Basically Futures

STAGE 6 · LESSON 4 OF 5

Risk limits change across environments

The same method interacts differently with cash accounts, futures brokerage margin and evaluation constraints.

THE IDEA~8–12 MINUTES

Understand it

A personal brokerage account is subject to your capital, broker margin and exchange rules. A prop evaluation can impose additional daily stops, trailing drawdowns, position caps, news rules and payout conditions. Simulation may ignore some execution costs. Translate a strategy's historical path into the specific rules and check whether its intratrade drawdowns are actually observable in your data. Do not change a research result to 'fit' a provider after the fact without retesting.

WORKED EXAMPLE

A strategy's end-of-day profit series may miss a morning equity peak followed by a late pullback. That matters for intraday-trailing account limits even when the closing day is profitable.

Watch for this misconception

Assuming end-of-day P&L is enough to validate intraday max-drawdown compliance.

PRACTICE EXERCISE

Compare your hypothetical daily risk protocol against two different account rule sets.

Readiness checklist ↗
KNOWLEDGE CHECK

What data might be needed to assess an intraday trailing loss limit?

Select the best answer

Check the sources

Hypothetical educational examples. Verify current product specifications and rules before making decisions.