// ftmo max loss
FTMO’s overall maximum loss is 10% on every path, but how that floor behaves is completely different on the 1-Step versus the 2-Step, and getting it wrong is how funded accounts die quietly.
Where’s your max-loss floor right now? Free · handles both static and trailing Open the calculatorOn the 2-Step path the maximum loss is a static floor at 10% below your initial balance: $90,000 on a $100,000 account. It never moves, up or down. As long as your balance and equity stay above $90,000, you’re alive.
On the 1-Step path the maximum loss trails: the floor follows your highest end-of-day balance (your balance at 00:00 CE(S)T, midnight Prague time), staying 10% of your starting balance below it. So as you make money, the floor rises behind you.
The key detail traders miss: it only ever moves up. FTMO says the limit “can only increase, but never decrease”, and its published rules give no point where it stops rising. A good week lifts the floor, and a bad day after it doesn’t bring the floor back down. Because it follows end-of-day balance, an open profit you never close doesn’t move it. It resets only when a payout is withdrawn and FTMO issues a new FTMO Account.
Is FTMO max drawdown static or trailing?
It depends on the path. The 2-Step uses a static floor 10% below your initial balance. The 1-Step uses a 10% trailing drawdown that follows your highest end-of-day balance and can only move up, never down.
How is FTMO maximum loss calculated?
It is 10% of your initial account size. On the 2-Step that floor is fixed; on the 1-Step it trails your highest end-of-day balance and never moves back down.
Does FTMO max loss include open trades?
Yes. Your equity (including floating P&L on open positions) must stay above the maximum-loss floor at all times.
Where do I check FTMO's own numbers?
In FTMO's Account MetriX, which tracks your trading objectives. Treat it as the authority. What EXIT CODE's live workstation adds is your distance to both floors, in dollars and in losing trades, in front of you before each trade.
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