THE DRAWDOWN MACHINE (THE FUNDED FUTURES TRADER Book 1): The Exact Mathematics of Trailing Drawdown, the Equity Floor, and Why Funded Futures Accounts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188588526)

Book 1 - The Drawdown Machine
You didn't lose to the market. You lost to the drawdown. Every funded futures account runs on a hidden piece of machinery: the trailing drawdown engine. It moves. It locks. It ends your account the instant you misread which direction it's tracking, and most traders never see it coming, because the eval account they trained on doesn't work the same way the funded account does.
This book takes that machinery apart. You'll learn the exact formula behind your equity floor, why an End-of-Day trail and an Intraday trail are two completely different risk profiles wearing the same name, and how a single misunderstood "safety" ratchet has ended more funded accounts than bad trades ever did.
Inside:
- The core Floor formula, and how to calculate your real cushion in seconds
- Why the funded account is often stricter than the evaluation that got you there
- The Ratchet: how lock-in mechanics quietly redraw your risk
- Position sizing built against the floor, not your P&L
- Four real bust autopsies, and one account that survived the same trap
- Firm-by-firm rule comparison tables: Apex, Topstep, Take Profit Trader, Tradeify, MyFundedFutures


Author: Tony Pelz
ISBN-13: 9798188588526
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2026
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d