Help CenterYour Overall Loss limit is the floor your equity may never reach, for the whole life of the account.
📏 How it is measured
The limit is measured from your starting balance: your starting balance minus the percentage set for your plan. It is a single level, not a daily allowance.
Example: on a $10,000 account with a 10% overall limit, your floor is $9,000. Your account closes if equity reaches that level, whatever your balance happens to be at the time.
The calculation is based on equity, not balance. Floating profit and loss on open positions counts towards it, and so do commissions and swaps. This means the floor can be reached without closing a single trade.
🔒 The floor does not move
Unlike the daily limit, Overall Loss never resets — not daily, not weekly, not after a profitable trade.
It does not follow your profit upwards either. Grow a $10,000 account to $12,000 and the floor is still $9,000: it stays where your starting balance put it.
⚠️ What happens at the limit
Reaching the floor at any moment closes the account permanently, even if the market recovers afterwards.
The percentage differs by plan. The limit that applies to your account, and how much of it you have used, are shown on the Loss Limit card in your account dashboard.
The complete set of risk rules that applies to your account is set out in Risk Rules.