Apex Trader Funding · 4 sizes · every figure identical
The same numbers, and two different ways to fail
Apex sell two evaluations whose published figures match completely: the same account sizes, the same targets, the same drawdowns, the same contract limits, thirty days of access on both, no consistency rule, no scaling and no minimum trading days on either.
Two things differ. The drawdown follows the closing balance on one and the intraday equity high on the other. And the end-of-day plan carries a daily loss limit, which the intraday plan does not.
Identical, size by size
| Account | Target | Drawdown | Contracts | Daily limit, EOD plan | Daily limit, intraday plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25K | $1,500 | $1,000 | 4 | $500 | none |
| $50K | $3,000 | $2,000 | 6 | $1,000 | none |
| $100K | $6,000 | $3,000 | 8 | $1,500 | none |
| $150K | $9,000 | $4,000 | 12 | $2,000 | none |
The greyed columns are the same figure on both plans, and the build fails if any of them stops being so.
The daily limit is exactly half the drawdown, at every size
$500 against $1,000, $1,000 against $2,000, $1,500 against $3,000, $2,000 against $4,000 — one half, four times over. Apex do not draw the conclusion and the arithmetic does: a single session cannot exhaust the drawdown on the end-of-day plan. That account takes at least two days to fail, by rule.
The intraday plan has no such floor under the day. Nothing caps one session, and the limit rises with every new equity high inside it, so a single afternoon can end the attempt.
That is the trade, and it is not safer against riskier. It is a cap on the day with a limit that only moves at the close, against no cap on the day with a limit that moves all through it.
“End of day” does not mean checked at the end of the day
THE THRESHOLD IS SET AT THE CLOSE AND ENFORCED THROUGH THE NEXT SESSION, which is not the same as a limit that only checks at the close: "The account may experience temporary drawdowns throughout the trading session, but it may never touch the EOD Threshold level itself. If at any moment during the trading session the account balance touches or falls below the EOD Threshold, all open positions are automatically liquidated, and the evaluation is immediately failed."
Set at the close, enforced through the next session. Most firms leave that distinction to be discovered; Apex publish it, in the direction that costs the trader. The threshold does not move during the day, and touching it during the day still ends the account.
Why a pair like this is rare
Almost every comparison on this site has to hold several things roughly equal and argue about the rest. Here nothing needs holding: Apex have published two products that differ in two named ways and agree on everything else, at the same prices, on the same page.
Which makes it the one place in this section where the question “what is an intraday trail actually worth?” has a clean answer. It is worth a daily loss limit — that is the price Apex have set on it, and they have set it in the only currency that matters here, which is another rule.
Neither plan says where the trail stops. Both are in the eighteen that do not.
What this does not measure
- · Which is likelier to pass. Nothing here is modelled. Two days to fail instead of one is a fact about the rules, not a probability, and this site does not compute probabilities for dollar-denominated futures accounts.
- · What the daily limit does. Apex publish the figure and not whether reaching it pauses trading or ends the account, so the two-day floor above assumes only that the drawdown cannot be exhausted, which is arithmetic either way.
- · The funded stage. Both plans lead to a Performance Account where consistency and scaling rules appear that neither evaluation has, and seven days to activate or the pass lapses.
- · Price. Apex publish neither plan’s fee in what was read, so nothing above prices either.
Where these rules were read
Apex Trader Funding — EOD and Intraday evaluations — read 2026-08-31
Questions
- What is the difference between Apex EOD and Intraday evaluations?
- Two things, on identical figures. The drawdown follows the closing balance on the EOD plan and the intraday equity high on the other. And the EOD plan carries a daily loss limit — $500, $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 by size — while the intraday plan has none. Targets, drawdowns, contract limits, thirty-day access, no consistency rule and no minimum trading days are the same on both.
- Which Apex evaluation is easier?
- Neither is easier in general, and the arithmetic says something more useful. The EOD daily limit is exactly half that plan's drawdown at every size, so one session cannot exhaust the drawdown: the EOD account cannot be failed in a single day. The intraday account can, because nothing caps a single session and the limit follows every new equity high.
- Does an end-of-day drawdown mean intraday swings do not matter?
- Not at Apex, and they say so. THE THRESHOLD IS SET AT THE CLOSE AND ENFORCED THROUGH THE NEXT SESSION, which is not the same as a limit that only checks at the close: "The account may experience temporary drawdowns throughout the trading session, but it may never touch the EOD Threshold level itself. If at any moment during the trading session the account balance touches or falls below the EOD Threshold, all open positions are automatically liquidated, and the evaluation is immediately failed."
- Is there a daily loss limit on Apex?
- On the EOD evaluation, yes: $500 at $25K, $1,000 at $50K, $1,500 at $100K, $2,000 at $150K. On the intraday evaluation, none is published. The same firm, the same price list, and the rule exists on one product and not the other.