Apex's intraday trailing evaluation: profit targets, the trailing threshold that follows your equity high in real time, contract limits, and why it passes in one day.
Apex is the highest-volume futures prop firm in the world and the reason is this evaluation: there is no consistency rule and no minimum trading day, so a single good session passes it. Apex say so themselves. What you pay for that speed is the drawdown mechanic — the threshold trails your intraday equity high, not your closing balance. Every dollar of unrealised profit on an open position drags the line up behind you, and it never comes back down. Traders who scale into a runner, watch it retrace, and close flat have already moved their own stop-out closer without taking a single loss.
None during the evaluation. Apex apply a 30% consistency rule to funded payouts, not to the evaluation itself. That is the cleanest split in the industry: pass however you like, then trade consistently to withdraw.
One day. Hit the full profit target in a single session and you are through — there is no minimum trading day to serve out. The constraint is not the rule set, it is the intraday trailing threshold: pushing for the whole target in one session is exactly the behaviour that walks the line up behind you.
Every figure below is checked against the firm's own documentation and re-audited weekly.
| Account | Profit target | Max loss limit | Daily loss limit | Max contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25K | $1,500 | $1,000 | None | 4 minis 40 micros |
| 50K | $3,000 | $2,000 | None | 6 minis 60 micros |
| 100K | $6,000 | $3,000 | None | 8 minis 80 micros |
| 150K | $9,000 | $4,000 | None | 12 minis 120 micros |
The calculator applies these exact rules, shows your minimum days, the points and ticks you need per market, and — if you know your win rate — the odds you actually make it.
Open the free calculator →Yes. Apex has no consistency rule and no minimum trading day in the evaluation, so reaching the profit target in a single session passes it. Apex advertise this directly. The practical limit is the intraday trailing threshold, which rises with your unrealised equity high during that session.
A loss limit that follows your account's highest intraday equity, including open-trade profit, and never moves back down. It stops trailing once it reaches your starting balance plus your profit target. Until then, giving back unrealised profit permanently tightens your room.
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