43 programmes with a drawdown that follows you up
35 of them do not say whether it ever stops
A trailing drawdown rises behind you as you make money. Whether it keeps rising for ever, or stops when it reaches the balance you started with, is the difference between a cap you can bank profit away from and one that follows you until you fail. 8 of these 43 programmes publish the answer.
All 8 give the same one: the floor locks at the starting balance, which arrives exactly when you are up by the size of the drawdown. On the other 35, at 15 firms, the pricing page says “trailing” and stops there.
The 8 that publish it
| Firm | Programme | Drawdown | Kind | Locks once you are up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding Pips | FundingPips Zero | 5% | trailing-intraday | 5% |
| Alpha Capital Group | Alpha One 10% | 6% | trailing-eod | 6% |
| Alpha Capital Group | Alpha One 6% | 4% | trailing-eod | 4% |
| Funded Trading Plus | 1-Step Express | 6% | trailing-close | 6% |
| Funded Trading Plus | Instant | 6% | trailing-close | 6% |
| FXIFY | One Phase | 6% | trailing-close | 6% |
| Blueberry Funded | Instant Lite | 4% | trailing-intraday | 4% |
| Blue Guardian | Buy Now Pay Later | 8% | trailing-close | 8% |
The last two columns are the same number in every row, and that is arithmetic rather than agreement: a floor starting one drawdown below your balance reaches that balance exactly when you are up by one drawdown. What the firms are choosing is whether it stops there.
Two firms, one question, opposite answers
Once the floor has locked at your starting balance, every dollar of profit above it is your whole buffer. So what happens when you withdraw it?
- City Traders Imperium — 1-Step Challenge. The trail never stops, so 5% is the most that can ever be given back from the peak balance no matter how far the account has run. Withdrawals are excluded from the watermark.
- FXIFY — One Phase. IT ALSO LOCKS ON A WITHDRAWAL, which is the trap: taking the full profit out leaves no buffer above the locked floor, and the next losing trade breaches.
- Blue Guardian — Buy Now Pay Later. The 8% trail stops. "If your account reaches 8% of your Initial balance your trailing Drawdown will lock in at your starting balance", after which a fixed 1% buffer is added so that withdrawing every dollar of profit cannot breach the account. The same article then says the trail runs "unless you achieve 6% from your Initial balance" — the firm publishes both 8% and 6% as the threshold, twice against once.
One firm publishes a buffer for exactly this case; the other publishes that the lock applies to the withdrawal as well. Both are trailing drawdowns of the same kind, and the pricing page cannot tell them apart.
The 35 that do not
These sell a drawdown that follows you up and publish nothing, in what was read here, about whether it ever stops. That is not an accusation — a firm may answer it on a page not read — but it is the question to ask before buying one, and it is not on the page you buy from.
Why one sentence decides the whole product
A trail that locks behaves like a static drawdown from the moment it locks. Past the threshold the two products are the same product, and every difference that page argues about stops existing for anyone in profit.
A trail that never locks is a different thing entirely: it takes room away in proportion to what you earn, so the better your account does, the less of a losing run it survives. The same word covers both, and thirty-five programmes here use the word without saying which they mean.
It also decides the one figure this site cannot compute honestly. Every probability here applies a cap at its starting level, which is right for a trail before it locks and pessimistic for one after. Where the lock is published, the figures beside those programmes are conservative by a known mechanism; where it is not, they are conservative by an unknown one.
What this does not measure
- · What the silent firms actually do. A programme in the second list publishes nothing about the lock in what was read, not necessarily nothing anywhere.
- · What the trail follows. Closed balance, end-of-day balance and the equity high inside the session are three different rules, all called trailing, and the lock is a separate question from all of them.
- · One firm publishing two thresholds. Blue Guardian state the lock at 8% twice and at 6% once in the same article. The larger figure is recorded, which errs against the firm rather than against a reader sizing risk.
- · Any failure probability. The model applies every cap at its starting level and never reads this rule; that is stated on the pages where the figures appear, and it is the reason those figures are a floor rather than an answer.
Where these rules were read
FundingPips Help Centre — account models — read 2026-08-05
Alpha Capital — rules explained — read 2026-08-05
Funded Trading Plus — hard rules and account breaches — read 2026-08-06
FXIFY — assessment account rules — read 2026-08-23
Blueberry Funded — help centre — read 2026-08-23
Blue Guardian — account model rules — read 2026-08-18
Questions
- Does a trailing drawdown ever stop trailing?
- At 8 of the 43 programmes here it does, and they all stop at the same place: the floor locks at your starting balance. That happens exactly when you are up by the size of the drawdown — 4%, 5%, 6%, 8% on the caps of those sizes. The other 35 publish nothing either way.
- Why does the lock always happen at the same percentage as the drawdown?
- Because that is where the floor gets to. It starts one drawdown below your balance and rises as your equity does, so by the time you are up by the drawdown amount the floor has climbed to where you began. Locking it there is a choice about whether it keeps going; the arithmetic decides when the question arises, not the answer.
- What happens if I withdraw all my profit?
- Two firms here answer that, and they answer it differently. City Traders Imperium's 1-Step Challenge and FXIFY's One Phase and Blue Guardian's Buy Now Pay Later — one adds a buffer above the locked floor specifically so that taking every dollar out cannot breach the account, and the other locks the floor on the withdrawal as well, which leaves nothing above it. Everybody else is silent.
- Which is worse, a trailing drawdown or a static one?
- That depends on the very rule most firms leave out. A trail that locks at the starting balance behaves like a static cap once you are past the threshold, so the difference between the two disappears for anyone in profit. A trail that never stops keeps taking room away as you earn it. The label on the pricing page is identical in both cases.