Apex Trader Funding

During evaluation, a $25K account may hold up to 4 mini or 40 micro contracts; a $50K account up to 6 mini or 60 micro; a $100K account up to 8 mini or 80 micro; and a $150K account up to 12 mini or 120 micro. Once funded, contract maximums decrease across all tiers.

Traders cannot simultaneously maintain long and short positions on the same instrument or on instruments with correlated price movements. This restriction ensures clear directional commitment on each trade.

A fixed daily loss limit triggers a trading halt for the remainder of that session, though the account remains active and resets the following day. Breaching the daily limit pauses trading but does not close the account; only touching the EOD drawdown threshold results in account failure.

The drawdown threshold recalculates daily at 4:59:59 PM ET based on closing balance and is then enforced in real time during the next trading session. The threshold trails upward with new account highs but never declines, and touching it intraday triggers immediate position liquidation and account closure.

Every trade must have either a pending stop loss or a clearly defined mental stop loss paired with an explicit risk management plan. Trading without these safeguards is prohibited and subject to enforcement action.

Traders may not deliberately use the account's EOD drawdown threshold as a mechanism to absorb large losses or engineer account liquidation. This practice violates the spirit of disciplined risk management.

Manual copy trading across multiple Performance Accounts registered under a trader's personal name and business name is permitted, allowing diversified strategy deployment across related accounts.

The evaluation spans 30 calendar days with no extensions available. Traders may pass in as little as one day if the profit target is achieved without violating drawdown rules. Upon passing, traders have 7 calendar days to activate their funded Performance Account.

Violations may result in temporary restrictions on contract usage, suspension of payouts except profits earned since the last withdrawal request, and forfeiture of previously accumulated windfall profits from account activity.