This page covers the two current account types, EOD and Intraday (Apex's product picker calls them EOD Trail and Intraday Trail), in 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K sizes. Legacy accounts have their own payout page; there's a short section on them below.
Check your payout
Profit since the start$2,150
Nothing to request yet
3 rules block it.
- Payout 1 of 6: met. 5 payouts left after this one. Cap: $1,500.
- 5 days of $250+: not met. 4 qualifying days: 1 more day of $250 or more.
- Largest day under 50%: not met. $1,100 is 51.16% of $2,150: over $50 more profit, on days under $1,100.
- $52,600 balance: not met. $50 above the $52,100 safety net; a $500 request needs $450 more.
On Tradovate, Apex also checks the real-time balance and that no position is open when you submit. Payout Method Information also asks for 8 trading days with 5 of $50 or more; this check doesn't count those.
Starts on our rules guide's sample Friday (50K EOD, invented trades). The rules are Apex's, read on 2026-10-17; where its pages disagree, the check blocks at exactly 50% and counts the payout pages' 5 qualifying days, not Payout Method Information's 8 trading days. It reads what you enter, not your Apex dashboard, which is the source of truth.
It opens on the sample Friday from our rules guide: a 50K EOD account before its first payout, $2,150 of profit, a $1,100 largest day and 4 qualifying days. Three rules block it. It needs one more day of $250 or more. The $1,100 day is 51.16% of the profit, so it needs over $50 more on smaller days. And a $500 request needs a $52,600 balance, $450 away. Add the next Monday's +$450 (one more day, a $52,600 balance) and all three clear, for $500.
How much can you withdraw from Apex?
The balance above the safety net, at least $500 and at most the cap for that payout number. Apex prints both, and its "Minimum Balance to Request" already counts the starting balance, the safety net and the $500 minimum.
| Account | Safety net | Minimum balance to request | Balance for the full payout 1 (our sum) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25,000 | $26,100 | $26,600 | $27,100 |
| $50,000 | $52,100 | $52,600 | $53,600 |
| $100,000 | $103,100 | $103,600 | $105,100 |
| $150,000 | $154,100 | $154,600 | $156,600 |
The cap depends on the payout number, and from 50K up on the drawdown type:
| Payout | 25K | 50K, EOD / Intraday | 100K, EOD / Intraday | 150K, EOD / Intraday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,000 | $1,500 / $1,500 | $2,000 / $2,000 | $2,500 / $2,500 |
| 2 | $1,000 | $1,500 / $2,000 | $2,500 / $2,500 | $3,000 / $3,000 |
| 3 | $1,000 | $2,000 / $2,500 | $2,500 / $3,000 | $3,000 / $3,000 |
| 4 | $1,000 | $2,500 / $2,500 | $3,000 / $3,000 | $3,000 / $4,000 |
| 5 | $1,000 | $2,500 / $3,000 | $4,000 / $4,000 | $4,000 / $4,000 |
| 6 | $1,000 | $3,000 / $3,000 | $4,000 / $4,000 | $5,000 / $5,000 |
| All six, our sum | $6,000 | $13,000 / $14,500 | $18,000 / $18,500 | $20,500 / $21,500 |
The cap only binds when the balance is well above the safety net. With invented balances on a 50K EOD account before payout 1: at $53,000 you can take $900, everything above the net; at $54,000 the $1,500 cap binds and $400 stays above the net. Apex holds every account to the table "regardless of the total profit generated in the account."
Sources: EOD Payouts and Intraday Trailing Drawdown Payouts, read 2026-10-17.
What is Apex's consistency rule?
For payouts it's 50%: "No single profitable trading day may account for 50% or more of total profit earned since your last approved payout." It applies to Performance Account payouts only: Apex's EOD Evaluations and Intraday Trailing Drawdown Evaluations pages list consistency as "Not Applied."
