Apex Trader Funding trailing drawdown explained: intraday vs EOD

Last checked 2026-10-04 against Apex's Help Center. Apex updates its rules regularly, so confirm on your dashboard.

Apex sells two kinds of evaluation with the same drawdown amounts but very different behaviour: an Intraday Trailing account, where the threshold follows your peak including open profit, and an EOD (end-of-day) Trailing account, where it only moves when a day closes higher. Picking the wrong one for your style is one of the most common ways to fail.

Side by side

	Intraday Trailing Evaluation	EOD Evaluation
Threshold trails	Peak balance including unrealized profit, in real time¹	End-of-day balance²
Drawdown amount	$1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $3,000 (100K), $4,000 (150K)¹	$1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $3,000 (100K), $4,000 (150K)²
Daily loss limit	None listed on the Intraday Trailing page¹	$500 (25K), $1,000 (50K), $1,500 (100K), $2,000 (150K). Hitting it pauses trading for the session; it does not fail the evaluation²
Where it stops trailing	On Rithmic/WealthCharts evaluations, at the profit-target balance; on Tradovate it keeps trailing. Performance Accounts lock at starting balance + $100¹	Depends on the data vendor; check your account²
Trading day	Threshold does not reset daily	Resets 6:00 pm ET²

Intraday trailing: the trade that never closed still moved your floor

50K Intraday Trailing account, starting threshold $48,000. You open a trade and it runs to +$900 open profit (equity $50,900). The threshold immediately trails to $48,900. The trade then comes back and you close it at breakeven. Your balance is $50,000 again, but the threshold stays at $48,900: your room is now $1,100, not $2,000.¹

So on an intraday account, open profit you give back still costs you room. Taking partial profits or trailing your stop keeps your balance closer to the peak the threshold is following.

EOD trailing: only the close counts

50K EOD Evaluation, threshold $48,000. Intraday swings don't move it. If the day closes at $50,600, the threshold for the next session is $48,600. If you're down $300 during a session, the $1,000 daily loss limit leaves $700 before trading is paused for the day (49,000), and the account is still alive.² Touching the EOD threshold itself fails the evaluation.²

The trade-off: the EOD account adds a daily loss limit, but open profit during the day can't ratchet your floor up.

Which one fits you?

You hold winners and often give some back intraday: the EOD account's floor is far more forgiving.
You take quick, small, consistent profits: the intraday account's lack of a daily limit may matter more than the trailing behaviour.
Either way: the threshold is enforced in real time against equity. Know your room before every entry.

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Automation and copying at Apex

Apex's prohibited-activities page says "No Automation or Algorithm Usage allowed" and forbids trade copying with other traders.³ Calculators and alerts that don't place trades are a different thing, but read the current page before using any tool that sends orders.

Sources

Apex Trader Funding Help Center, "Intraday Trailing Drawdown Explained": apextraderfunding.com/help-center/intraday-trailing-drawdown-accounts/intraday-trailing-drawdown-explained/
Apex Trader Funding Help Center, "EOD Evaluations": apextraderfunding.com/help-center/eod-trailing-drawdown-accounts/eod-evaluations/
Apex Trader Funding Help Center, "Prohibited Activities": apextraderfunding.com/help-center/getting-started/prohibited-activities/