Prop Firm Drawdown Calculator
Pick your firm and plan, enter your current balance and equity high, and see exactly how much headroom you have before hitting the trailing drawdown floor. Supports Apex Intraday and EOD, Topstep, MFFU, Tradeify, Lucid, and Alpha Futures.
Inputs
Defaults to account starting balance if blank.
The highest mid-trade equity ever reached on this account.
Results
Trails your live equity high. Locks at starting balance once headroom exceeds max DD.
100% of max drawdown remaining
Distance from current balance to profit target
Track this live, not by snapshot.
Connect your broker once and TradersForge updates your drawdown headroom on every fill — across as many prop firm accounts as you run. Plus pre-trade warnings when you're close to the wall.
FAQ
- How does prop firm trailing drawdown work?
- Most prop firms use a trailing drawdown floor that moves up as your account equity grows. The two main variants are intraday trailing (the floor updates with every new mid-trade equity high) and end-of-day trailing (the floor only updates at session close). When your balance touches or crosses the floor, the account is busted. Static drawdown — used by some Tradeify and Alpha Futures plans — uses a fixed floor that never trails.
- What's the difference between intraday and EOD trailing drawdown?
- Intraday trailing recalculates the drawdown floor every time equity makes a new high during the session, even mid-trade. EOD trailing only updates the floor at session close. EOD is generally easier to pass because the floor moves slower — a single big intraday spike doesn't lift your floor for the rest of the day. Apex offers both as separate plan types; most other firms use EOD trailing as standard.
- How does Apex's trailing drawdown floor lock?
- On Apex Intraday Trail accounts, once your equity exceeds (account size + max drawdown), the trailing floor locks at the original account starting balance — it stops moving up. So a $50K Intraday account with a $2,500 max drawdown locks the floor at $50,000 once equity hits $52,500. This calculator handles that locking behavior automatically.
- Does daily loss limit factor into the drawdown calculation?
- No — the daily loss limit is a SEPARATE rule from the trailing drawdown floor. Daily loss resets each session; trailing drawdown does not. You can bust either limit independently. This calculator surfaces both so you see them side by side.
- Why does my prop firm dashboard show different numbers than this calculator?
- Most likely you're entering an estimated equity high that doesn't match the firm's tracked high. Firms typically track to-the-tick equity continuously while you might only check the dashboard periodically. If you connect TradersForge to your broker via API, we track the equity high tick-by-tick exactly as the firm does — no estimation.
- Does this calculator track multiple accounts?
- This is a single-account snapshot calculator. For multi-account tracking with live drawdown updates across all your prop firm accounts, the full TradersForge product is the answer — every account tracks independently with its own floor, daily loss budget, and profit target progress.
TradersForge is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apex Trader Funding, TopStep, My Funded Futures, Tradeify, Lucid Trading, or Alpha Futures. Plan rules can change — verify current rules with each firm before making trading decisions. Calculator values are estimates.