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Drawdown recovery calculator
A loss and the gain that undoes it aren't the same size. See how much you need to make back.
The gap grows fast
Gain needed = 1 ÷ (1 − loss) − 1. Small losses are easy to win back; big ones aren't.
| Account down by | Gain needed to get back |
| 5% | 5.3% |
| 10% | 11.1% |
| 20% | 25.0% |
| 25% | 33.3% |
| 30% | 42.9% |
| 40% | 66.7% |
| 50% | 100.0% |
| 60% | 150.0% |
| 75% | 300.0% |
| 90% | 900.0% |
That's why protecting the downside matters more than chasing the upside, and why a strategy that sometimes loses half the account is worse than its average return suggests.
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