What exactly ends an evaluation?

Written by Phoenix Labs
Risk managementHow each rule is measured, what ends an evaluation, what merely pauses it, the two clocks every account carries, and the strategies that are not allowed.
  • Your equity, open positions included, falling below the drawdown floor, at any moment of the session.
  • Holding a position past the daily close or over the weekend, on an account where holding is not allowed. The rule tables state this for every experiment.
  • Going longer without a trade than your experiment's inactivity rule allows (90 days unless its rule table says otherwise).
  • Trading with a prohibited strategy, such as account rolling or martingale across accounts. See "Which trading strategies are prohibited?"

Nothing else does. A consistency rule, where an experiment has one, never ends an evaluation: it only holds the pass until no single day is more than that share of your profit. There is no minimum number of trades, and no time limit other than the inactivity clock.

When an evaluation ends, your dashboard states the exact reason, including the numbers, on the account card.

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