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Each card is one firm's real $50K rule set, exactly as the Sim Lab grades it: profit target, max loss, drawdown and the markets that firm lets you trade. Practice under any of them FREE, and pass to earn that firm's badge.

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Drawdown

The part that fails most traders

Three kinds of drawdown

Every exam has a max loss, but how that line moves is what makes one firm's rules harder than another's. Examples use a $50K account with a $2,000 max loss, so you start with a fail line at $48,000.

Static

The fail line never moves. It stays at $48,000 however much you make, so profits become a cushion.

End-of-day trailing

After each day, the line moves up to $2,000 below your best closing balance, and never back down. Losses during the day don't move it; they only count if you hit the line.

Intraday trailing

The line follows your highest balance in real time, open profits included. Give back a winning trade and the line is already closer. The strictest of the three.

In the Sim Lab a trailing line stops rising once it reaches your $50,000 starting balance. New to the words? Every rule explained in Prop 101 →

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