- The formula: "Highest Profit Day ÷ Total Profit = Consistency Percentage," and "The result must be below 50%." Apex's shortcut is "Highest Profit Day / 0.5 = Minimum net profit required." Its own example says that after a $1,500 best day, profit "has to be at least $3,000"; the check asks for more than $3,000, because the FAQ wants the share below 50%.
- Losing days count. The total is net. Apex's example: $1,000 on day 1 and a $200 loss on day 2 make "$1000 (highest day net profit) divided by $800 (net profit balance) which is 125%."
- No profit, no payout. With no profit, or a loss, since the last payout, "consistency cannot be calculated, and you won't qualify yet."
- It doesn't fail the account. Over 50%, "the payout request option will just not be available." You keep trading until the share falls.
- It resets once a payout is approved: "Future payout eligibility is based only on profits earned after the last approved payout."
So a big day doesn't block you for good. It sets the profit you need: twice that day, and a little more, with the extra earned on smaller days. Our consistency calculator does that arithmetic for any threshold; enter 50.
Source: 50% Consistency Requirement, read 2026-10-17.
How many days do you need for an Apex payout?
Five qualifying days, each with at least the net profit below. They don't have to be consecutive, and there's no deadline. "If you complete five qualifying days in one week, you may request a payout that same week."
| Account | Qualifying day, EOD | Qualifying day, Intraday |
|---|---|---|
| $25,000 | $100 | $100 |
| $50,000 | $250 | $200 |
| $100,000 | $300 | $250 |
| $150,000 | $350 | $300 |
"Only days that meet the minimum daily profit count toward the 5-day requirement." So on a 50K EOD account a +$240 day doesn't count, however many of them you string together.
One Apex page asks for something else. Payout Method Information says the next request needs "a minimum of eight days, including at least five days with profits of $50 or more." That's the rule on Apex's Legacy payout page. The EOD and Intraday payout pages, and the check, use 5 qualifying days. Apex says "all eligibility criteria will be shown directly on your Account Details page," so look at which count yours shows.
A PA also has to stay alive between payouts: at least 2 trading days with $50 or more in net profit "within every rolling 30-day period," on EOD and Intraday PAs alike. Thirty days without that and Apex closes it, and "Any accumulated rewards or payout eligibility are forfeited."
Sources: the two payout pages above; Inactivity Policy on Performance Accounts (PA), read 2026-10-17.
What is the Apex safety net?
Your "drawdown limit plus $100" over the starting balance: $26,100, $52,100, $103,100 or $154,100 from 25K to 150K. You need a balance above it to request at all, and "Only profit above the safety net is eligible to be requested for a payout." It "remains in place for the lifetime of the Performance Account and does not disappear after your first payout."
It sits exactly where a PA's trailing threshold stops. On a 50K the threshold stops at $50,100 once the balance reaches $52,100, which is the safety net. Take everything above the net and the balance is one full drawdown, $2,000, above a threshold that no longer trails.
Sources: the two payout pages; EOD Drawdown Explained and Intraday Trailing Drawdown Explained, read 2026-10-17.
One cycle through every check
The sample cycle from our rules guide, read only for the payout: invented trades on a 50K EOD account before its first payout.
- 5/5 daysmet
- < 50%met
- $52,600met
Mon: 5 qualifying days, 42.31%, $52,600: all three hold. The request can be only $500.
Illustrative balances, not market data: the trades are invented. The rules are Apex's, as quoted in the payout and consistency sections from archived copies read 2026-10-08: 5 days of $250 or more, a largest day under 50% of profit since the last payout, and only profit above the $52,100 safety net, at least $500, can be requested.
Rule: a payout needs 5 qualifying days ($250+ each), the largest day under 50% of profit since the last payout (profit needed = largest day ÷ 0.5), and a balance of $52,600: the $52,100 safety net plus the $500 minimum request.
Read as text
- Mon: +$600, profit $600, largest day $600 = 100.00% of it, 1 qualifying day, balance $50,600.
