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The cumulative decline in price or value after a series of consecutive decreases or from a relative peak to a relative trough. The duration for a drawdown can be as noteworthy as its magnitude.

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Drawdown calculation for strategies

I concur with Richard here. Generally draw downs are measured on invested capital not raw pnl. Thus if you start out with 1 million xyz currency units and suffer a loss on the first trade of 100,000 x …
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Expected length and depth of drawdown

Here you go, http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/9808295.pdf http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~magdon/talks/mdd_NYU04.pdf http://www.intelligenthedgefundinvesting.com/pubs/rb-kwcmlr.pdf However, you mentioned you …
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Fastest algorithm for calculating retrospective maximum drawdown

I won't give you the answer delivered on a silver platter but hopefully the following will get your started: a) you need to define exactly over which look-back period you aim to derive the maximum drawdown
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