The desk
A journal, the day measured against your own limits, and your broker’s terms. All three are held in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no account to make.
Today’s session
Today’s logged trades, measured against a daily loss limit and a maximum drawdown you enter yourself. It answers one question — how much room is left before a rule is broken — and states how many more full losses that room is worth.
Your rules
No firm's limits are built in, because they differ by firm, by account size and by stage. Enter the ones on your own account.
Before any of today's results. Everything below is measured from it.
What you intend to risk, as a percentage of the current balance.
Of the starting balance, as your own rules state it.
Of the anchor below, not of today's starting balance.
Which balance the floor is calculated against.
The balance the static drawdown is measured from. Left blank, today's starting balance is used.
The day so far
Enter the balance the account started today with to see the state of the day.
What the day is measured against
Whether they come from a proprietary firm’s rulebook or from a rule made for oneself, daily limits reduce to two numbers: how much may be lost between now and the close, and how far below a reference balance the account may fall before it is finished. Neither is built into this page. Firms differ from each other, accounts differ by size and by stage, and a set of limits shipped with this site would be wrong for most readers within months and wrong without ever saying so.
Both are entered as percentages of a balance given here. The drawdown limit is measured from an anchor rather than from today’s opening balance, because that is how the rule is usually written: a static anchor is a fixed figure, and a trailing anchor follows the highest balance the account has reached, rising with profit and never falling back. Which one applies is a question for the account’s own terms.
Where the figures come from
The day’s result is the realised profit of trades dated today in the journal held in this browser. Open positions are not results and are not counted as such; a trade that closes tomorrow belongs to tomorrow. Nothing is fetched, and no broker account is connected — this reads the same record the journal writes and nothing else.
The starting balance and the risk per trade are filled in from the active broker profile, and switching profile replaces them. Editing either here changes only what this page calculates; the profile itself is untouched until it is edited on its own page.
The count of trades remaining divides the room left by the cash a single full loss would cost at the risk shown. It is deliberately the pessimistic reading — every remaining trade a loss, all of them the same size — because it is the only reading that is safe to have been wrong about.
What this dashboard cannot see
It knows what was logged, and nothing else.
- The day is made of closed trades dated today, in the journal in this browser. A trade that was taken and not logged does not exist here, and a trade logged under yesterday's date belongs to yesterday.
- Nothing intraday is visible. A position that ran a long way against the account before closing at break-even leaves no mark on these figures, although it may well have breached a live drawdown rule at the broker while it was open.
- Costs are counted only where they were entered on the trade. A commission left out of the fees field is a loss this page does not know about.
- The rules are your statement of your rules. Nothing is checked against any firm's terms, and where the two disagree it is the firm's terms that end an account.
- Trades until the limit is reached assumes every remaining trade is a full loss at the risk shown, which is the pessimistic count rather than the likely one. With no risk per trade entered it cannot be counted at all, and is shown as a dash rather than as zero.
Figures come from the journal in this browser. Nothing on this page is sent anywhere. See our privacy policy.
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