🏦 Prop rules compared — daily vs total drawdown

Starter thread, pinned. The single fact that fails most challenges: a trailing drawdown follows your equity peak, so one good run can tighten your floor against you — while a daily loss limit resets but still caps how a bad hour hurts. Read the rule text, not the marketing.

Second killer: sizing for the target instead of the rules. If your max daily loss is 5% and you risk 1% per trade, five losses in a day ends the account — that's a normal losing streak, not a disaster. The 1% rule guide and compounding math explain the survival logic.

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