Apex currently sells EOD and Intraday evaluations in four sizes: 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K. On the 50K evaluation the profit target is $3,000, the trailing drawdown is $2,000, the contract limit is 6, and you have 30 calendar days with no minimum number of trading days. After you pass, you have 7 days to activate a Performance Account, and you can hold up to 20 active PAs. The payout rules have their own page: Apex payout rules 2026.
Checked against Apex's help center on October 14, 2026. The pages we used were last modified between April 28 and July 31, 2026.
Every Apex 2026 rule change explained in one walkthrough.
On March 1, 2026 Apex moved its earlier Evaluation and Performance Accounts into a "Legacy" category and stopped selling them. Legacy accounts you already hold keep running under their old rules, and Apex's help center keeps a separate section for them. The current products are an End-of-Day (EOD) trailing drawdown account and an Intraday trailing drawdown account, each in four sizes. Apex's own site describes the fees as one-time, with no recurring billing, and advertises that the MAE rule is gone.
If you are reading an older Apex guide, treat any mention of 75K, 250K or 300K accounts as Legacy. They are not in the current EOD or Intraday product pages.
The target, drawdown and contract limits are the same on EOD and Intraday evaluations. The difference is the daily loss limit: EOD evaluations have one, Intraday evaluations don't.
| Size | Profit target | Trailing drawdown | Max contracts | Daily loss limit (EOD only) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25K | $1,500 | $1,000 | 4 | $500 |
| 50K | $3,000 | $2,000 | 6 | $1,000 |
| 100K | $6,000 | $3,000 | 8 | $1,500 |
| 150K | $9,000 | $4,000 | 12 | $2,000 |
Rules that apply to every size:
On an EOD evaluation, hitting the daily loss limit pauses trading for the rest of the session. It doesn't fail the evaluation, and it doesn't move the drawdown threshold. The trading day resets at 6:00 PM ET.
The threshold starts at the account size minus the drawdown. Once a day, at 4:59:59 PM ET, Apex sets it to your highest end-of-day balance minus the drawdown amount. It only moves up. The new level is enforced from the next session, and if your balance touches it at any moment, open positions are liquidated and the evaluation fails (or the PA closes).
Apex's own example, a 50K account with a $2,000 drawdown:
| Day | Closing balance | Threshold afterward |
|---|---|---|
| Start | $50,000 | $48,000 |
| Day 1 | $50,800 | $48,800 |
| Day 2 | $51,600 | $49,600 |
| Day 3 | $50,900 | $49,600 (unchanged) |
| Day 4 | $52,000 | $50,000 |
Where the threshold stops moving depends on the account. On a Performance Account it locks at the starting balance plus $100, which is $50,100 on a 50K account, and that happens when your highest end-of-day balance reaches $52,100. On Rithmic and Wealthcharts evaluations it locks when it reaches the profit-target balance ($53,000 on a 50K account). On Tradovate evaluations Apex says it never locks.
The threshold follows your peak balance, unrealized gains included, and never moves down. Touch it and open positions are liquidated and the evaluation fails. There is no daily loss limit on Intraday evaluations, so that trailing line is the only floor.
This part is our opinion, not Apex's. If you sometimes run a winner up and give part of it back before the close, EOD is kinder, because an intraday spike doesn't raise the line. If you scalp and are usually flat quickly, Intraday's higher payout ladder and lower daily minimums may be worth the tighter floor. Our EOD vs Intraday comparison goes through it.
The PA is a simulated funded account, not a live one. It keeps the evaluation's size and drawdown type. Per Apex's EOD PA page:
| Size | Max drawdown | Max contracts |
|---|---|---|
| 25K | $1,000 | 2 |
| 50K | $2,000 | 4 |
| 100K | $3,000 | 6 |
| 150K | $4,000 | 10 |
Apex's Prohibited Activities page (last modified July 31, 2026) is short and blunt. In plain terms:
The same page says sharing computers, IPs, credit cards or trade copying with other traders is strictly forbidden. It doesn't say whether mirroring your own accounts is allowed, and it gives no conditions in either direction. We can't settle that for you, and nobody on a forum can either. Apex allows up to 20 PAs, which is why the question keeps coming up. Ask Apex support to confirm the policy for your own accounts, in writing, before you copy across Apex accounts.
The page also lists "multiple accounts" as prohibited without defining it. Given that Apex allows 20 PAs, it presumably means multiple identities per person, but that is our guess. Another one for support.
Corrections on October 14, 2026. We rewrote this page after checking it against Apex's help center. The earlier version listed 75K, 250K and 300K sizes, a $2,500 drawdown and 10 contracts on the 50K account, and daily loss limits of $2,000 and $3,000 on the 100K and 150K accounts. None of that matches what Apex publishes now. It also put the 50K safety net at $52,600; Apex's safety net is $52,100, and $52,600 is the minimum balance to request a payout. We removed the claims about mandatory bracket orders, a fixed-drawdown "Static" account and contract scaling that unlocks at the safety net, because we couldn't find them in Apex's help center.