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Prop firm account manager.
Turn your firm's percentages into money: how much you can still lose today, where your real floor is, how many stops you have left and how likely you are to pass at your current risk.
Account manager
You can still lose today
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The working
Your limits, in money.
Most failed challenges break a rule the trader never translated from a percentage into an amount. Here it is, line by line.
Simulation
Your odds of passing, by risk per trade.
Thousands of simulated challenges from a fresh account with your win rate, reward ratio and daily routine. Look at how the pass rate moves as risk goes up — it rises, peaks and then falls.
| Risk / trade | Pass | Fail: daily | Fail: max loss | Out of time | Avg. days to pass |
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Consistency rule
Is one big day blocking your payout?
Understand it
The rules that actually fail challenges.
Two limits at once, and the closer one rules
A prop account has two floors active at the same time: the daily one, recalculated every server midnight, and the max loss, which looks at the whole life of the account. Your real room is the distance to the higher of the two. Early on the daily one nearly always binds; after several losing days the max loss takes over and your “official” 5% daily room stops being true.
The daily limit is measured on equity
You do not need to close at a loss to fail. If you start the day at $100,000 and an open position reaches −$5,000 floating, you have broken the rule even if it recovers later. That is why risk per trade must include every position open at once.
1% is not 1%
On your own $100,000 account, losing 1% is losing 1%. In a challenge with a 10% max loss your real working capital is $10,000, and each 1% stop consumes 10% of your survival room. With a 5% daily limit it consumes 20% of your day. Seen that way, risking 2% per trade is betting 40% of your day on a single position.
Why more risk can lower your odds of passing
With a winning strategy, risking more gets you to target sooner, but it also widens the streaks. The simulation table shows it: at very low risk you run out of time; at high risk a perfectly normal run of 4–5 losses fails you. The sweet spot is usually well below what the trader expects.
Stopping after N losses: the cheapest rule there is
Try changing “stop for the day after N losses” from 0 to 2 and watch the “fail: daily” column. A personal rule that keeps you from trading in your worst mental state almost entirely removes that cause of failure, without touching the strategy.
Trailing: money you made stops being yours
With a trailing drawdown, every new high lifts the floor. If you make $4,000 and give it back, you are not back at square one: you are $4,000 closer to failing. On these accounts protecting gains (cutting risk after a good run) matters more than on static-floor accounts.
More on this: how to monitor daily drawdown and the prop firm rules an EA breaks without you noticing.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
How is the daily loss limit calculated?
In the most common model it is a percentage of the initial balance subtracted from the balance you started the day with. On a $100,000 account with a 5% daily limit, if you start today at $102,000 your floor is $97,000. Equity counts — that includes floating losses on open positions.
What is the difference between static and trailing drawdown?
Static is a fixed floor: $100,000 with 10% means you can never drop below $90,000, whatever you make. Trailing chases your high: if you reach $104,000 on a 6% trailing rule, the floor moves to $98,000. It usually locks once it reaches the initial balance. Trailing punishes giving profits back; static does not.
How much should I risk per trade in a challenge?
Whatever lets you lose several times in a day without touching the daily limit. With a 5% daily limit, risking 1% gives you 4 stops of room; risking 2% gives you 2. The simulation shows that above a certain risk your odds of passing drop even with a winning strategy, because variance knocks you out first.
What is the consistency rule?
Some firms require that your best day does not exceed a percentage of total profit (30–50% depending on the firm). If you made $3,000 in one day and the limit is 40%, you need $7,500 of total profit to get paid. The consistency section works out how much is missing.
How reliable is the pass probability?
As reliable as the inputs. It simulates thousands of challenges with your win rate and reward ratio, assuming each trade is independent and you always risk the same. It does not model slippage, news, regime changes or how you behave after a streak. Use it to compare scenarios, not as a promise.
Are the presets my firm's rules?
They are templates of the most common models, not any firm's official terms. Rules change often and vary by account type: always check the current ones and adjust the fields by hand.
Can Quantisentry watch this automatically?
Yes. This page is the manual calculation; Quantisentry reads your MT5 EA telemetry and warns you when an account approaches its daily or max limit, without touching orders.
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