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Drawdown Recovery Calculator by Kunkafa

See the percentage gain required to recover from a portfolio loss. Change the starting value and drawdown to explore the arithmetic.

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Your results

Amount lost
$2,000.00
Remaining value
$8,000.00
Gain needed to recover
25%
Recovery target
$10,000.00
20% lost and 80% remaining from the starting portfolio valuePurple: remaining. Gray: loss.
Recovery is measured from the smaller remaining balance, not the original amount. No recovery date is predicted.

How Kunkafa calculates drawdown recovery

Remaining value = initial value × (1 − loss percentage ÷ 100). Required recovery gain = loss percentage ÷ (100 − loss percentage) × 100. The same formula works for any currency, although this page displays USD.

A 20% loss on $10,000 leaves $8,000. Returning to $10,000 needs a 25% gain on that remaining amount. A 50% loss needs a 100% gain; a 90% loss needs a 900% gain.

At a 100% loss, the starting base for recovery is zero, so no finite percentage investment return restores the original amount. Contributions, withdrawals, taxes, fees and inflation are not modeled.

This is recovery arithmetic, not a forecast or a suggestion to add risk after a loss. It gives no estimate of how long a recovery might take.

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Kunkafa shows predicted changes, direction and probabilities across forecast durations. Use these probabilities to explore uncertainty. They do not guarantee a recovery.