FundingPips $100,000 Challenge — Position Size Calculator

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With FundingPips' $100k account, your daily loss limit is exactly $5,000. This means you can take roughly 5 losing trades at 1% risk ($1,000 each) or just 2.5 losing trades at 2% risk ($2,000 each) before hitting your daily limit. The math is unforgiving at this account size - three consecutive 2% losses put you at $6,000 down, already breaching your daily limit by $1,000. Position sizing calculations become critical. For EURUSD with a 30-pip stop loss, risking 1% means calculating: $1,000 ÷ 30 pips = $33.33 per pip, which equals 3.33 standard lots. A 50-pip stop would require 2 standard lots for the same 1% risk. For GBPJPY with its larger pip values, a 30-pip stop might only need 0.8 standard lots to achieve 1% risk. The real danger with FundingPips accounts lies in gap risk and news events. A single trade that gaps beyond your stop loss could easily consume 3-4% of your account in seconds. At this account size, that's $3,000-$4,000 - dangerously close to your $5,000 daily limit from just one position. Between challenge phases, your risk management stays identical. Phase 1 requires hitting $8,000 profit (8%) while Phase 2 needs $5,000 profit (5%), but your $5,000 daily loss limit and $10,000 maximum drawdown remain constant throughout. Many traders make the mistake of increasing position sizes after passing Phase 1, but your risk parameters haven't changed. The 10% maximum drawdown rule means your account equity can never drop below $90,000 from your highest point. If you reach $105,000, your new maximum drawdown level becomes $94,500. This trailing drawdown is often more restrictive than the daily loss limit for traders who build their accounts up significantly. Always calculate both your daily loss remaining AND your distance from maximum drawdown before entering any position.

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