Two numbers decide whether an account survives: how much of it a single losing trade costs, and how deep a drawdown it must climb out of. Both are arithmetic, not opinion.
| Account (USDT) | |
| Leverage | x |
| Adverse move | % |
| Risk per trade | % of account |
A 20% loss needs +25% to get back. A 50% loss needs +100%. An 80% loss needs +400%. This is why capping the downside matters more than catching the upside — and why a lead trader with a 68% max drawdown is not "aggressive", he is one repeat away from zero.
| Drawdown | Gain needed to recover |
|---|---|
| 10% | +11% |
| 20% | +25% |
| 30% | +43% |
| 50% | +100% |
| 68% | +213% |
| 90% | +900% |
Independent analysis of publicly available Binance copy-trading data. Not affiliated with Binance. Not financial advice. All figures come from Binance's public API at crawl time.