Slippage & micro-breaches: “I only went over by $0.01”

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TL;DR

Yes, $0.01 counts. Drawdown rules are equity-based and moment-in-time. If it prints below the line, even briefly, it’s a breach. As the Brits say: “Tuppence is tuppence.”

How it works

Equity includes floating PnL and costs, so spread spikes and slippage can push you over the threshold.

Common gotchas

  • Don’t trade “on the line.” Give yourself a buffer.
  • Avoid high-vol windows: rollover, thin liquidity, red news spikes.
  • Use hard SLs. “I’ll close it manually” is often too slow against volatility.
  • Pending orders can trigger when you’re not looking, handle them like live grenades.

Example

You’re down -4.9% on a 5% daily limit. Spread widens, stop slips, equity prints -5.01% = hard breach. You can “but it came back” all you want, a line must be drawn. The print happened, you lost the account.

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