Fixed risk limit
Static drawdown prop firm
Core Funded is a static drawdown prop firm: your max total loss is set once from the starting balance and doesn't move as your balance grows. On a $100,000 2-Step account the floor is $92,000 on day one and still $92,000 when you are $15,000 in profit.
Static max total loss by account type on a $100,000 account
| Account type | Max total loss | Loss floor on $100,000 | Max daily loss | Price ($100K) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instant | 5% | $95,000 | 3% | 1,195€ |
| 1-Step | 6% | $94,000 | 3% | 735€ |
| 2-Step | 8% | $92,000 | 5% | 495€ |
| 2-Step Flex | 12% | $88,000 | None | 745€ |
Static vs. trailing drawdown
A static drawdown is calculated once from the starting balance and stays at that level for the life of the account. A trailing drawdown moves up as your equity grows, following each new high and keeping the room you have to lose the same size or smaller.
With a static drawdown, every dollar of profit widens the gap between your equity and the floor. The buffer you build is yours to keep: it doesn't shrink back after a strong run of trades, which is exactly what a trailing drawdown would do.
Core Funded uses a static max total loss on every account type: Instant, 1-Step, 2-Step and 2-Step Flex. The percentage differs by type, but in every case it is set once and never trails your profits.
How the static max total loss is set
The max total loss is a fixed percentage of your starting balance: 5% for Instant, 6% for 1-Step, 8% for 2-Step and 12% for 2-Step Flex. That percentage becomes a dollar floor the moment the account starts and is never recalculated against a higher balance.
The floor includes everything: closed losses, fees and open positions. Your equity, meaning balance plus open positions, must never fall below it. If it does, the account is stopped immediately.
The daily loss limit runs alongside it
The static floor is your overall limit. The max daily loss is a second, separate limit for a single day: 3% on Instant and 1-Step, 5% on 2-Step, and none on 2-Step Flex. It is set every day at 00:00 UTC from the higher of balance or equity, minus the daily percentage of the starting balance.
On a $100,000 Instant account with an open trade at +$2,000 at midnight, equity is $102,000 and may not fall below $99,000 that day. If the open trade is at −$2,000 instead, the higher balance of $100,000 is the basis and the daily floor is $97,000. The static floor of $95,000 applies the whole time.
Why the buffer matters for payouts
On a funded account, each payout request can include up to 50% of your total profit, capped at $2,500 on accounts up to $100,000 and $5,000 above. The profit you leave in the account stays as a buffer above the static floor.
Because the floor doesn't move, that buffer is real room: after a payout from a $106,000 balance on a $100,000 2-Step account, you still have the remaining profit plus the full 8% between you and $92,000.
2-Step Flex: the widest static floor
2-Step Flex combines the widest static total loss, 12%, with no daily loss limit at all. On $100,000 the floor sits at $88,000 and there is no separate daily line to watch. Flex is available from $5,000 to $100,000, from 69€, and needs 5 minimum trading days per phase.
Phases, funded stage and scaling
When you pass a phase, you keep the same account and login and the balance is reset to the starting balance, so the floor is the same dollar level in every phase and on the funded account. On a $100,000 1-Step account that is $94,000 in the challenge and $94,000 once funded.
On the funded account, the scaling plan can grow your capital by 25% of the starting balance for every 3-month period with 12% profit, up to $10,000,000. A static floor works in your favour here too: the profit you build toward that 12% widens your room instead of moving the limit.
Example: $100,000 2-Step account
A $100,000 2-Step account carries an 8% static max total loss, fixed at $92,000 from the very first trade.
- Starting balance
- $100,000
- Static floor (8%)
- $92,000
- Room on day one
- $8,000
- Balance reaches $108,000
- Floor stays at $92,000, room is now $16,000
- Same account with an 8% trailing drawdown
- Floor would have moved to $100,000, room still $8,000
- Bad week, balance back to $101,000
- Static: $9,000 of room left · Trailing: account already stopped
Profit widens the gap to the static floor instead of dragging the floor up behind you. A pullback that a trailing drawdown would punish is just part of trading here.
Who benefits from a static drawdown
- Traders who want one fixed loss number instead of a moving target
- Traders who build a buffer over time and want to keep the room they earn
- Swing traders whose open positions swing in both directions before they close
- Traders who hold positions overnight or over the weekend and want a clear, unmoving limit
- Anyone comparing prop firms who wants to know the exact floor before the first trade
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