Help CenterMax Exposure limits the floating loss of a single trade idea, measured as a percentage of your equity at the moment that idea was opened.
🧩 What counts as one trade idea
A trade idea is every position expressing the same directional view: the same instrument or a correlated one, in the same direction, overlapping in time. All of them are measured together.
📏 How it is measured
The limit is a percentage of your equity at the moment the idea was opened — not your current equity, and not your starting balance.
Example: on a $10,000 account with a 3% limit, an idea opened while your equity stood at $10,000 may run a floating loss of up to $300. Open the next idea when your equity is $11,000 and that one is measured against $330 instead.
The loss is floating: you do not need to close anything for a breach to register. It is enough for the idea's drawdown to touch the limit at any moment.
Each open idea is measured on its own, from the moment it is opened until it is closed. There is no time window after which an idea stops being measured, and two open ideas are never added together.
🔢 How violations are counted
Touching the limit counts as one violation for that idea, however many times it happens.
Example #2 on the same $10,000 account, with a limit of $300 per idea:
• Monday. Your long XAUUSD drifts to −$340. That is violation one. You leave it open, it recovers to −$100, then falls to −$380 — no new violation, because it is the same idea.
• Tuesday. That idea is still open and still measured. You also open a long EURUSD, which drifts to −$310. That is violation two: a separate idea with its own measurement.
The count does not reset within one account. Each evaluation phase or passing to a funded stage is a separate account, so the count starts again in a new phase.
⚠️ What happens at the limit
This depends on your plan. On Instant, a single violation closes the account immediately. On our Challenge plans, the first violations are warnings and the account closes on a later one. Your web terminal shows where you stand as "N of N".
The complete set of risk rules that applies to your account is set out in Risk Rules.