› 01— Start

The prop-firm drawdown checklist, in your inbox.

A short, no-nonsense operating procedure for the only thing that ends a prop-firm challenge: the drawdown lines. Trade your email for the PDF, read it before your next session, run the six binary checks before the first order.

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› 02— What is in the checklist

Six blocks · the drawdown math · and a pre-session checklist.

The PDF is the prop-firm-prep intro lesson condensed into an operating procedure. It is not a signal list and it is not a strategy. It is the same discipline we teach in the curriculum, written so you can run it before the first trade of the day.

  1. 01
    RISK

    Daily drawdown: equity at 00:00 CE(S)T

    FTMO-style daily loss is measured against the equity at the start of the trading day. A floating loss at the reset has already eaten into the cap before the first order.

  2. 02
    RISK

    Overall drawdown: trail the high-water mark

    The overall line trails the high-water mark. A string of small reds pulls equity down faster than the math suggests, and most failed challenges end that way.

  3. 03
    SIZING

    Size against the tightest line

    Work the per-trade risk backwards from whichever cap is tighter (daily or overall), not forwards from what looks fine. 0.5% per-trade on a $100k FTMO challenge buys ~10 losses.

  4. 04
    RISK

    Floating vs balance: equity is the rule

    Both drawdown rules are measured on equity, not balance. A −2% open position is already 40% of the daily cap — holding through a news release on a floating loss is the silent failure path.

  5. 05
    PROCESS

    The recovery-math trap

    If you slip to −8% overall, the equity route back is ~+8.7%. That is one full challenge of work on a still-burning book. Recovery sizing is a re-evaluation moment, not a strategy.

  6. 06
    PROCESS

    Pre-session: six binary checks

    Before the first trade: daily cap positive, overall line clear, per-trade risk matched to W03 sizing, every open position inside plan, no news in the hold window, one-sentence exit written. Any "no" — stand down.

The full PDF adds a closing block on where the operating procedure lives in the Foundations and Prop-Firm Prep tracks so a reader can map it back to the curriculum lessons if they want the deeper context.

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