The rule is: when hitting the day's loss limit would leave the account 15% of that loss or less above its max-drawdown floor, ride without a daily-loss stop. It had compared against the stop-out after the 10% reserve, which made it stricter — $3,294.70 to the floor with $3,000 of daily room (9.8% left) wasn't a last stand, and now is. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>