- Tue: +$1,100, profit $1,700, largest day $1,100 = 64.71% of it, 2 qualifying days, balance $51,700.
- Wed: −$300, profit $1,400, largest day $1,100 = 78.57% of it, 2 qualifying days, balance $51,400. Not a qualifying day, and it raises the share.
- Thu: +$400, profit $1,800, largest day $1,100 = 61.11% of it, 3 qualifying days, balance $51,800.
- Fri: +$350, profit $2,150, largest day $1,100 = 51.16% of it, 4 qualifying days, balance $52,150. Three checks fail: 4 qualifying days, $50 more for 50%, and the balance under $52,600.
- Mon: +$450, profit $2,600, largest day $1,100 = 42.31% of it, 5 qualifying days, balance $52,600. All three checks hold: $52,600 minus the $52,100 safety net leaves a $500 request; the payout 1 cap is $1,500.
The film is the rules guide's. Its note dates Apex's rules to the archived copies we read on 2026-10-08; on 2026-10-17 we checked each one against Apex's live pages, and none had changed.
| Day | Day P&L | Close | Profit | Qualifying days | Largest day ÷ profit | Still missing: days, profit for under 50%, balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | +$600 | $50,600 | $600 | 1 | 100.00% | 4 days, over $600, $2,000 |
| Tue | +$1,100 | $51,700 | $1,700 | 2 | 64.71% | 3 days, over $500, $900 |
| Wed | −$300 | $51,400 | $1,400 | 2 | 78.57% | 3 days, over $800, $1,200 |
| Thu | +$400 | $51,800 | $1,800 | 3 | 61.11% | 2 days, over $400, $800 |
| Fri | +$350 | $52,150 | $2,150 | 4 | 51.16% | 1 day, over $50, $450 |
| Mon | +$450 | $52,600 | $2,600 | 5 | 42.31% | nothing: a $500 request |
Friday fails all three checks by a little: one day, $50 of profit, $450 of balance. Monday's +$450 clears them, and the request is still only $500, because that's all that sits above the $52,100 safety net. Payout 1's $1,500 cap would need a $53,600 balance.
$2,600 of profit, every check met, $500 to request: the first $2,100 of a 50K's profit never leaves the account.What blocks an Apex payout request?
Any one of these hides the Request Payout button or gets a request denied.
- One of the four checks: fewer than 5 qualifying days, a largest day at 50% or more, a balance under the minimum, or a PA past its sixth payout.
- The wrong account, or a restricted period. Apex's list for a missing button: "You are not currently eligible for a payout," "You are not in the correct account type (must be a Performance Account)," or "You are within a restricted period based on payout requirements." It doesn't define that period.
- Tradovate's live check. On Tradovate, Apex checks "the account's current real-time balance and whether it has any open positions at the time of the payout request." Flatten before you submit.
- A drop after you submit. You can keep trading, but "trade as if the requested payout amount has already been removed from your balance." Payout Method Information names the line: "If you submit a request and then your account balance falls below the minimum required balance to request a payout, it will simply be denied." That's the Minimum Balance to Request, $26,600, $52,600, $103,600 or $154,600 by size; on Tradovate, How to Request a Payout checks "the required minimum payout balance" when you submit. The account stays open, and you can request again once you qualify.
- The bank account. Rewards go only to "a bank account held in your own name." US payouts need a US bank and the United States as your residence on your Apex account. International requests "using a bank account from a different country than your country of residence will be rejected."
- The conduct rules. Account sharing and trade copying bring "account closure, forfeiture of funds." Apex's Prohibited Activities page also mentions Trader Probation, whose terms sit on a dashboard page we didn't read.
- Inactivity. A PA closed for inactivity forfeits its "payout eligibility."
Sources: How to Request a Payout, the payout pages, Payout Method: US-Based Users, Payout Method: International Users, Prohibited Activities, read 2026-10-17.
How long do Apex payouts take?
