SAMPLE REPORT — generated from realistic dummy data to show what an autopsy looks like. Names, trades, and account are fictional.
PROPPROOF · FORENSIC POST-MORTEM
Blown Account Autopsy
Sample Trader · Topstep
$50K Combine (SAMPLE DATA) · MNQ ·
2026-05-13 to 2026-06-09 ·
156 trades over 19 trading days
This account died on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 10:26 AM (US/Eastern), when the day's loss reached -$1,131 against a daily loss limit of -$1,000.
-$1,491total net P&L$48,509ending balance51%win rate+$99.08avg winner-$121.01avg loser
Executive summary
The fatal damage happened in 8 trades across 45 minutes on 2026-06-09, losing -$1,212. The rest of the account's life was survivable. That morning wasn't.
You sized up when losing: the trade after a loser averaged 3.11 contracts vs 2.21 after a winner (41% larger, n=71 vs 66).
After two straight losers you re-entered in a median of 1m 55s vs 6m 15s otherwise — and those chased trades cost -$1,536 in total (33 trades).
You held losers 3.4× longer than winners (12m 55s vs 3m 46s), with an average loss of -$121.01 against an average win of +$99.08.
Red days averaged 10.3 trades vs 6.3 on green days — losing days were high-activity days, not unlucky ones.
The account gave 1 warning shot before it died — near-miss day inside 20% of the daily loss limit: 2026-06-03 (-$852).
The kill sequence
Reconstructed from your fills: the run of trades on 2026-06-09
that actually ended the account — starting from the day's high-water mark and
ending at the trade that breached the rule.
Entry (US/Eastern)
Side
Qty
Price path
Held
Trade P&L
Day P&L after
09:41:55
Short
3
21,350.50 → 21,364.75
7m 22s
-$90
-$9
09:48:30
Long
4
21,372.50 → 21,358.25
10m 21s
-$120
-$129
09:55:05
Long
4
21,350.00 → 21,328.25
9m 30s
-$180
-$309
10:01:40
Short
6
21,318.75 → 21,313.00
1m 52s
+$60
-$249
10:06:15
Long
6
21,309.00 → 21,289.75
7m 39s
-$240
-$489
10:10:50
Long
6
21,297.75 → 21,281.00
8m 16s
-$210
-$699
10:14:25
Short
6
21,274.50 → 21,297.00
9m 22s
-$279
-$978
10:19:00
Long
6
21,291.75 → 21,279.75
7m 55s
-$153
-$1,131
Arithmetic check: the kill sequence sums to
-$1,212; the day closed at
-$1,131 against a daily loss limit of
-$1,000.
The evidence
The three rules that would have kept this account alive
Each rule below was replayed against your actual trade list — same trades,
same order, rule enforced mechanically. No hindsight trade-picking: a rule
either stops you trading or caps your size; it never improves a single entry.
Rule
Ending balance with rule enforced
Account outcome
Trades avoided
Hard daily stop at -$500 Stop trading for the day the moment day P&L reaches -$500 (half the daily loss limit).
$48,911
survives
33
Max 2 contracts, no exceptions Cap every trade at 2 contracts. Oversized trades are scaled to 2 lots (P&L scaled proportionally — an approximation, stated as such in the report). (proportional-scaling approximation)
$49,922
survives
0
Three consecutive losers = done for the day After three losing trades in a row in one session, no more trades that day.
$48,989
survives
61
Baseline without any rule: ending balance
$48,509, account
died.
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What this data cannot show
The export contains fills only. It cannot show what you saw on the chart, the
trades you skipped, or whether a stop was in the market or in your head. Where
the data was thin (small sample sizes are flagged with n= counts above), treat
the pattern as a hypothesis to watch, not a verdict. All P&L figures are net of fees.
