Position Sizer for UltraCap Trading Accreditation Plans

Jan 28, 2023

When you enter a typical trading challenge, you are told that your accreditation assessment demo account is funded up to a certain amount. You are then told that you can only lose a small percentage of that account before you fail the accreditation/challenge. For example, if you are given a $100,000 dollar challenge demo account and are told that you can only lose up to 8% of that account ($8,000), then in reality, you really only have $8,000 to "trade" with before the game is over. That suggests that we need a risk management system that is initially based on the "true" amount of capital that we actually have to work with at the beginning of the assessment rather than an imaginary demo balance the prop firm gives us. Traditional forex risk management principles mandate that you never risk more than 2% of your trading capital on any one trade, the idea being that as long as your win rate is above some abysmally low level, it will take you a (hopefully) long time to run out of trading capital. That’s why the rules for passing an accreditation at the prop firm Ultra Cap mandate that you never risk more than 2% of your balance, or you will fail the assessment. With that in mind, I created this indicator/tool mostly for UltraCap accreditation candidates. In addition to using it to pass a prop firm assessment, you can also use it to increase your chances of surviving in an undercapitalized trading situation with your own money. For example, you could trade an actual $8,000 dollars (money that you really have) as if it were $100,000 (which is basically what any prop firm is asking you to do when they "give" you "$100,000" to trade with but only allow you lose a maximum of $8000). In that particular situation, the algorithm in this pricing model will base your initial risk exposure on an assumed account balance of $8000, and as you increase your balance, it proportionally increases risk exposure in the background until you reach a profit level of 6%, which just so happens to be the profit goal at Ultra Cap that gets you funded! This indicator uses a simple linear equation to progressively increase the risk exposure in the background based on your current stated account balance. Initially, your trade size will seem ridiculously small, but if your win rate holds up, the trade sizes will increase substantially as you get closer to the finish line.