CFD Margin, Leverage & Prop Risk
How margin and leverage interact with prop firm daily loss and consistency rules.
Margin is the collateral to open a leveraged CFD. Available margin falls as floating loss grows. Hitting margin limits can force close — sometimes worse than your planned stop if multiple positions are open.
Prop daily loss is independent of margin. You can be “fine” on margin and still fail the challenge on daily loss. Track both.
Consistency rules punish outsized winning days. Huge CFD winners early can force smaller later days — plan profit caps (playbook) before the first trade.
Correlation: NAS100 long + US100 long is the same bet. Gold long with short USD pairs can stack macro risk.
Process: max risk per trade, max open risk, session filter, news filter. CFDs do not get special exceptions.
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