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Drawdown Recovery Calculator

The gain required to get back to your previous equity high — and why it grows non-linearly.

Result
Gain required to recover
25.0 %
Gain per winning trade
1.00 %
Net winning trades needed
25.0
Remaining equity
80.0 %
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Same math, automated: live prices, your account balance and risk rules — plus a prop-firm limit check before you click buy.

  • Live pip value instead of manual input
  • Risk ladder & daily-loss guard
  • Saved to your journal automatically
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The 12 checks to run before every entry — position size, stop logic, correlation and news windows.

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Formula

Required gain % = DD% / (1 − DD%)

How to read the result

  • —A 20% drawdown needs 25% to recover; 50% needs 100%. This asymmetry is the core argument for small risk per trade.

Frequently asked questions

Should I increase size to recover faster?

No — that is the single most common account-killer. Recovery risk should be equal to or smaller than normal risk until equity makes a new high.

Educational tool only. No investment advice. Verify every number against your broker's contract specifications before trading.