One of the most important mechanics to understand on a Solo Clash account is how the drawdown floor behaves as your profits grow.
The floor does not just protect you from losses. Once a threshold is reached, it locks in your gains permanently.
The Trailing Phase
In accounts where the trailing drawdown applies (Limitless, Legacy Evaluation, Liquid Evaluation, and Express for all three programs), the floor rises in step with your account balance. Every time you close a day at a new high, the floor moves up with it.
This means the better you trade, the more protected you become. A strong run of profitable days pushes the floor upward, reducing the amount of your profits that can be lost before the account is breached.
When the Floor Locks
The trailing stops, and the floor becomes permanent, once your profit reaches your account’s maximum drawdown plus $100.
Legacy and Limitless
4% accounts (Legacy Express Eval, Limitless and Liquid Starter and Lite): floor locks at 4% + $100 profit above your initial balance
3% accounts (Limitless Pro and Max, Liquid Pro): floor locks at 3% + $100 profit above your initial balance
2.6% accounts (Liquid Max): floor locks at 2.6% + $100 profit above your initial balance
At that point, on every program, the floor is fixed permanently at:
Initial Account Balance + $100
It does not move further, up or down, for the remainder of your Express or Live phases.
A Practical Example
$50,000 Legacy, Limitless or Liquid Lite account (4% trailing drawdown):
Stage | Account Balance | Drawdown Floor |
Account opens | $50,000 | $48,000 |
After strong week | $51,000 | $49,000 (trailing) |
Floor locks | $52,100 | $50,100 (locked) |
After further profits | $55,000 | $50,100 (unchanged) |
Once locked at $50,100, that floor holds permanently, through Express and through Live, regardless of subsequent drawdowns.
Liquid Accounts: The Daily Loss Limit
Liquid accounts carry one extra rule alongside the floor: a daily loss limit set at half your maximum drawdown ($500 / $1,000 / $1,500 / $1,950 for Starter, Lite, Pro and Max).
It is measured on intraday equity, so unrealised losses on open positions count, and reaching it is a hard breach even if your floor is still far away.
The daily limit applies in the Evaluation and Express phases. Whichever limit you hit first ends the account. Close to a locked floor, the floor will bind first; the daily limit never gives you extra room below it.
Why This Matters
The locked floor at initial balance + $100 means that once you have traded well enough to trigger the lock, your account can never be breached while it sits above your original starting balance plus $100.
Your downside is permanently contained, and all profits above that floor are yours to withdraw.
One caution: the floor does not move down to make room for a payout. If you withdraw down close to a locked floor, a single losing day can end the account, so leave a working buffer above it.
This is why building profits steadily in the Express Phase pays off beyond just the payouts themselves.