The STAX account trades this strategy at $5,000 per trade, five trades a day, with a daily profit target. A smaller account can't just divide those numbers — this page shows the settings that let each account size take every trade the strategy took, and what that account would have seen.
The bot buys whole contracts: floor(budget ÷ contract cost). Whatever is left over sits idle. A $5,000 budget buying a $1.45 contract ($145) gets 34 contracts and leaves $70 on the table — 98.6% deployed. A $1,000 budget gets 6 and leaves $130 — 87%. Same trade, same +13%, but the small account earns it on a smaller slice of its budget.
That is why you can't copy the big account's profit target as a ratio. A target sized at 12% of your max capital trips "done for the day" on fewer days when less of that capital is actually in the trade. The settings below were chosen so every account size stops on as many days as the STAX account does.
Measured on the real trades: a $500 cap deploys 83% of itself on average, $750 → 89%, $1,000 → 92%, $1,500 → 94%, $5,000 → 99%.
| Max capital per trade | In the trade, on average |
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The rest is the remainder: what floor(budget ÷ contract cost) could not spend.
| Account | Max capital per trade | Killswitch (daily target) | Trades taken | Days done early | Balance today | Growth | Worst drawdown |
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Max capital is a fixed dollar amount — it does not grow with the balance, so growth here is what a set-and-forget account would have seen. "Done early" is a day the daily target was reached and the bot stopped taking new trades. Select a row to see its balance over time.
The STAX account runs its daily target at 12% of its max capital ($600 on $5,000). The recommended target for each size is the one that reaches "done for the day" on as many days — 10–11% of the cap at the smallest sizes, 12% from about $1,000 per trade up.
The table shows the same account with other targets, as a share of its max capital. In the current era the ending balance barely moves across this range while the worst drawdown does; over the older eras a target cost more of the final. A target somewhere in the 10–15% band has held up in every era.
| Target | Dollars | Balance today | Worst drawdown | Days done early |
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Each era is every trade the dailytrend strategy took in the STAX account: same entry, same exit, same profit per contract. The only thing that changes for a smaller account is how many contracts it can buy — the bot's own rounding-down rule — and therefore the dollars. Nothing is simulated from prices.
A cash account spends its start-of-day balance; money from a trade that closes at 10:30 isn't available again until tomorrow, so several trades in one day need room up front. A margin account can reuse it at once. Under $25,000, pattern-day-trading rules put most accounts on the cash side.
The STAX account was scaled up as it grew: $3,000 per trade through Nov 7, 2025, $4,000 through Mar 13, 2026, $5,000 since. Each era is replayed on its own so a fixed max capital is compared with a fixed one.
Commissions and fees (every figure is gross), fill quality at a different size, and anything about the future. Five trades a day throughout. Data through . This is a description of what happened, not advice.