Apex's Payout Method Information page gives the timeline in business days.
| Step | Business days |
|---|---|
| Apex reviews the request | within 2 |
| If approved, Apex sends the funds | within 3–4 |
| Your bank or payment provider deposits it | usually 3–7 |
| In total, for most users | 5–11 |
US traders are paid by ACH direct deposit, so give the ACH routing number, not the wire one. Outside the US, payouts go through Plane: after your first approved payout, Plane sends an invitation "within 1 to 4 business days" to link your bank. If the dashboard says "PAID" and nothing has arrived, Apex asks you to "allow up to 7 more business days" before contacting your bank or Plane.
How often: "Up to weekly." The earliest request comes after 5 qualifying days, there's no deadline for the 5 days, and "Approved payouts are issued at a 100% payout split, you receive 100% of the approved payout amount."
Sources: Payout Method Information, the two Payout Method pages above and the payout pages, read 2026-10-17.
What resets after an Apex payout?
| After an approved payout | |
|---|---|
| The 50% rule | Resets: it counts only profit made after the last approved payout. |
| The cap | The next row of the cap table. |
| The safety net | Stays, for the life of the PA. |
| The trailing threshold | Doesn't move down: Apex says it "never moves downward." Once stopped at the start plus $100, it stays there. |
| The 5 qualifying days | Not stated on the payout pages. Apex's home page says "5 trading days between rewards," and Payout Method Information counts its days from "the day after your last payout request." The check counts days since your last payout. |
| Your contract tier | Set each session from the previous close. Apex's scaling page doesn't mention payouts; on our reading, a payout that lowers the balance can lower the tier. |
Sources: the consistency and payout pages, the drawdown pages and Scaling Levels (PA) Explained, read 2026-10-17.
After the sixth payout
Apex closes the account. "Each Performance Account may receive a maximum of six payouts... After 6 payouts, the PA is closed, and you will be able to obtain another PA by qualifying for another evaluation." That caps what one account can pay: six full requests add up to the "All six" row in the cap table, from $6,000 on a 25K to $21,500 on a 150K Intraday PA.
Legacy accounts: where the 30% figure comes from
If you've read that Apex's consistency rule is 30%, that's the Legacy rule. Apex's Legacy PA Payout Parameters page has a "30% Consistency Rule – Windfall," asks for 8 trading days with 5 of them at $50 or more, keeps the safety net for the first three payouts only, and pays "100% of the first $25,000 per account they are paid out, and 90% of the profit after that." Apex's home page says Legacy evaluations are back "For a Limited Time." None of that applies to the EOD and Intraday accounts on this page, and the check doesn't model Legacy accounts.
Where do Apex's own pages disagree?
- 5 qualifying days or 8 trading days? The EOD and Intraday payout pages ask for 5 days of $100 to $350. Payout Method Information (edited 2026-09-14) says "a minimum of eight days, including at least five days with profits of $50 or more," which is the Legacy page's rule. The check uses the payout pages.
- Under 50%, or at 50%? The payout pages fail "50% or more," and the consistency FAQ says "The result must be below 50%." The same page's example table marks a $1,000 day on $2,000 of profit, exactly 50%, "✓ Consistency Met," its worked example says profit "has to be at least $3,000" after a $1,500 day, and its first line says "more than 50%." The check blocks at exactly 50%.
- Since the last approved payout, or the last request? The consistency page says both: "since your last approved payout" and "since your last payout request."
- "No payout denials"? Apex's home page says "NO Payout Denials" and "No payout reviews." Its payout pages say a request "will be denied automatically" if the balance falls below the required level after you submit, and Payout Method Information says "Apex reviews your payout within 2 business days." We go by the help center.
Not published
- Whether the EOD and Intraday payout pages' 5 qualifying days restart after each payout: those pages don't say. Apex's home page says "5 trading days between rewards," and Payout Method Information counts its own days from the day after the last request.
- Whether a qualifying day's "net profit" is counted after commissions.
