Apex Trader Funding Review 2025

General Trading Rules

There is no consistency rule.

Drawdown Policy

You can choose at apex to use an Intraday Trailing Drawdown or End Of Day Trailing Drawdown

Platform-Specific Rules

Trailing drawdown stops once the drawdown threshold (not the account balance) reaches the profit target.

• Example: On a $50k account, the trailing stops when the threshold hits $53,000.

Tradovate Accounts

Trailing drawdown continues to trail throughout the entire evaluation phase.

• It does not lock at any point during evaluation.

Breach Rules

The evaluation will be considered failed if the drawdown limit is breached.

General Rules

You must follow a rule-based trading system.

• No single trade may have an unrealized loss greather than 30% of your start-of-day profit.
• This limit increases to 50% after doubling your Safety Net.
• You must maintain consistent contract sizing that aligns with your strategy.
• No sudden reductions to secure payout eligibility.
• Scaling must be gradual and reflect actual account growth.
• You can adopt a maximum of 5:1 Risk-Reward Ratio.
• Violations of consistency or scaling rules may result in payout denial, account reset, or permanent closure.

News Trading

News trading is allowed under the following conditions:

• Only one directional bias per instrument is permitted during news events.
• You may not hold opposing positions on correlated instruments (e.g., long ES and short NQ).

Stop Loss Requirements

• Every trade must have a defined stop loss, either hard or mentally honored.
• Your stop loss may not exceed 5 times your profit target on any trade.

Trailing Drawdown & Safety Net

• Your account balance must remain above the trailing drawdown at all times.
• The trailing drawdown stops once your balance reaches the Safety Net (initial balance + drawdown + $100).
• Flipping trades is permitted only after logging $50 profit on 5 qualifying trading days.

Breach Rules

The funded account will be considered failed if the drawdown limit is breached.

Scaling Plan

General Rules

Traders are restricted to trading half of their maximum allowed contracts untile they reach the trailing threshold stop.

Threshold Reached

Once the account's End-Of-Day (EOD) balance exceeds the trailing threshold, traders can then use their full contract limit starting with the next full trading session.

General Rules

The profit split is 100%

Payout Schedule

The trader is required to complete 5 trading days.

The balance should be higher than the Safety Net.

Safety Net is defined as the amount equivalent to the drawdown based on the account size plus $100.

Safety Net is required for the first three payouts only.

Minimum Payout: $500.