Guide
Trailing vs EOD drawdown
Static, end-of-day trailing, and intraday trailing drawdown, and how Preflight Desk scores each.
Key rules at a glance
- Drawdown How far the account can fall before it fails. A static floor stays put. A trailing floor follows profit.
- Static or trailing
- Daily loss The loss that ends the day. Soft means you can keep trading. Hard means the account stops.
- Hard, soft, or none
- Consistency A cap on how much profit can come from one day, or a daily profit cap that deletes the extra.
- Best-day cap
- Payout How often you can request a withdrawal, plus any wait, cap, or profit you must leave in.
- Cadence and gates
- News Whether a news release can block the order or take back most of the profit.
- Ban or haircut
Static drawdown is a fixed floor. It does not follow your equity up.
End-of-day trailing updates the floor from the close, then can lock. An intraday touch can still breach if the firm says so.
Intraday trailing moves the floor while the trade is open. That is the tightest of the three.
We score static 0, end-of-day trailing 12, and intraday trailing 25. If the firm page never names the type, the cell stays blank.