- What the "restricted period based on payout requirements" is.
- A payout fee: none appears on the pages we read.
- Which payout page the promotional Legacy accounts follow.
- Trader Probation's terms, which sit on Apex's dashboard.
Compare Lucid Trading's payout rules, with a 90/10 split and a buffer of its own, or read the full Apex rules guide; both are on the prop firm rules hub.
Sources and their last edits
Each page was read on 2026-10-17. Dates are the pages' own last-modified stamps (UTC).
- EOD Payouts and Intraday Trailing Drawdown Payouts, 2026-04-28.
- 50% Consistency Requirement, 2026-04-24.
- How to Request a Payout, 2026-10-02; Payout Method Information, 2026-09-14; Payout Method: International Users, 2026-09-03; Payout Method: US-Based Users, 2026-04-15.
- EOD Drawdown Explained, 2026-04-28; Intraday Trailing Drawdown Explained, 2026-10-12; EOD Evaluations, 2026-06-05; Intraday Trailing Drawdown Evaluations, 2026-04-28; EOD Performance Accounts (PA), 2026-04-28; Intraday Trailing Drawdown Performance Accounts (PA), 2026-05-21.
- Inactivity Policy on Performance Accounts (PA), 2026-10-08; Scaling Levels (PA) Explained, 2026-04-16; Prohibited Activities, 2026-07-31.
- Legacy PA Payout Parameters, 2026-07-22; Apex's home page, 2026-10-15.
Disclosure
The check and the film use invented numbers and Apex's published rules. Neither is a forecast, and neither says whether an Apex account is worth buying. Apex's dashboard decides your payout, not this page. If a number here no longer matches Apex's pages, email support@pulltrade.app and we'll correct it in public.
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Frequently asked questions
What are Apex Trader Funding's payout rules?
A Performance Account needs 5 qualifying days, a largest day under 50% of the profit since the last approved payout, and a balance at least $500 above the safety net. You can request the balance above the safety net, from $500 up to that payout's cap, and Apex pays 100% of it, up to weekly. The account closes after 6 payouts. That's per Apex's EOD and Intraday payout pages, read 2026-10-17.
What is the Apex consistency rule?
For payouts, your largest profitable day must be under 50% of your net profit since your last approved payout, losing days included, so you need a little more than twice that day in profit. Being over 50% doesn't fail the account; the payout button just stays hidden. Evaluations have no consistency rule, and the 30% rule you may have read about is Apex's Legacy rule.
How much can you withdraw from Apex?
The balance above the safety net, at least $500 and at most the cap for that payout: $1,000 every time on a 25K, $1,500 to $3,000 on a 50K, $2,000 to $4,000 on a 100K and $2,500 to $5,000 on a 150K, by payout number and drawdown type. A $500 request needs a balance of $26,600, $52,600, $103,600 or $154,600.
What is the Apex safety net?
Your drawdown limit plus $100, over the starting balance: $26,100, $52,100, $103,100 or $154,100 on the 25K to 150K accounts. Only profit above it can be requested, and it stays for the life of the Performance Account, not just until the first payout.
How many days do you need for an Apex payout?
5 qualifying days, not necessarily consecutive, each with at least $100, $250, $300 or $350 of net profit on EOD accounts (25K to 150K) or $100, $200, $250 or $300 on Intraday. One Apex page, Payout Method Information, asks for eight days with five of $50 or more instead; that matches Apex's Legacy rule, and the payout pages say 5.
How long do Apex payouts take?
Apex reviews a request within 2 business days and, if it approves, sends the funds within 3–4; your bank usually takes 3–7 more. Apex says most users are paid within 5–11 business days in total. US payouts go by ACH direct deposit, international ones through Plane.
How many payouts can you take from one Apex account?
Six. After the sixth approved payout Apex closes the Performance Account, and you need to pass another evaluation for a new one. The six caps add up to $6,000 on a 25K and to $21,500 on a 150K Intraday account.
