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Drawdown calculator

How far an account has fallen from its peak, and what it takes to recover.

Works without an account Formula printed with the answer Assumptions listed No live price hardcoded

Peak balance

The highest the account reached before the drop. Unit: account currency.

Lowest balance

Unit: account currency.

Balance now (optional) (optional)

Shows how much of the climb back is still ahead. Unit: account currency.

Currency

Nothing is stored or emailed. The maths runs on the figures you typed.

What this tells you

Recovery is asymmetric: a 50 per cent loss needs a 100 per cent gain. Seeing that early changes how people size risk.

Method

Drawdown % = (peak − trough) ÷ peak. Required recovery % = peak ÷ trough − 1. Input either a peak and trough, or a series of period balances from which the maximum adverse excursion is taken.

Where the numbers come from

Contract sizes, pip conventions and session hours come from one published specification table, and the same class answers on the page and through the API. A conversion rate is only ever the figure you enter — the site does not fetch a price, because a hardcoded quote would be wrong for your broker and stale in seconds.

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Drawdown calculator — questions

Why does 20 per cent down need 25 per cent up?

Because the recovery applies to the smaller remaining balance. The table printed with your result shows this for each level.

Drawdown calculator

Drawdown calculator — questions

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