Static versus trailing drawdown changes your real risk budget by up to 40%. Here is how to size positions on a ₹10L account under each model.
Almost every failed evaluation we review has the same signature: the trader sized positions against the number printed on the dashboard rather than the number the rulebook actually enforces. Those two figures are rarely the same.
A static drawdown is anchored to your starting balance. On a ₹10,00,000 account with a 6% overall limit, your floor is ₹9,40,000 from day one and it never moves. A trailing drawdown re-anchors to your highest equity point, which means a profitable week silently raises the floor beneath you and shrinks the room you have to be wrong.
The practical consequence is position sizing. Under a static model you can run a fixed 0.5% risk per trade — ₹5,000 on a ₹10L account — for the whole evaluation. Under a trailing model, that same 0.5% becomes progressively more dangerous the more you make.
ForgeFunded uses static drawdown on every account, in every segment, in every phase. We chose it because it is the only model where the risk you calculate on Monday is still the risk you carry on Friday.
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