Firms whose trailing drawdown ratchets on closed-trade balance
A closed-balance trailing floor recalculates after each trade closes, off the highest realized balance the account has reached — it ignores unrealized profit or loss on any position still open, and only moves in response to a completed trade rather than a session close or a live tick. The floor never moves back down.
This sits between the other two trailing variants and is easy to conflate with both: it is not tested every tick (unlike an intraday-equity floor) and it does not wait for the session to end (unlike an end-of-day floor) — it moves the instant a trade is closed, which means the floor can ratchet several times inside a single session on an active day.
| Firm | Its own sourced clause | Retrieved / last checked | Firm rules page |
|---|---|---|---|
| E8 Markets | 6% ($300), off the highest closed balance after each closed trade ""Highest Closed Balance - Drawdown amount (6%) = Loss level" — the ratchet reference is the highest CLOSED-trade balance, not intraday/floating equity"Source: https://help.e8markets.com/en/articles/11782996-dynamic-drawdown |
retrieved 2026-07-30 · last checked 2026-07-30 | E8 Markets — Trailing drawdown |
| SabioTrade | 6% ($1,200), off the highest closed balance after each closed trade ""the highest balance your account has ever reached based on closed trades" / "highest recorded closed balance" (both readers, describing the anchor) vs. "traders must not allow their EQUITY to drop..." (both readers, describing the tested quantity)."Source: https://sabiotrade.com/terms |
retrieved 2026-07-31 · last checked 2026-07-31 | SabioTrade — Trailing drawdown |
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