Trailing vs static drawdown visualizer

The same trades can pass under a static drawdown and fail under a trailing one. Paste your closed trades and see the floor each rule would put under you.

The three drawdown types

• Static: the floor is fixed at starting balance minus the max drawdown and never moves. Profits give you more room.
• Trailing, end of day: after each day closes at a new high, the floor moves up to that high minus the max drawdown. Swings during the day don’t move it, but they can still breach it.
• Trailing, each closed trade: the floor moves up after every trade that closes at a new high. Profits don’t give you extra room until the floor stops trailing.

Many firms stop the trail once the floor reaches the starting balance (the box above). After that, the floor works like a static one. A breach here means the balance falls to or below the floor.

What it leaves out. It uses closed-trade balances. Some firms trail the highest unrealised equity, including open profit you never banked, which is stricter than anything shown here, and most check breaches against live equity, so an open trade can breach the floor before it closes. Check your firm’s exact definition. Read trailing vs static drawdown explained.