Apex Drawdown Calculator
Apex Trader Funding uses trailing drawdown — and which variant you chose matters enormously. Intraday Trail moves your max-loss floor up with every new equity high, even mid-trade; EOD Trail only updates the floor once per day at session close. This calculator models both, including the Intraday floor-lock: once your equity exceeds account size + max drawdown, the floor freezes at your starting balance.
Pick your plan and account size, enter your current balance and equity high, and see exactly how much headroom you have before the wall.
Inputs
Defaults to account starting balance if blank.
The highest mid-trade equity ever reached on this account.
Results
Trails your live equity high. Locks at starting balance once headroom exceeds max DD.
100% of max drawdown remaining
Distance from current balance to profit target
Covers Apex Intraday Trail ($25K–$300K) and EOD Trail ($25K–$150K) evaluation-account parameters. Apex revises plans periodically (most recently the "Apex 4.0" update) — verify current numbers on Apex’s site.
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FAQ
- How does Apex’s trailing drawdown floor lock work?
- It depends on which stage you are in, and this is the part most explanations get wrong. On a funded Performance Account the Intraday floor trails your equity high until it reaches your starting balance plus $100, then locks there permanently — on a $50K PA it stops at $50,100, which happens once your high balance hits starting balance + max drawdown + $100. In an evaluation there is no lock at all: the Intraday threshold keeps trailing your peak balance indefinitely. Treating the eval like a PA is a common and expensive mistake.
- Should I pick Apex Intraday or EOD trail?
- EOD Trail is more forgiving in-session: the floor only updates on your highest end-of-day balance, so an intraday spike you give back does not tighten your wall mid-trade. Intraday Trail moves the floor on your live equity high — including unrealized profit on an open position, so a wick into profit that you never bank still raises the wall permanently. The trade-off is that EOD Trail carries a separate daily loss limit that Intraday Trail does not have. Traders who scale out slowly or hold through pullbacks generally find EOD materially easier to manage.
- Does unrealized profit move the Intraday floor?
- Yes, and it is the single most misunderstood part of the rule. The Intraday threshold tracks your peak account equity in real time, counting open-position profit exactly like banked profit. If a trade runs $800 in your favour and you exit flat, the floor has still moved up $800 and does not come back down. This is why the number in your head at the end of a session is often not the number Apex is enforcing.
- Does Apex have a daily loss limit?
- Intraday Trail accounts have no separate daily loss limit — the trailing floor is the constraint. EOD Trail accounts do carry a daily loss limit that resets each session ($500 on $25K up to $2,000 on $150K). The calculator shows the daily-loss budget alongside the trailing headroom on EOD plans.
- How does the 30% consistency rule interact with drawdown?
- They’re independent rules. The consistency rule says no single day’s profit may exceed 30% of your total profit at the time you request a payout — it doesn’t affect the drawdown floor, but it does affect when you can withdraw. TradersForge’s Apex tracker computes both live: your distance to the trailing floor and each day’s share of total profit, so you can see payout eligibility and drawdown headroom in one place.
- Why does this differ from my Apex dashboard?
- Usually because the equity high you entered isn’t the to-the-tick high Apex tracked (mid-trade wicks count on Intraday Trail). A snapshot calculator can only be as accurate as its inputs. Connecting TradersForge to your Tradovate or NinjaTrader account tracks the equity high tick-by-tick the way the firm does.
TradersForge is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apex Trader Funding. Plan rules and drawdown amounts change — verify current rules with the firm before making trading decisions. Calculator values are estimates.