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Prop firm rules, explained with the arithmetic shown
Every guide here is written from rules we have read on the firm's own pages, with a dollar example on a $100,000 account and a list of what we could not verify.
2026-09-05 · 6 min
FTMO Static vs Trailing Drawdown: Two Rules, One Firm
FTMO's 2-Step uses a static 10% maximum loss and its 1-Step uses a trailing one. See what FTMO static vs trailing drawdown costs on a $100,000 account.
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Prop Firm Daily Drawdown Calculation: The Same Account, Five Different Breach Floors
We took one account, on one morning, and applied the published daily loss rule of five forex prop firms to it. The breach floors came out $3,940 apart. The fi
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