Give-Back

Behavioral Discipline

The urge to win back open profit that a normal pullback has trimmed. In a prop firm evaluation the trailing line follows your equity up as you bank profit, so a routine retrace into that profit can read as a loss. The give-back is the impulse to size up and reclaim green that was never really gone, and it ends more accounts than any single bad setup. Example: You are up for the day, the market gives a little back, and you double size to get the high-water mark back. A normal retrace then ends the account.