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Understanding drawdown before you fund a trading account
February 28, 2026
Return without drawdown is marketing. Drawdown is the path the equity curve actually took to get there.
AlgoX's verified track record shows a maximum drawdown of 25.36% alongside +199.25% total gain. That number is not a failure of the product. It is the cost of staying in a leveraged market long enough for the edge to show up.
Read drawdown as a planning tool. If a 25% decline would force you to pull capital, the account is too large for your situation. Size the account so that a historically observed drawdown is uncomfortable, not existential.
Past drawdown is not a cap. Future conditions can be worse. That is why the landing page puts risk next to performance instead of burying it in a footnote.