Exposure and Margin Cap on No Drawdown Plans

No Drawdown plans do not liquidate your account when it moves against you. Instead of a maximum drawdown that can fail the account, they use a maximum exposure or margin cap that limits how much you can have working in the market at once.

What the exposure cap does

On a standard plan, a maximum drawdown can fail or liquidate the account if your balance falls too far. No Drawdown plans remove that liquidation trigger. In its place they set a ceiling on your total open exposure, sometimes described as a margin or buying power cap. As long as you stay under that ceiling, a losing trade will not liquidate the account on drawdown the way it might on a standard plan.

Think of it as a limit on size rather than a limit on losses. The cap controls how large your combined open positions can be at any moment, which keeps risk contained without a trailing or static drawdown rule.

Where to find your exact cap

The exact exposure or margin cap varies by plan, along with your account size, profit target, contract and position size limits, maximum hold time, and maximum allocation risk per position. Because these numbers are set per plan, we never quote them in a general article.

You can see the live figures in two places:

• On the plan cards on the Pricing page, where each No Drawdown variant lists its rules before you buy.
• On your Accounts page once a challenge is active, where the details reflect the exact plan you are trading.

Staying inside the cap

A few habits help you trade comfortably under an exposure cap:

1. Check your remaining room before adding to a position, since the cap applies to your total open exposure, not a single trade.
2. Watch multi leg option strategies and futures size, as combined positions add up against the cap quickly.
3. Use the position and contract limits shown on your account as guardrails, and consider Take Profit and Stop Loss brackets from the close dialog on the Trade terminal to manage risk on the way out.

The full governing details, including prohibited behaviour and how rule breaches are handled, live in the Trading Rules.

If you are unsure how a specific limit applies to your account, check the account details first, and email [email protected] for account-specific help.