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Strategy and performance

# Fixed fractional

Risking a constant percentage of equity on every trade, so position size falls after losses and rises after gains. It is the standard position-sizing model and the one most prop rules assume.

Also called: Percentage risk · Fixed percentage sizing

GFN’s figure

Against GFN's limits, 0.5% per trade on a $100,000 account is $500 - one sixth of the Instant daily allowance and one tenth of the 1 Step and 2 Step allowance.

- **0.5% risk**: $500 on $100,000
- **1% risk**: $1,000 on $100,000
- **2% risk**: $2,000 on $100,000

In detail

## Fixed fractional, explained

The automatic de-risking is the point: a losing run shrinks the positions taken during it, which is exactly the behaviour a fixed drawdown floor rewards.

The choice of percentage matters more than the entries. The same strategy at 0.5% and at 2% is two different products on an account with a hard floor.

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Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Position size](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/position-size) - How many lots a trade is placed in. It is calculated from the dollar amount being risked and the stop distance, not chosen first - which is the reverse of how most traders approach it.
- [Kelly criterion](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/kelly-criterion) - A formula giving the position size that maximises long-run growth for a known edge. Its output is far too large for real trading, because the inputs are estimates and the drawdowns it accepts are extreme.
- [Risk of ruin](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/risk-of-ruin) - The probability that a sequence of trades takes an account to its breach level before it reaches its target, given a win rate, a reward-to-risk ratio and a risk per trade. It is driven mostly by position size.
- [Maximum consecutive losses](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/maximum-consecutive-losses) - The longest unbroken run of losing trades in a sample. Multiplied by risk per trade it gives the drawdown a strategy has historically produced, which is the figure a fixed floor has to absorb.
- [R-multiple](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/r-multiple) - A trade's result expressed in units of its initial risk. Risking $200 and making $600 is +3R; hitting the stop is -1R. It makes results comparable across account sizes and position sizes.

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