FTMO drawdown calculator

Worked example: which loss line is nearer?

Take $100,000 of Initial capital, balance and equity both $100,000 at the daily reset, and equity now $97,000. With illustrative limits of 5% daily and 10% total, the daily floor is $95,000 and the total floor is $90,000. That leaves $2,000 above the daily line and $7,000 above the total line. The daily line is nearer. These figures describe this example, not your connected account.

That example is the two-step account, whose total line is fixed at the initial size less 10%. The one-step account is different in kind, not only in percentage: its Maximum Loss trails the highest balance at any past reset, so an account that has run up to $110,000 carries a total line of $100,000 rather than $90,000. Press the 1-step preset for it and give the highest past reset balance you know of.

This calculator uses the higher of balance and equity at reset as its Baseline. It is a conservative model, not an exact reproduction of every FTMO account rule. If reset equity were $101,000 while balance stayed $100,000, this model would raise the daily floor to $96,000. It does not subtract Propcockpit’s Reserve. Check the FTMO account rules and sources for your account type; the firm’s own measurement determines a breach.

Open positions affect equity: read how floating loss counts and when the daily loss resets. To understand the difference between this calculation and active protection, see prop-firm risk management.

What this calculator assumes

• The FTMO preset is 5% Maximum Daily Loss and 10% Maximum Loss of the initial account size, the two-step values on the firm's objectives page (checked 2026-09-20). The two-step Maximum Loss is a fixed line: the initial account size, less 10%.
• The 1-step account is 3% and 10%, and its Maximum Loss TRAILS: the highest balance at any past 00:00 CE(S)T reset, or the initial account size if that is higher, less 10% of the initial account size; the line only ever rises. Press that preset and enter the highest past reset balance: left blank, the tool uses today's reset balance, so if the account closed a higher day in the past, the real trailing line is above the one shown and the remaining room shown is too large.
• The day is measured from the higher of balance and equity at the reset (midnight CE(S)T at FTMO). That is at least as strict as the firm's own convention; it is not claimed to be identical.
• Equity now includes floating positions, because a floating loss counts against the daily line.
• The figures it opens with are an example. It runs in your browser and stores nothing.
• A prop firm measures its own rules on its own server, in its own time zone, with its own rounding. This shows where you stand by the arithmetic above; the firm’s measurement is the one that ends an evaluation.