Mechanic · End-of-day trailing drawdown
Firms whose trailing drawdown ratchets end-of-day
32 firm(s) in PropSurvival's corpus documented under this mechanic · newest read 2026-08-17
An end-of-day trailing floor recalculates once, at the close of each trading session, off the highest end-of-day closed balance the account has reached. The floor never moves back down, and it does not test anything between closes — a position that runs into a deep open loss and recovers before the session ends never touches it. The floor only ratchets, and only breaches, at the close.
This is easy to misread as forgiving, because nothing intraday can trigger it — but the floor it locks in at each close is permanent and never gives room back. A trader who closes a session at a new high has, in that instant, raised the elimination line for every session that follows, whether or not that day's gain is ever given back.
4 of 32 firms below carry an unresolved reading in PropSurvival's own corpus on exactly this mechanic — named per firm, not smoothed into one average claim:
- Alpha Futures — Direct Qualified: Unresolved in this firm's own documentation (read, not reconciled): whether the drawdown floor is tested continuously through the day or only at the end-of-day close.
- Apex Trader Funding: Unresolved in this firm's own documentation (read, not reconciled): whether the trailing floor locks at the starting balance once the target is reached.
- FundedNext Futures — Legacy Challenge: Unresolved in this firm's own documentation (read, not reconciled): whether the trailing drawdown floor tracks the intraday peak or the end-of-day balance; whether touching the drawdown floor exactly breaches, or only closing below it does; whether the drawdown floor is tested continuously through the day or only at the end-of-day close.
- MyFundedFutures: Unresolved in this firm's own documentation (read, not reconciled): whether the drawdown floor is tested continuously through the day or only at the end-of-day close.
| Firm | Its own sourced clause | Retrieved / last checked | Firm rules page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Futures — Advanced | 3.5% ($1,750), off the highest EOD close "EOD ... never intraday trailing"Source: https://help.alpha-futures.com/en/articles/9491999-maximum-loss-limit-mll |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Alpha Futures — Advanced — Trailing drawdown |
| Alpha Futures — Direct Qualified | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "'None of our accounts utilize intraday trailing drawdown ... Your floor moves from your end-of-day balance, not unrealised intraday highs.' Both readers agree: the ANCHOR only advances on the end-of-day balance, never on an unrealized intraday peak."Source: https://help.alpha-futures.com/en/articles/9491999-maximum-loss-limit-mll |
retrieved 2026-07-31 · last checked 2026-07-31 | Alpha Futures — Direct Qualified — Trailing drawdown |
| Alpha Futures — Zero | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "EOD ... never intraday trailing"Source: https://help.alpha-futures.com/en/articles/9491999-maximum-loss-limit-mll |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Alpha Futures — Zero — Trailing drawdown |
| Apex Trader Funding | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "calculated once per day at market close"Source: https://support.apextraderfunding.com/hc/en-us/articles/46724640813083-EOD-Evaluations |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Apex Trader Funding — Trailing drawdown |
| Aqua Futures | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "End of Day Drawdown (excluding Instant Pro)"Source: https://help.aquafutures.io/en/articles/10080201-aquafutures-trading-parameters |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Aqua Futures — Trailing drawdown |
| Blue Guardian Futures | 6% ($1,500), off the highest EOD close "EOD trailing ... account balance"Source: https://www.blueguardian.com/futures |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Blue Guardian Futures — Trailing drawdown |
| BluSky Trading — Launch | 4% ($2,000), off the highest EOD close "Trailing (EOD)"Source: https://help.blusky.pro/en/articles/16300846-launch-plans-phases-rules-and-costs |
retrieved 2026-08-16 · last checked 2026-08-16 | BluSky Trading — Launch — Trailing drawdown |
| BluSky Trading — Propel | 4.8% ($1,200), off the highest EOD close "The minimum trailing balance increases with your highest EOD balance. It increases with profits, but it does not decrease with losses, and is calculated from your starting balance at 6PM."Source: https://help.blusky.pro/en/articles/12434059-evaluation-rules |
retrieved 2026-08-16 | BluSky Trading — Propel — Trailing drawdown |
| Bulenox | 6% ($1,500), off the highest EOD close "new high at the end of the trading day"Source: https://bulenox.com/help/qualification-account/ |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Bulenox — Trailing drawdown |
| E8 Markets | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "A moving loss limit based on your highest end-of-day balance. It only updates once per day at market close (intraday equity swings do not move it). It locks permanently at the initial balance level."Source: https://helpfutures.e8markets.com/en/articles/11864596-eod-dynamic-drawdown |
retrieved 2026-08-17 · last checked 2026-08-17 | E8 Markets — Trailing drawdown |
| Earn2Trade | 6% ($1,500), off the highest EOD close "end of day balance ... increased by profit"Source: https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3224507 |
retrieved 2026-07-16 · last checked 2026-07-22 | Earn2Trade — Trailing drawdown |
| Elite Trader Funding | 4% ($2,000), off the highest EOD close "Open profit never moves the floor up; only a higher closed balance at session close does. Open losses still count."Source: https://elitetraderfunding.app/end-of-day-evaluation |
retrieved 2026-08-16 | Elite Trader Funding — Trailing drawdown |
