EURUSD H2 — Optimised Settings

Minimum account balance — $389.58

Running 0.01 lot on EURUSD at 1:500 leverage needs about $389.58 of balance. The binding constraint is drawdown budget.

• Margin is charged on notional value, so one 0.01-lot USD-quoted position costs $2.37; the peak stack of 0.14 lots therefore needed $33.22.
• Margin is not released while a position is underwater. At the worst moment the stack carried $229.58 of floating loss on top of that margin, which is why $262.80 is the floor, not $33.22.
• The drawdown budget is the real requirement on most of these presets: $389.58 = 2.0 x the $194.79 worst backtest drawdown. Half of that is the headroom that makes the strategy survivable rather than merely funded.

Burn-in note: this is a grid with no stop loss (InpStopLoss = 0, so losses are only closed by the basket TP or the protection switch) at 99% exposure, so the tail is unbounded in principle. The figure above is sized on this 19-month sample; a sustained trend can exceed it.