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Apex 4.0 trailing drawdown calculator

EOD and Intraday engines, post-4.0 numbers (March 2026), funded lock at start + $100. Your Apex dashboard is authoritative — this is a pre-warning layer.

$1,300
room left before breach
65% of drawdown used
Trailing threshold (breach level)$49,500
Points until breach at this size32.5 pts
Room consumed by your equity peak$1,500 gone without banking it

🔒 PA lock active: the threshold stopped trailing at start + $100.

Intraday engine: the threshold follows your peak equity including open unrealized profit, tick by tick. An open winner that retraces still moved the line up.

The trail eats open profit. An open +$1,500 that comes back to breakeven has still moved your threshold up $1,500 — the room is gone without banking a dollar. That's the single most misunderstood rule in funded futures, and it's why "peak equity" above means the highest number your equity ever touched, not your best closed balance.

How the math works

Threshold = peak equity − drawdown amount. On the Intraday engine, peak equity updates in real time and includes open unrealized profit. On the EOD engine, the peak is your highest end-of-day balance, so intraday spikes don't move the line — only the close does.

Funded (PA) lock: once the threshold climbs to your starting balance + $100, it stops trailing permanently. From that point you can't trail yourself out of an account — the breach line is frozen.

Breach price: room left ÷ (contracts × point value) = how many points against you before the account dies. Two NQ contracts at $20/pt turn $1,300 of room into 32.5 points. That number should exist in your head — or on your chart — before every entry.

Post-4.0 numbers (March 2026)

Apex's 4.0 restructure removed the legacy 75K/250K/300K accounts, the MAE rule, and 30% consistency (now 50%, PA only). Trailing drawdown by account: $1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $3,000 (100K), $4,000 (150K). Guides written before March 2026 quote dead numbers — full side-by-side rules for FTMO, Topstep and Apex are on our prop firm rules comparison.

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Sources: Apex Trader Funding help center + 4.0 change documentation. Educational content, not financial advice. Numbers verified 2026-07-12.