The maximum overall loss — the drawdown limit — ends more funded accounts than any other rule. How it is measured matters as much as the percentage.
Trailing drawdown
With a trailing drawdown, the loss limit follows your highest balance or equity upward. Make $3,000 on a $50,000 account with a $3,000 trailing limit and your floor rises from $47,000 to $50,000. You are in profit, yet you have no more room than on day one.
Static drawdown
A static drawdown is set once, from your starting balance, and never moves. On a $50,000 IXU One-Step Standard account the maximum overall loss is 6%, so the floor is $47,000 — whether you are down $500 or up $5,000.
A worked example
- Starting balance: $50,000 on a One-Step Standard account (6% static).
- Floor: $47,000, fixed for the life of the account.
- You grow the account to $54,000. Your floor is still $47,000 — you have $7,000 of room.
- Under a $3,000 trailing limit, the same account's floor would already have climbed to $51,000.
IXU Capital's loss limits by model
- One-Step Standard: 6% overall, 4% daily.
- Two-Step Standard: 10% overall, 5% daily.
- Instant Funding: 6% overall, 3% daily.
- Daily Payouts (One-Step and Two-Step): 8% overall, 4% daily.
Both limits are static and measured from your starting balance on every challenge, and both are hard limits: crossing either one ends the account.
Using a static drawdown well
- Know your floor in dollars before you place a trade.
- Early profit widens your cushion — protect it rather than spend it.
- Size positions from the room you have left, not from the account size.
All IXU Capital accounts are simulated, and this article is educational, not financial advice.