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I Built a Free Prop Firm Risk Calculator --- Here's Why
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I Built a Free Prop Firm Risk Calculator --- Here's Why

via Dev.to JavaScriptWeerayut Teja3h ago

If you're trading with a prop firm, you already know the drill. Blow your daily drawdown, you're done for the day. Hit your max drawdown, you're done period . Miss the consistency rule, and somehow you still fail even though you were profitable. The math isn't hard, but keeping track of it all while you're in the middle of a live session? That's where things go sideways. So I built a tool to handle it for me --- and now I'm sharing it for free. What it does PropFirm Calculator is a web app (PWA, so you can install it on your phone or desktop) that helps you figure out exactly how much you should be risking per trade given your account rules. You plug in: Account balance Daily drawdown limit Max drawdown limit Profit target Consistency rule (if your firm has one) Win rate & risk/reward ratio And it spits out your safe risk per trade, max daily profit cap, estimated days to pass, expected value per trade --- all the numbers you actually need before you click buy or sell. It also runs a M

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