))) - 1 ) * 100%Trader Risk Best Practices
- check_circleA 10% loss requires an 11.1% gain to recover.
- check_circleA 20% loss requires a 25.0% gain to recover.
- check_circleA 50% loss requires a 100.0% gain to recover.
- check_circleProp firm traders should implement hard daily loss caps at 1/3 of total allowed trailing drawdown.
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