Daily Loss vs. Total Loss: What Actually Ends an Evaluation

Every FundingBulls account is governed by two separate loss limits, and conflating them is the most common reason traders breach accounts they didn't need to breach.

The daily loss limit resets every trading day at 00:00 server time, measured against your equity at the start of that day. Lose more than the limit (5% on standard accounts, 4% on Instant Funding) within a single day, and the account is breached — regardless of how much profit you'd banked on previous days.

The total loss limit is static. It's measured against your account's original starting balance and never moves, even as your balance grows. A $10,000 account with a 10% total loss limit is breached the moment equity touches $9,000 — on day one or day two hundred, it makes no difference.

A trader sitting on +15% profit can still get breached by the daily limit on a single bad day, because the daily limit doesn't care about your cumulative profit — only about today's starting equity.

Conversely, the total loss limit is actually more forgiving than it sounds for a profitable trader, because it never moves upward. Some firms trail their max loss limit up with your equity high-water mark, effectively shrinking your risk budget as you make money. FundingBulls doesn't do that — your total loss floor stays fixed at your starting balance for the life of the account.

Size positions against the daily limit, not the total limit. On a $10,000 account with a 5% daily limit ($500), a single trade risking more than 1-2% of that budget ($5-10) on a stop-loss is usually too aggressive for consistent survival — professional risk management typically caps single-trade risk well inside the daily allowance, not up against it.