Daily loss and intraday net low

A daily loss rule grades net P&L, so a green day can never break it. The intraday net low rule is the one that catches the drawdown you recovered from.

Same on every platform Updated 26 July 2026

What this does

These are two rules that sound like the same rule and are not. Setting up the wrong one is the most common reason people say the Rules Tracker “missed” a bad day.

Daily loss grades where you finished

A daily loss rule looks at your net P&L for the whole day. Winners offset losers.

day net = Σ P&L of every trade that closed that day
Followed when day net ≥ your limit

A day that closes green is always Followed. It does not matter how far underwater you went during the session. If you were down 9,000 dollars at 11am and closed the day up 400, a minus 5,000 daily loss rule reads that as a day you respected.

That is intentional. The rule is answering “did you stop when the day was lost”, and the day was not lost.

Intraday net low grades where you went

An intraday net low rule walks your trades in the order they closed, keeps a running net starting at zero, and remembers the lowest point that running total ever reached.

Not Followed when the running net ever dips below your limit,
even if the day closes green

This is the rule that catches the round trip. Set it if what worries you is the size of the hole, not the final number.

The two together

Set both, with different numbers. A common pairing:

Rule	Limit	What it catches
Daily loss	minus 5,000	Days you kept trading a losing session
Intraday net low	minus 7,500	Days you dug a hole and climbed out

A day can fail one and pass the other, and that split is the useful part. The evidence string on the intraday rule spells it out: intraday low $-7,800, closed $420 net across accounts (limit $-7500).

Both are negative numbers

Enter both as red lines below zero. The builder refuses anything else with “Loss red-lines must be negative (e.g. -2000).”

Both also carry the across-accounts switch, so you can decide whether a green account is allowed to cover a blown one. See Rules across multiple accounts.

This is not the 500 dollar figure on the Discipline tab

The Discipline tab in the CDI breakdown has a row called DAILY LOSS ADHERENCE, and it uses a fixed 500 dollar limit that has nothing to do with your rules. Your Rules Tracker limits do not change it, and it does not change your rules. See How Discipline is calculated.

What you should see

Open a day in the Day Detail panel and read the evidence line under each rule. The daily loss rule always quotes the day’s closing net. The intraday rule quotes both the low and the close, so you can see the gap between them.

If it doesn’t work

A terrible day scored Elite. Every rule you have graded clean, because the day closed green. Add an intraday net low rule.
The intraday rule fired on a day you thought was fine. Check the low it quotes. The running total is per closed trade, so a large loser closing early can put you deep before the winners land.
Neither rule fired and you know you blew through the limit. Check whether the trades for that day actually imported, and check the across-accounts setting.

The six rule types explained What each kind of rule measures, exactly when it passes, and the only one that can score a half point. Rules across multiple accounts The across-accounts switch decides whether your loss limits are measured on the total or on your worst single account. How Discipline is calculated The four internal buckets behind Discipline, the four-day recency weighting, and why the Discipline tab uses a 500 dollar loss limit that is not the one you set.

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