Maximum Daily Loss Calculator: Stop Trading or Cut Position Size?
A maximum daily loss rule should answer one question before the next order: how much of the session's written loss budget is already consumed after realized P&L, open-position P&L, fees, slippage, and remaining risk to current stops? Enter one start-of-day equity baseline and the limit from your own plan. If current loss or open-position risk can reach that limit, stop adding exposure and verify the account. If only the proposed trade would cross it, reduce that trade's total risk to the displayed allowance or skip it. The calculator is a planning screen, not a universal safe-percentage rule, liquidation instruction, or guarantee that stops will fill. Direct decision: compare the proposed trade with the budget left after existing positions reach their entered exits, not merely with today's realized P&L. Maximum Daily Loss Calculator Use one account, one session boundary, and one written policy. The 2% example is arithmetic only; StockWin doe...