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Gestión del Riesgo·6 May 2025·5 min de lectura

Matemáticasdeldrawdown:porquélaspérdidasduelenmásdeloqueparece

Drawdown is the fall from a peak in your account to a trough. It feels bad, but the more important point is mathematical: recovering from a drawdown requires a larger percentage gain than the percentage you lost.

The asymmetry

Lose a portion of your account and you must gain a bigger portion of the smaller balance to get back to even. The gap widens quickly as losses deepen.

This is the core reason capital preservation matters more than chasing large returns.

Keeping drawdowns shallow

Modest risk per trade and hard limits on daily or weekly losses keep drawdowns in a range you can recover from without heroics.

A shallow drawdown is a manageable setback; a deep one can be an account ending event.

Puntos clave

  • Recovering a loss needs a larger percentage gain than the loss itself.
  • The asymmetry grows fast as drawdowns deepen.
  • Preserving capital beats chasing outsized returns.
  • Trading leveraged products carries a high level of risk and can result in the loss of all invested capital. This article is educational and is not investment advice.