Firm rules · Trailing drawdown
FTMO — trailing drawdown
Rules read from FTMO's own documentation on 2026-07-31 · rules/ftmo-1step
FTMO's FTMO Challenge (1-Step) models its maximum drawdown as a trailing floor at every account size PropSurvival's corpus carries for this program (50k, 100k, 200k): the threshold tracks the highest end-of-day closed balance and never moves back down. The corpus records no lock condition — the floor keeps trailing for the life of the evaluation.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Allowance | 10% ($5,000) |
| Basis | balance_eod |
| Includes unrealized P&L | Yes |
| Evaluated | eod |
| Locks / freezes | Not recorded |
"establishes an end-of-day trailing limit"Source: https://ftmo.com/en/trading-objectives/ — retrieved 2026-07-16
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