Drawdown · 2 min read

Static drawdown

A static drawdown is a fixed loss floor set at account opening that never moves, regardless of how much profit the account makes.

How it works

The floor sits at a fixed amount below the starting balance and stays there permanently. Profit accumulates above it without changing the constraint, so the distance between balance and floor grows with every winning day. This is the most forgiving of the three common models and the least common on evaluations, though several firms offer it as a plan variant.

Why it matters on a funded account

For a systematic strategy a static floor means the risk calculation is done once and remains valid. Trailing models require the size calculation to be repeated as the floor moves; a static floor does not. Where a firm offers both, the static plan usually carries a higher fee or a lower profit split — the forgiveness is priced.

Which prop firms use a static drawdown?

24 of the 40 firms on our rules cards run a static floor on at least one account type (September 2026): nearly every CFD firm, and among futures firms Phidias (Express to Live), Elite Trader Funding (Static), Leeloo Trading, UProfit (ONE 50K) and, as a legacy option, MyFundedFutures (Flex). The firm-by-firm list with amounts and the stage it applies to is on prop firms with static drawdown.

FAQ

What is static drawdown?

A maximum loss floor fixed at account opening that does not move when the account makes profit. Losing more than the fixed amount from the starting balance ends the account; profit above it only widens the buffer.

Is static drawdown better than trailing?

For a systematic strategy it is the most forgiving model because position sizing is calculated once and stays valid; firms price that in with higher fees or lower splits on static plans.

Do futures prop firms offer static drawdown?

A minority do, as a separate product: the table above lists every firm whose card shows a static option, with the stage it applies to.