Apex Intraday $50K evaluation: the rules, what binds first, and the modeled pass odds
Apex Intraday's own published $50K rules, run against 3 disclosed trader profiles through the same engine that powers the free calculator, 25,000 seeded runs each.
For the Steady Scaler profile (a 50% win rate, 1.5R-average-win trader risking 1% of equity per trade), the modeled pass probability on Apex Intraday's $50K program is 46.9% ± 0.3% (SE — the statistical margin from running 25,000 simulated attempts), most often stopped by the max drawdown floor rather than the other rules modeled here.
- Why it matters
- Because the max drawdown floor is what most often ends a modeled run on this program, sizing to survive deeper drawdown swings — smaller risk per trade, more cushion before the floor — does more for pass odds here than rushing the profit target. On this $50,000 account the floor starts at $48,000 (a $2,000 cushion) and only moves up, never down.
- Evidence
- 12 rule field(s) sourced directly from Apex Intraday’s own documentation (see Sources below).
- Calculation / result
- The same simulator that powers the free calculator, run 25,000 seeded runs against Apex Intraday's own rules, so Apex Intraday’s result reproduces exactly.
- Limitation
- Modeled for one disclosed trader profile on Apex Intraday’s own published rules, not a prediction of any individual's outcome; not a ranking or comparison of firms.
- Retrieved / verified
- Retrieved 2026-07-22. Re-checked against the source on 2026-10-15 with no disconfirming finding.
Terms used on this page
- Intraday trailing — The drawdown floor recalculates continuously off your highest unrealized equity, including open trades — it can move against you before you close a position.
- Daily loss — A separate, smaller loss cap measured from that trading day’s starting balance; breaching it usually pauses trading for the day rather than failing the evaluation.
- Consistency rule — A pass condition capping how much of your total profit one single day may provide (commonly 30–50%) — one outsized day can block a pass even at the target.
- R multiple — Profit or loss on a trade as a multiple of what you risked — risking $500 and profiting $750 is a +1.5R trade.
- Pass probability — The share of simulated attempts, out of thousands run under one firm’s exact published rules, that clear every rule inside the time window.
- Binding rule — Whichever rule — drawdown, daily loss, or time — ends the most simulated attempts for a given trading style; the constraint to manage first.
Current rule snapshot
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Program | Intraday Trailing Drawdown Evaluation (EA) |
| Account size | $50,000 |
| Phase 1 target | 6% ($3,000) — source · retrieved 2026-07-16 |
| Daily loss | no daily loss limit — source · retrieved 2026-07-16 |
| Max drawdown | 4% ($2,000) — source · retrieved 2026-07-16 |
| Drawdown mode | intraday trailing — source · retrieved 2026-07-16 |
| Consistency rule | none recorded |
| Min / max trading days | Min 0 — source · retrieved 2026-07-16 · Max 30 |
| Payout timing | not recorded in our corpus yet — support.apextraderfunding.com’s own payout page is the authority until we add it. |
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run your own book against Apex Intraday — freeWhat the rules mean
Apex Intraday models an intraday trailing drawdown floor at 4% of the account. No daily loss limit is modeled. This is a one-step program: passing the evaluation is funding.
- Firms whose trailing drawdown ratchets on intraday equity
- Trailing drawdown — glossary
- Firms with no daily loss limit
- Evaluation — glossary
- Funded account — glossary
Ambiguities we found
Corpus note: “During the EVALUATION the intraday threshold trails the peak the whole way with no lock on Tradovate; some Apex pages state Rithmic/Wealthcharts evaluations freeze at the profit-target balance (50K: $53,000). The Starting-Balance+$100 freeze (50K: $50,100) is a FUNDED (Performance Account) feature, NOT the evaluation. Conservative reading: never-lock (highest ruin). Platform choice, not doc uncertainty.”
Conservative reading used on this page: the drawdown never locks (Tradovate-routed accounts).
