How to determine size of trading book?

Banks typically describe a trader's capital in terms of book value, i.e. "2MM book", and then loss-limits/returns will be in percentage basis of this.

But what about traders who are constrained instead by maximum position size or a nominal $ downsize limit? Any way to equate the two measurements?

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