Instant Funding $625 Challenge — Position Size Calculator

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Your Instant Funding $625 account gives you exactly $31 daily loss room and $63 max drawdown - these are hard stops that will end your challenge instantly. At 1% risk per trade ($6.25), you can handle exactly 4 full losses before hitting the daily limit, but only if you win nothing back. At 2% risk ($12.50), just 2 losses and you're done for the day. Here's where traders get burned: they risk 2-3% thinking it's 'safe' but don't account for partial losses, spread costs, or slippage eating into their buffer. One bad news event with 3 positions at 2% each? You're looking at a potential $37.50 loss - $6.50 over your limit. For position sizing, use this math: Risk Amount ÷ (Stop Loss in Pips × Pip Value) = Lot Size. EURUSD 30-pip stop at 1% risk: $6.25 ÷ (30 × $1) = 0.02 lots. GBPJPY 50-pip stop: $6.25 ÷ (50 × $0.80) = 0.16 lots. Gold 20-point stop: $6.25 ÷ (20 × $0.10) = 3.13 micro lots. The real danger zone is swing trading or holding overnight - a gap against you can blow both daily and max drawdown limits simultaneously. Your Phase 1 target is just $50 (8%), achievable with 8-10 solid 1% wins, but the consistency rule means your biggest winning day can't exceed 15% of total profits on IF1 accounts. So if you make $50 total, no single day can exceed $7.50 in profits. Phase 2 drops to a $31 target (5%) with the same daily loss limits - the math gets tighter, requiring more precision. Most failures happen from position sizing errors, not strategy failures.

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