SabioTrade Essential — daily loss limit
SabioTrade Essential's daily loss limit is 5%, and breaching it ends the evaluation — the account fails — measured from your current balance. The rule above is fixed; what it means for your account is not — run your own win rate and average R against SabioTrade's full published rule set in the free calculator at run your own book against SabioTrade — free.
SabioTrade sets a daily loss limit of 5% ($1,000 at the 20k tier, scaling with account size) at every account size PropSurvival's corpus carries for this program (20k, 50k, 100k, 200k, 650k), measured from day-start balance. Breaching it ends the evaluation — the account fails.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Limit | 5% (scales by size) |
| Measured from | day-start balance |
| Includes unrealized P&L | Yes |
| On breach | ends the evaluation — the account fails |
| Resets | 00:00 UTC |
Unresolved in SabioTrade's own documentation (read, not reconciled): the exact UTC time the daily loss limit resets across daylight-saving changes.
Does SabioTrade Essential have a daily loss limit?
Yes — 5% of the account balance.
What happens if you breach SabioTrade Essential's daily loss limit?
Breaching it ends the evaluation — the account fails.
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