How much could ignoring my daily loss limit cost me over a month?
Enter Your Pattern
Trading days per month and account size are optional and only add context to the result.
Your Result
Enter your overage amount and violation frequency, then click Simulate.
How this is calculated
This is a hypothetical projection built entirely from the numbers you enter, not a prediction of your actual future results.
It assumes the pattern you describe, a fixed overage amount on a fixed number of days per month, repeats steadily. Actual trading results vary trade to trade and month to month.
The goal is to make the compounding cost of "just this once" violations concrete. A loss limit that gets ignored a few times a month isn't a rare exception, it's a recurring cost with an actual dollar total attached.
If this number is uncomfortable, the fix is enforcing the stop-trading rule earlier in the day, not raising the limit to match what you're already doing.
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