Drawdown Calculator

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Understand the impact of drawdowns on your account and see exactly how much gain you need to recover from any loss percentage.

Drawdown Parameters

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What % of your account have you or might you lose?

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% of account you risk on each trade

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Your historical win rate percentage

Why drawdown matters so much

Losses are asymmetric — they require increasingly larger gains to recover:

-10% loss → need +11.1% · -25% → need +33% · -50% → need +100%

This is why protecting capital is more important than chasing profits in forex trading.

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Drawdown vs Recovery Required

This chart shows why avoiding large drawdowns is critical — recovery gets exponentially harder