| FTMO | 10% ($5,000), off the highest EOD close "establishes an end-of-day trailing limit"Source: https://ftmo.com/en/trading-objectives/ |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | FTMO — Trailing drawdown |
| Funded Trading Plus — 1-Step Express | 6% ($1,500), off the highest EOD close "cannot go above the starting balance"Source: https://fundedtradingplus.com/help/relative-drawdown |
retrieved 2026-07-16 · last checked 2026-07-22 | Funded Trading Plus — 1-Step Express — Trailing drawdown |
| Funded Trading Plus — Instant Funding | 6% ($300), off the highest EOD close "The high watermark is measured using the simulated account balance."Source: https://help.fundedtradingplus.com/instant-program-information/ |
retrieved 2026-08-16 | Funded Trading Plus — Instant Funding — Trailing drawdown |
| FundedNext Futures — Flex Challenge | 3% ($1,500), off the highest EOD close "highest end-of-day balance"Source: https://fundednext.com/general-rules/futures/trading-objectives |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | FundedNext Futures — Flex Challenge — Trailing drawdown |
| FundedNext Futures — Legacy Challenge | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "trailing end-of-day (EOD) system"Source: https://helpfutures.fundednext.com/en/articles/14298225-maximum-loss-limit |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | FundedNext Futures — Legacy Challenge — Trailing drawdown |
| FundedNext Futures — Rapid Daily Challenge | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "highest end-of-day balance"Source: https://fundednext.com/general-rules/futures/trading-objectives |
retrieved 2026-07-16 · last checked 2026-07-22 | FundedNext Futures — Rapid Daily Challenge — Trailing drawdown |
| FundedNext Futures — Rapid Pro Challenge | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "highest end-of-day balance ... trails up"Source: https://fundednext.com/general-rules/futures/trading-objectives |
retrieved 2026-07-16 · last checked 2026-07-22 | FundedNext Futures — Rapid Pro Challenge — Trailing drawdown |
| FXIFY | 10% ($500), off the highest EOD close ""Trailing drawdown - 10% trails your closed trading balance until you reach 10% profits in your account. Once you have achieved 10% in your account the max trailing locks in at your starting balance, and no longer trails your account.""Source: https://fxify.com/programs/two-phase/ |
retrieved 2026-07-30 · last checked 2026-07-30 | FXIFY — Trailing drawdown |
| Goat Funded Futures | 4% ($2,000), off the highest EOD close "End of day trailing max drawdown, which locks once it reaches your starting balance"Source: https://help.goatfundedfutures.com/en/articles/14095302-eod-challenge-specifications-rules-and-payouts |
retrieved 2026-08-16 · last checked 2026-08-16 | Goat Funded Futures — Trailing drawdown |
| Lucid Trading | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "highest closing balance"Source: https://support.lucidtrading.com/en/articles/12890136-lucidpro-drawdown |
retrieved 2026-08-16 | Lucid Trading — Trailing drawdown |
| MyFundedFutures | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "trails ... new end-of-day highs"Source: https://help.myfundedfutures.com/en/articles/15862870-builder-plan-25k-a-comprehensive-guide |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | MyFundedFutures — Trailing drawdown |
| Nexgen ProTrader Funding | 5% ($1,250), off the highest EOD close "End-of-day drawdown is a trailing loss limit that is calculated from your account balance at the end of each trading day."Source: https://nexgenprotraderfunding.com/ |
retrieved 2026-08-16 · last checked 2026-08-16 | Nexgen ProTrader Funding — Trailing drawdown |
| Phidias | 5% ($2,500), off the highest EOD close "adjusted ... against your new balance at the end of the day"Source: https://phidiaspropfirm.com/rules |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Phidias — Trailing drawdown |
| Purdia Capital | 4% ($2,000), off the highest EOD close "Drawdown (EOD)"Source: https://purdia.com/programs |
retrieved 2026-08-16 · last checked 2026-08-16 | Purdia Capital — Trailing drawdown |
| Take Profit Trader | 6% ($1,500), off the highest EOD close "minimum balance follows highest end-of-day balance"Source: https://takeprofittraderhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15170265979165-Rule-3-Do-Not-Hit-End-Of-Day-EOD-Maximum-Trailing-Drawdown |
retrieved 2026-07-16 · last checked 2026-07-22 | Take Profit Trader — Trailing drawdown |
| The Trading Pit | 4% ($2,000), off the highest EOD close "Your maximum drawdown will trail based on your End-Of-Day (EOD) balance ... Intraday peaks do not affect the Max Drawdown limit."Source: https://www.thetradingpit.com/futures |
retrieved 2026-07-30 | The Trading Pit — Trailing drawdown |
| Top One Futures | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "The Max Trailing Drawdown is calculated based on your end-of-day balance"Source: https://help.toponefutures.com/en/articles/10907134-understanding-the-drawdown-in-elite-accounts |
retrieved 2026-08-17 · last checked 2026-08-17 | Top One Futures — Trailing drawdown |
| Topstep | 4% ($2,000), off the highest EOD close "rises as your end-of-day balance grows"Source: https://help.topstep.com/en/articles/8284204-what-is-the-maximum-loss-limit |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Topstep — Trailing drawdown |
| Tradeify | 4% ($1,000), off the highest EOD close "account balance at the end of the trading day"Source: https://help.tradeify.co/en/articles/10495915-growth-evaluation-accounts |
retrieved 2026-07-16 | Tradeify — Trailing drawdown |
| UProfit Trader | 4% ($2,000), off the highest EOD close "It updates at the end of each day, based on the highest balance reached during the session."Source: https://uprofit.com/help/trading-parameters-for-our-day-accounts-38280041407892 |
retrieved 2026-07-31 | UProfit Trader — Trailing drawdown |
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