Scenarios
Three named, disclosed trader profiles — not this reader's numbers — so the result is reproducible rather than personal.
| Trader profile | Pass probability | Binding constraint | Median days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steady Scaler a 50% win rate, 1.5R-average-win trader risking 1% of equity per trade (that’s $500 per trade on this $50,000 account) | 46.9% ± 0.3% | max drawdown floor (53.1%) | 3 | run this profile |
| Aggressive Scalper a 45% win rate, 1.8R-average-win trader risking 1% of equity per trade (that’s $500 per trade on this $50,000 account) | 43.0% ± 0.3% | max drawdown floor (57.0%) | 3 | run this profile |
| Balance Rider a 42% win rate, 2.0R-average-win trader risking 0.75% of equity per trade (that’s $375 per trade on this $50,000 account) | 46.0% ± 0.3% | max drawdown floor (54.0%) | 4 | run this profile |
Simulated result from user-supplied inputs · not investment advice · not affiliated with or endorsed by Apex Trader Funding
Binding rule
Across the 3 modeled trader profiles, the binding constraint is consistently the max drawdown floor — for the Steady Scaler profile it accounts for 53.1% of simulated runs. The max drawdown floor eliminates more runs than running out of time or breaching the daily limit. In practice: protecting the $2,000 drawdown cushion — smaller size, more room before the floor — clears this program more often in the simulation than pushing hard for the $3,000 target first.
Simulated result from user-supplied inputs · not investment advice · not affiliated with or endorsed by Apex Trader Funding
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Other account sizes of this program
- $25K — daily loss
- $100K — daily loss
- $150K — daily loss
Other programs from Apex Trader Funding
Other intraday-trailing programs
- Maven $50K — same drawdown mechanic
Research
- Methodology — how PropSurvival models a challenge
- Static vs trailing drawdown: how the floor mechanic changes pass probability
Rule history
Independent rechecks:
- 2026-07-22 — two independent blind read-throughs (confirmed, with a reader disagreement noted)
- 2026-09-13 — first party single pass (documented-absent)
- 2026-09-13 — first party single pass (documented-absent)
Sources
- support.apextraderfunding.com — source page · retrieved 2026-07-16 — "25K $1,500 / 50K $3,000 / 100K $6,000 / 150K $9,000"
- apextraderfunding.com — source page · retrieved 2026-07-16 — "threshold follows the highest intraday balance (Peak)"
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run your own book against Apex Intraday — freeFrequently asked
- Does the Apex Intraday program have a daily loss limit?
- No — this program does not model a daily loss limit; only the max drawdown (and any consistency rule) constrain the account.
- How does the max drawdown floor move?
- It ratchets on the highest balance reached, modeled here on every closed trade. See intraday trailing for the full definition.
- How many trading days does this program require?
- No minimum trading-day requirement is modeled for this program.
- Is there a consistency rule?
- No — this program does not model a best-day consistency cap.
- When is the first payout available?
- not recorded in our corpus yet — support.apextraderfunding.com’s own payout page is the authority until we add it.
- What does the Apex Intraday evaluation cost?
- No evaluation fee amount is recorded in the corpus for this program. This is from the corpus snapshot retrieved 2026-07-22; no separate source is recorded for pricing — confirm the current price on Apex Intraday’s own pricing page before you buy.
- Has this rule set changed recently?
- Re-checked against the source on 2026-10-15 with no disconfirming finding.
How this page was generated
Rule values on this page come from PropSurvival’s maintained rule corpus for Apex Intraday $50K (retrieved 2026-07-22. Re-checked against the source on 2026-10-15 with no disconfirming finding.), and the pass odds are computed by the same simulator that powers the free tool — 25,000 seeded runs per trader profile, regenerated whenever the corpus changes, so the numbers can be reproduced exactly.
Simulated result from user-supplied inputs · not investment advice · not affiliated with or endorsed by Apex Trader Funding. Rules change without notice; the firm’s own documentation is always the final authority. See the disclaimer for the full never-claims list.