{"id":468,"date":"2024-01-16T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.myfxbook.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=468"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:00:01","slug":"drawdown","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/knowledge-base\/drawdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The drawdown metric essentially logs the account&#8217;s decline in performance and is also used to showcase the risk that is being taken while trading the account. There are several factors that contribute to the drawdown value:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#f9f9f9\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ae57867da3e068980ac92c9ee9f1b502\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;font-size:18px\"><strong>End-of-day Drawdown<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9aaba5910ebab9b2e5953b38058f47b6\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;font-size:14px\">At the end of each day, if you have any trades left open, our system will capture your equity and floating losses will be recorded as drawdown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-da9f97d67ec2e50d4319ee376f7d9c86\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;font-size:18px\"><strong>Intraday Drawdown<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-efb7219d830b23f6693d1bb44fda860f\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;font-size:14px\">Each time your account updates, the equity of the account during the update is captured and floating losses will be recorded as drawdown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-322049c20238b2a2e4020e858cbf8530\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;font-size:18px\"><strong>Growth Drawdown<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4021cd523f6a6018d6f6601fe282f0a0\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;font-size:14px\">Each day&#8217;s gain is compared to the highest gain achieved prior to this day using the TWR formula. Negative differences are recorded as drawdown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The highest value out of the three will appear as your account&#8217;s drawdown while only the end-of-day and growth drawdown values are used in the drawdown chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-92bb4f4de01f315209aac86abf45c635\" style=\"color:#3d362c;font-size:25px\"><strong>End-of-day Drawdown example<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8206c60602e1949f8ecd22ca78456274 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#a29386;font-size:14px\"><summary>Click here to see an example<\/summary>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2ffdf588988619bc6716062ed59ef7b5\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;background-color:#f9f9f9\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">A trader has an account balance of $1,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The trader opens 5 trades on the Monday and keeps them open until Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">By the end of Monday these trades have an overall floating loss of -$100. This floating loss is recorded as a drawdown of 10%. Since this is the highest drawdown the account has ever experienced, this 10% value will show as the drawdown under the &#8216;Stats&#8217; section and also in the drawdown chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">By the end of Tuesday these trades&#8217; performance slightly improve and the floating loss recorded is -$80. This translates to 8% drawdown which is lower then the value last recorded in the &#8216;Stats&#8217; section, therefore, the drawdown of the account will remain 10%, however, the value in the drawdown chart for Tuesday will log the 8% drawdown (if it&#8217;s the highest drawdown of the day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">On Tuesday the trades are closed during the day, so there will be no end-of-day data for this day since no trades were left open when the day ended.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b87fc48896fd17c8f22f5ddfa0ba3630\" style=\"color:#3d362c;font-size:25px\"><strong>Intraday Drawdown example<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a7e38de230c98812319a13765a138f46 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#a29386;font-size:14px\"><summary>Click here to see an example<\/summary>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-84912341ccb3d7c480e2c39a1b391cc7\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;background-color:#f9f9f9\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">A trader has an account balance of $1,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The user connected his account to Myfxbook using the EA publisher method so his account updates every 5 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">5 minutes after opening the trades, the account updates and the trades are currently at a floating loss of -$10 which translates to 1% drawdown. If this is the highest drawdown the account has experienced, this 1% value will show as the account drawdown under &#8216;Stats&#8217;. However, Intraday drawdown doesn&#8217;t show up in the drawdown chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">After another 5 minutes the account update logged a floating loss of -$50 which translates to 5% drawdown and since this value is higher then the last recorded drawdown value, the account drawdown will now show 5% drawdown.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6c94d6c7909d6db89db76ec672043120\" style=\"color:#3d362c;font-size:25px\"><strong>Growth Drawdown example<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d88c0e40a374b3240ea40f06f44181ff is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#a29386;font-size:14px\"><summary>Click here to see an example<\/summary>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-27660ee3c7abbce360a15669a023f053\" style=\"color:#5a4f45;background-color:#f9f9f9\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">A trader has reached a maximal gain of 40% on Sunday, but since then, he experienced some losing trades which affected his gain &#8211; on Monday the gain value was 30% and on Tuesday it was 35%. Using the TWR formula we can calculate the negative gain difference (drawdown) between the peak gain (40%) and the lower gain on the days that follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1012\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/help.myfxbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116.png 1012w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-300x34.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-768x88.png 768w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-50x6.png 50w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-60x7.png 60w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-100x11.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">So the growth drawdown calculation for Monday will look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/help.myfxbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-1.png 885w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-1-300x39.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-1-768x101.png 768w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-1-50x7.png 50w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-1-60x8.png 60w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-1-100x13.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">And for Tuesday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/help.myfxbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-2.png 885w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-2-300x39.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-2-768x101.png 768w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-2-50x7.png 50w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-2-60x8.png 60w, https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/math-20240116-2-100x13.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drawdown metric essentially logs the account&#8217;s decline in performance and is also used to showcase the risk that is being taken while trading the account. There are several factors that contribute to the drawdown value: End-of-day Drawdown At the end of each day, if you have any trades left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[22],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-468","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/468\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}