Apex Trader Funding Rule Changes (2026)
Apex's biggest change in years landed on March 1, 2026, splitting the evaluation and funded-account rulebook into two new products. Every verified change below is dated and sourced, with a note on what it means for a script that isn't reading the help center.
Apex 4.0: legacy Evaluation/PA retired for two new trailing-drawdown product lines
| Old | One product line covered both stages — subscription-billed Evaluation accounts feeding into Performance Accounts (PA), all under a single rulebook. |
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| New | Two new products replace it: EOD Trailing Drawdown and Intraday Trailing Drawdown accounts. Evaluation and PA purchases under the old rulebook stopped as of March 1, 2026 and are now Legacy — existing Legacy accounts keep running and can still renew on the old terms. |
Impact on automated strategies: This is a fork, not a patch. A script built against the old Evaluation/PA numbers isn't automatically compatible with either new line, since EOD and Intraday trailing drawdown move differently intraday. Confirm which product a fresh purchase actually landed on before pointing a strategy at it.
Source: Apex Help Center — Status Updates (Legacy accounts notice)
Payout consistency requirement: 30% on Legacy PA vs. 50% on new accounts
| Old | Legacy Performance Accounts must clear a 30% consistency (“windfall”) rule before a payout is approved — no single day may account for more than 30% of total profit. |
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| New | New EOD and Intraday accounts use a looser 50% consistency requirement measured at payout time instead. Neither version applies during the evaluation phase. |
Impact on automated strategies: A single strong session is less likely to block a payout under the new 50% cap than under the legacy 30% rule, but it doesn't remove the rule — a strategy that books most of its profit in one outlier day still needs more profitable days afterward before that money clears. A soft daily profit cap around a quarter of the target satisfies either version without manual tracking.
Source: Apex Help Center — EOD Payouts (50% Consistency Requirement) · Apex Help Center — Legacy PA Payout Parameters (30% rule)
New-product payouts: 100% split, $500 minimum per request
| Old | Legacy PA payouts carried a safety-net requirement — the trailing drawdown amount plus $100 held back — on the first three payout requests, with a $500 minimum payout. |
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| New | New EOD accounts pay out at a 100% split — traders keep the full approved amount. The $500 minimum payout carries over at every account size; eligibility still depends on account size, type, trading activity, balance thresholds, and the 50% consistency requirement above. |
Impact on automated strategies: The $500 floor and the balance thresholds matter more to withdrawal planning than to how the script trades. Build them into the equity plan so a payout request never drops the account below its post-payout floor while the strategy keeps running.
Source: Apex Help Center — EOD Payouts · Apex Help Center — Legacy PA Payout Parameters