A personal daily stop is a lockout. A firm’s daily loss is often an account funeral.
Numbers first: traders copy a percentage from a prop FAQ onto their own account and think they have copied the rule — they have copied a number. Answer first: the consequence is the rule: lockout on a self-funded book, often evaluation-ending at a firm.
If you model a personal 3% day-stop as evaluation-ending, the engine will report a harsher world than the one you actually live in. If you model a firm’s hard daily loss as “I’ll just come back tomorrow,” you will get a kinder world than the contract. Run the dial as lockout or off at app?rules=personal&src=b2-daily-loss.
Two objects that share a percentage
| Personal daily stop | Firm daily loss (typical) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who writes it | You | The published rulebook |
| On breach | Lockout — the day ends, the account continues | Often account-fail — the evaluation ends |
| Reset | Your clock (session, midnight, whatever you actually use) | The firm’s clock, sometimes timezone-ambiguous |
| Interaction with max DD | A pause that can save the floor | A second, faster funeral next to the max-loss floor |
| Can it be off | Yes — record off, do not leave it blank | Only if the corpus says the program has none |
The personal widget states this in the open: “A daily-stop breach is modeled as a lockout: trading halts for that day and the account continues tomorrow, since a self-imposed limit works differently from a firm’s enforced one.” That sentence is the mapping. It is also why copying a firm’s 2% or 3% onto the personal dial, then reading the result as if you were in that firm, is a category error.
Worked arithmetic
Account $100,000. Daily stop 3% = $3,000. Max drawdown 10% = $10,000. A path that loses $3,100 before noon:
- Personal lockout: trading stops. Equity is $96,900. Tomorrow the path may continue. The max-drawdown clock is still running; the day-stop has consumed one session, not the account.
- Firm hard daily loss: many published books treat that print as evaluation-ending. The path is dead at the daily clause, even though $6,900 of total-drawdown room remained.
Those two terminals are different rows in the engine’s fail order. Which rule breaks first is the prop-side ranking of clauses by expected trades to breach. The personal-side question is simply: did you tell the engine the truth about the consequence?
Some firms publish a soft daily pause (lockout, not fail). That is closer to the personal object. The corpus records which is which per program — do not generalise from one FAQ. This page names no firm’s pass rate and does not rank programs.
How to set the dial without lying to yourself
- Write, in one sentence, what you actually do after a red morning. If the answer is “I stop and come back tomorrow,” you want lockout (the personal widget’s default).
- If you are modeling a firm you are considering, pick that firm on /app instead of stuffing its percentage into personal mode. Personal mode will not enforce their funeral.
- If you have no daily stop, tick No daily stop. A blank 0 is not “off.”
- Fill the other eight dials from the book, not from a challenge sales page. Mapping: nine dials from a broker book. The self-funded reading: your own futures account has a floor.
The mechanism of a daily loss — what the number even measures — is already a full article: What a daily loss limit actually measures. The cost of that clause on a prop evaluation is What a daily loss limit really costs. This page exists because neither of those is the personal lockout.
Working backwards: free path before you paste a firm funeral onto a personal lockout.
Numbers first: $100,000 account · 3% day-stop = $3,000 · 10% max DD = $10,000. A $3,100 morning is a lockout under personal rules and often an account-fail under a hard firm daily loss. Answer first: set the daily stop as lockout or off on the free personal path — do not stuff a firm FAQ into personal mode.
Simulated result from user-supplied inputs · not investment advice. PropSurvival does not rank firms, does not promise outcomes, and does not treat a personal percentage as a firm’s published rule. Trades never leave the device.