Libraries: Contract Sizer: ladder, floor and a breaker that survives a deposit
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Contract Sizer: ladder, floor and a breaker that survives a deposit:
Three position-sizing protections that do different things; confusing them is why so many accounts get wiped out: - ladder: one contract per X of balance, always applied as a CAP, even with manual lot sizing; - floor: below the minimum capital it does not trade; a new deposit is needed; - breaker: stops at X% below the peak, at any account size, and does not rearm by itself. What this library solves and almost none does: a deposit is not profit, and a withdrawal is not a loss. The breaker measures the drop against the balance peak. Untreated, a deposit made DURING a drawdown lifts balance and peak together, and the protection stops seeing the drop exactly when it would help. Here deposits and withdrawals shift the peak by the same amount. The peak is persisted to a file: a breaker that forgets the peak on a terminal restart is not a breaker. The demo simulates a deposit at the bottom of a drawdown. Run it with the deposit on and off and compare the "drop" column.
Author: Joao Prata Silva Yglesias