Net per dollar of drawdown: why our #1 strategy isn't the biggest earner
Anchor MNQ made $38.6k over eighteen months on a $2.1k max drawdown, about $18 of net for every dollar of drawdown the account had to survive, and that ratio, not the net, makes it #1 of 32 in our ranking (source: PV_EDGE Master Data, ranking 2026-10).
What does net per dollar of drawdown measure?
Divide the net of the window by the max drawdown of the same window. The result is how much the strategy paid for every dollar of pain the account went through. A track that earns $40k on a $10k drawdown and a track that earns $20k on a $2k drawdown are not equal on a prop account, even though the first made twice as much.
Why does it come first in the score?
Because prop firm accounts are limited by drawdown, not by ambition. A trailing floor or a static floor ends the account at a fixed distance from the peak. The strategy that earns the most per dollar of that distance is the one that survives the longest. The blow rate and the day profit factor come second and third.
How do the top tracks compare?
| Track | Net | Max DD | Net per $1 of DD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor MNQ | $38.6k | $2.1k | ≈ $18 |
| Anchor NAS | $40.8k | $3.3k | ≈ $12 |
| GAP MGC | $23.8k | $1.8k | ≈ $13 |
The full quarter, who climbed and who moved down, is in Strategy ranking, risk before return, and the table itself on the ranking page.
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Is a higher ratio always better? It means the track earned more per unit of drawdown over that window. A longer window, and the blow rate next to it, say how repeatable that was.
How often is it recalculated? Once a quarter, on data to the quarter's end. The 2026-10 edition uses data to September 30, 2026.
Modeled and live layers are labeled separately. Monte Carlo figures (1,500 paths × 3 years) are a forecast. Hypothetical performance; past results do not guarantee future returns. Not financial advice.