Risk Management Tool

Drawdown Calculator

Calculate your maximum drawdown and understand what it takes to recover. Monitor your risk exposure and protect your trading capital.

Account Balances

The highest balance your account reached

Your current account balance

Results

Drawdown Analysis

Drawdown Amount
$1,500.00
Drawdown Percentage
15.00%
Risk Level: MODERATE

Recovery Required

Amount Needed
$1,500.00
Percentage Gain Required
17.65%
Moderate difficulty

MODERATE RISK LEVEL

Your drawdown is moderate. Consider tightening risk management to prevent further losses.

Key Metrics

Peak Balance:$10,000.00
Current Balance:$8,500.00
Break-Even Target:$10,000.00
Gain to Break Even:17.65%

Understanding Drawdown

What is Drawdown? Drawdown is the peak-to-trough decline in your account balance. It measures the largest drop from a historical high to a subsequent low.

Why It Matters: Understanding drawdown helps you assess risk exposure and the difficulty of recovery. A 50% loss requires a 100% gain to break even.

Recovery Challenge: The larger the drawdown percentage, the more difficult it becomes to recover. Professional traders typically limit drawdowns to 20% or less.

Risk Management: Use proper position sizing, stop losses, and risk-reward ratios to prevent excessive drawdowns. Prevention is easier than recovery.