USDCHF M30 — Optimised Settings

Minimum account balance — $648.88

Running 0.01 lot on USDCHF at 1:500 leverage needs about $648.88 of balance. The binding constraint is drawdown budget.

• Margin is charged on notional value, so one 0.01-lot USD-based position costs $2.00; the peak stack of 0.24 lots therefore needed $48.00.
• Margin is not released while a position is underwater. At the worst moment the stack carried $348.29 of floating loss on top of that margin, which is why $396.29 is the floor, not $48.00.
• The drawdown budget is the real requirement on most of these presets: $648.88 = 2.0 x the $324.44 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 100% exposure, so the tail is unbounded in principle. The figure above is sized on this 19-month sample; a sustained trend can exceed it.