Trailing drawdown simulator

The drawdown line is not measured from where you started — it is measured from the highest your account has ever been, and at some firms it moves tick by tick. Pick your firm and account, type a few days of P&L, and see exactly where the line sits each day and how much buffer is left before the account is gone.

Prop firm

Plan / model

Account size

Rules verifiedAll Apex Trader Funding rules Apex Trader Funding site

Single evaluation. Apex 4.0: Intraday-trailing (default, no daily-loss) or EOD-trailing (with daily-loss).

Intraday trailing drawdown

The loss line follows every new high, tick by tick.

Max drawdown

$1,000

Daily loss limit

None

Profit target

$1,500

Loss line before day 1

$24,000

The preset records that this floor locks once it reaches your starting balance — so at a peak of $26,000 the line stops at $25,000 and never moves again. Some firms lock a little above the starting balance instead; confirm the exact wording on the firm's site.

Starting position

Balance todayDefaults to the account size — a fresh evaluation.Highest balance so farThe number the loss line trails. Never lower than the account size.

Your trading days

Type a net P&L per day. The two optional columns are the point the day got to at its best and worst before it closed — that is where an intraday trailing drawdown does its damage, and an end-of-day one does not.

Day	Net P&L	Best point (+$ vs open)	Worst point (−$ vs open)	Remove
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

Where the loss line sits, day by day

Day	P&L	Balance	High-water	Loss line	Buffer left	Status
Day 1	+$600	$25,600	$25,600	$24,600	$1,000	alive
Day 2	-$400	$25,200	$25,600	$24,600	$600	alive
Day 3$25,200 – $26,000	+$300	$25,500	$26,000	$25,000locked	$500	alive
Day 4	-$750	$24,750	$26,000	$25,000locked	-$250	BREACHED
Day 5	+$200	$24,950	$26,000	$25,000locked	-$50	account already gone

Buffer is the closing balance minus the loss line that now applies. Touching the line is a breach, not a warning — most firms close the account on contact, intraday.

Balance at the end

$24,750

Loss line now

$25,000

Buffer left

-$250

Outcome

Breached on day 4

Day 4 ends the account

Equity reached $24,750 against a loss line of $25,000 — the line had already been pulled up by a high-water mark of $26,000.

The same days under each model

For contrast only — Apex Trader Funding uses intraday trailing drawdown on this account. This is why two traders with identical P&L can get different outcomes at different firms.

Model	Loss line at the end	Buffer left	Outcome
Static drawdown	$24,000	$950	Survived
End-of-day trailing drawdown	$24,600	$350	Survived
Intraday trailing drawdownthis firm	$25,000	-$250	Breached day 4

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Frequently asked

What is a trailing drawdown?

A loss limit measured from the highest balance your account has ever reached, not from the balance you started with. Make $1,000 and the line moves up $1,000 with you; lose it back and you are that much closer to the limit even though your balance is where it began.

What is the difference between intraday and end-of-day trailing?

The floor trails your highest equity ever reached, unrealised profit included. Being up $1,000 mid-session and giving it back lifts the floor by $1,000 and it never comes down — this is the model that ends most evaluations. The floor is recalculated at the firm’s daily close, off that day’s CLOSING balance. An intraday spike you give back before the close does not raise it — but your equity touching the existing floor at any point during the day is still a breach.

Which model does my firm use?

Of the 22 futures prop firms PassTraq tracks, 22 sell at least one end-of-day trailing plan, 7 sell an intraday trailing plan and 5 sell a static-drawdown plan — several sell more than one, and you choose which at checkout. Pick your firm and plan above and the simulator uses that model.

Does the drawdown stop trailing once I am in profit?

At many firms, yes: the floor stops moving once it reaches your starting balance, so it can never be higher than the account you bought. PassTraq records that per firm and the simulator marks the day it locks. Where a firm locks slightly above the starting balance, or where PassTraq has not verified the lock, the page says so rather than assuming it.

Why does the simulator refuse to compute for some account sizes?

Firms that set their limits as a fixed dollar ladder publish a different figure for every account size. Where PassTraq has not verified the row for a size, the tool says "not verified" instead of applying a percentage — a percentage would produce a confident, wrong number, which is worse than no number.

Is this the same calculation PassTraq uses on a real account?

The rules are: both read the same firm presets. The difference is the input — this page uses numbers you type, while the app runs them against your imported or synced fills and warns you as the buffer shrinks.

Track this on a real account

A calculator is a snapshot. PassTraq runs these same limits against your actual fills, every day, and warns you before a breach instead of after.

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Every figure here is the firm's own published number, read from the same rulebook PassTraq's challenge tracker uses. Rules change without notice — always confirm on the firm's site before you rely on one. PassTraq is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of any prop firm unless a link is explicitly marked as a partner link. Nothing here is financial advice.