Calculate your daily, weekly, and monthly loss limits to protect your trading capital. Know exactly when to stop — before a bad day becomes a blown account.
Calculate your daily, weekly, and monthly loss limits to protect your trading capital. Know exactly when to stop — before a bad day becomes a blown account.
Stop trading for the day when this loss is reached
Set your capital and risk limits to calculate when to stop trading for the day.
DETAILS
This section explains what the calculator does, what goes into the result, and how to interpret the output so you can apply it confidently.
This calculator turns a few key inputs into a clear output you can act on — a number that traders and investors commonly use for planning and decision-making.
Use it to compare scenarios quickly and to understand the trade-offs behind the final result.
Treat the output as a planning number. Small changes in inputs (time, rate, price, quantity, risk, or cashflows) can change the outcome meaningfully — so keep assumptions realistic.
If the tool returns multiple outputs, focus on the ones that drive decisions (e.g., net result, breakeven, or risk-adjusted value), not just the biggest number.
Capital ₹5,00,000, Daily limit 2%, Risk/trade 1%
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Capital ₹2,00,000, Daily limit 1%, Risk/trade 0.5%
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HOW IT WORKS
Your total capital available for trading — this is the base from which loss limits are calculated.
The percentage of capital you allow yourself to lose in a single day before stopping all trading. Most professionals use 1-3%.
See exact rupee amounts for daily, weekly, and monthly limits — and how many losing trades trigger the daily stop.
FAQ
Without a daily loss limit, a bad day can turn catastrophic. Most blown accounts happen not from a single bad trade but from revenge trading after the first bad trade — leading to 5, 6, 10 consecutive losses in one session. A hard daily stop prevents a bad day from becoming a disaster.
Most professional traders use 1-3% of capital as their daily loss limit. Day traders often use 2%. At 2% daily limit and 1% risk per trade, you get stopped after 2 consecutive losses — which is a good signal that conditions are not in your favour that day.
Close all open positions immediately and stop all trading for the rest of the day. Use the time to review what went wrong, journal your trades, and come back fresh the next day. Do NOT try to recover losses the same day — this is where most damage happens.
Weekly limits are important for streaks. If you hit your weekly limit by Tuesday, stop trading for the rest of the week. Monthly limits signal a strategy problem — if you hit the monthly limit, step back, review your playbook, and consider paper trading before going live again.
Automate your daily loss limit tracking
TradeLyser tracks your P&L in real time, alerts you when you approach your daily loss limit, and helps you log every day you respected your rules.