Drawdown Control · The Pipeline
How MARS uses this
Before any fresh trade, MARS subtracts summed live stop-distance from the gate-authorized pool and converts the remainder into a concrete directive: how many trades, at what per-trade risk. The arithmetic runs while the operator is calm; under pressure the panel is obeyed, not renegotiated.
How it benefits you
You never size the next trade as if the open ones don't exist - the most common leak in discretionary risk. Open exposure visibly consumes capacity, break-even positions stop masquerading as free, and the account never quietly stacks past its authorized posture.
The exposure-pressure chain: authorized pool, minus live open risk, equals fresh capacity - resolved into one deployment directive.
The pipeline
Drawdown is measured from the highest realized equity — the Equity Peak High anchor. The DD pipeline feeds the Gate Map, which assigns capital state; the gate assigns brake tone and tier cap; the throttle converts that into deployment authority. Hidden capital pressure cannot be ignored because the pipeline makes it structural.
Where it lives
This page expands one card of the Drawdown Control page into its own reference. For orientation, the module's own framing: A strategy can have positive EV and still be unusable if drawdown is too deep, too frequent, or too psychologically destructive. MARS treats drawdown as the capital-state authority — the layer that decides whether edge may even be expressed.
Peak discipline
The pipeline's first value — peak equity — ratchets upward the moment a new high prints and never retreats. Every downstream permission flows from distance-to-peak, so the ratchet is the doctrine: there is no 'measuring from last month' or 'excluding that anomaly.' The peak is the peak, and the pipeline's honesty starts there.
Worked example
Distribution of maximum drawdowns across simulated paths, overlaid on the gate zones - from Growth on the left to System Lock territory in the deep-red tail.
Doctrine
Connected inside MARS
Go deeper
Deep dive — 01
The anchor updates instantly and never negotiates. Every gate is measured from your best moment.
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Deep dive — 02
Minus eight and minus twelve point nine deploy identically. After stage two they are the same account.
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Deep dive — 03
−7, −13, −19, −27, −34, −40: reading the band boundaries as a survivability schedule.
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