Drawdown recovery planner
How long the climb back takes, and why sizing up backfires.
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Percentage change calculator
The change between two prices or balances in percent, and the change it takes to get back.
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The two numbers
The change
From 100 to 80 is -20.00%. Back to 100 takes +25.00%.
- The difference
- -20, 0.8000 times the start.
- Why the two differ
- The way back is worked out on the smaller number, so a fall is undone by a bigger rise.
A fall and the rise that undoes it.
| Fall | Rise back to even |
|---|---|
| -5% | +5.3% |
| -10% | +11.1% |
| -20% | +25.0% |
| -25% | +33.3% |
| -33.3% | +49.9% |
| -50% | +100.0% |
| -75% | +300.0% |
| -90% | +900.0% |
Education only, not investment advice. The answer comes from the numbers you typed in, not from your account or the market. Simulated results are hypothetical and have limits: real trading has slippage, gaps, changing results and emotions. Trading leveraged products can lose money quickly, including all of it. Risk warning
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Losses weigh more than gains
A price that falls from 100 to 80 has lost 20%, but getting back to 100 takes 25%, because the rise starts from 80. At 50% down the way back is 100%, and at 90% down it is 900%. That is why a deep drawdown takes so long to climb out of, and why keeping losses small matters more than any single big win.
To plan the climb back for an account, use the drawdown recovery planner; for a trade's result after costs, the profit and loss calculator.
Arithmetic on the numbers you type.
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