Apex Trader Funding payout rules, explained

In short

The path to a payout request

Payouts come from your Performance Account (PA), the simulated funded account you get after you pass an evaluation and activate it. Each request follows the same path.

1. 5 qualifying days. At least 5 trading days, each closing with the minimum net profit for your account size and type.
2. The request. Apex shows the payout request option only when every requirement is met. Two that are easy to miss are the 50% rule and the minimum balance.
3. $500 minimum. Each request is at least $500 on every account size, and it can only come from profit above the safety net.
4. At most 6 payouts. Each payout has a cap set by its number. After the sixth payout, Apex closes the PA.

Apex calls this up to weekly payouts: if you reach 5 qualifying days in one week and meet the other requirements, you can request that week. Apex’s payout articles link to its step-by-step guide to checking eligibility and requesting a payout. Our guide to how Apex works covers the evaluation and activation that come first.

This guide covers the EOD and Intraday accounts Apex introduced on Mar 1, 2026. Legacy Performance Accounts keep their own payout rules, which Apex’s help center lists separately.

Requirements

What counts as a qualifying day

A qualifying day is a trading day that closes with at least the minimum net profit for your account. Only those days count toward the 5 you need.

The days don’t have to be in a row. A losing day, or a day below the minimum, doesn’t count, but it doesn’t reset the count either. Each new request needs another 5 qualifying days.

Balance

The safety net and the minimum balance

The safety net is the starting balance plus the max drawdown plus $100. Only profit above it can be requested, and it stays for the life of the PA.

The same for EOD and Intraday Performance Accounts.

The minimum balance to request is the safety net plus the $500 minimum payout. On a 50K, that’s $50,000 + $2,000 + $100 = $52,100 for the safety net, and $52,600 to request.

While a request is pending

Apex lets you keep trading after you submit a request, and says to trade as if the amount has already left the account. If the balance falls below the minimum balance to request after you submit, Apex denies the request automatically. The account stays active, and you can request again once you meet every requirement.

After a payout

The safety net stays where it is, and every later request again needs at least the minimum balance to request. Scaling tiers are set from your closing balance, so the lower balance after a payout can also move the PA down a tier for the next session. That can lower its contract limit and daily loss limit. Our rules guide covers scaling.

Limits

Payout caps by account size

Apex caps each payout by its number, from the first to the sixth. The caps depend on account size and, for some payouts, on drawdown type.

EOD Performance Accounts

Caps are maximums set by Apex’s rules. They are not expected results.

Intraday Performance Accounts

Caps are maximums set by Apex’s rules. They are not expected results.

Example

Checklist: can a 50K EOD Performance Account request payout #1?

Apex’s payout requirements, with the numbers for a 50K EOD. Other sizes work the same way, with their numbers in the tables above.

1. At least 5 qualifying trading days, each closing with $250 or more of net profit. They don’t need to be consecutive.
2. A balance of at least $52,600: the $52,100 safety net plus the $500 minimum payout.
3. Your best day since the account started is less than 50% of your net profit over the same period.
4. A request between $500 and $1,500, the cap for payout #1, taken only from profit above $52,100.

Consistency

The 50% consistency rule

Your best day must be under 50% of your net profit since your last approved payout. Before the first payout, the count starts when the account opens.

A hypothetical example: if your best day is $600 and your profit since the last payout is $1,000, the best day is 60% of the total, so the account doesn’t meet the rule yet.

Apex’s quick check divides your best day by 0.5. Your net profit has to be above the result, so a best day of $1,500 needs more than $3,000. Losing days count against you, because the rule uses net profit.

Apex’s own examples treat exactly 50% differently: its calculation example says net profit “has to be at least” $3,000, and its FAQ table marks exactly 50% as met. The rule itself says under 50%, so the calculator below treats exactly 50% as not met. If your numbers land on exactly 50%, check with Apex support.

How the share changes, day by day

Hypothetical numbers, adapted from Apex’s 50% Consistency Requirement article, to show how the rule is calculated. Not a trading result.

Day 4’s $1,000 is the best day, so the account needs more than $2,000 of net profit before the consistency rule is met. It gets there on day 6. After an approved payout, the count starts again from zero. Our consistency rule guide has more examples.

In Apex’s words

How Apex describes payouts

Apex’s homepage, its risk disclosure and its payout articles each describe payouts in their own terms.

Apex’s homepage

Advertises “No Payout Denials”, no payout reviews and no chart screenshots for its new EOD and Intraday accounts.

Apex’s risk disclosure

“Performance Account Rewards are offered solely at Apex’s discretion, and any determination to grant or deny a Reward payout is final.”

Apex’s payout articles

Approved payouts are issued at a 100% split. A request is denied automatically if your balance falls below the minimum after you submit it.

Apex lists approved payouts on its payouts page. Its risk disclosure says payout examples may not be typical, and that participation doesn’t guarantee any Rewards. A PA that touches its drawdown threshold is closed, and so is one used for prohibited activity.

Methods

How Apex sends payouts

Apex’s payout-method guidance, last published in early 2026, says US traders are paid by ACH and traders outside the US through Plane, which sends an invitation after the first approved payout. Check Apex’s help center for the current method.

Apex’s prohibited-activities rules add that Rewards can only go to a bank account in your own name.

Beyond one account

More accounts, and Apex Live

Apex lets you hold several Performance Accounts at once, each with its own payout limit, and it may invite some traders into a separate live program.

Several Performance Accounts

Apex allows up to 20 active Performance Accounts per household at the same time, across all sizes and types, legacy PAs included. Each one needs its own passed evaluation and has to meet every payout rule on its own.

Apex Live

Apex Live is a separate, invitation-based program that trades in the live markets. Selection is at Apex’s discretion. Apex’s Live Prop Trading Program FAQ says that moving to live closes your evaluations (active ones are refunded) and deactivates your Performance Accounts, and that declining an invitation deactivates your Apex account. Read that FAQ, listed in the sources below, before you plan around it.