Free Tool — Apex PA Rules

Apex Consistency Rule Calculator

The 30% rule only applies on a funded Apex Performance Account. Enter your PA profit target to see the maximum profit allowed in a single trading day, plus a safer recommended cap.

Understanding Apex's 30% consistency rule

PA only — not during evaluation

The consistency rule sits outside the evaluation entirely. A blow-out day covering 90% of your evaluation profit still passes without issue. The 30% cap only kicks in once you're trading a live funded Performance Account and have a payout request in.

How the 30% is calculated

Apex looks at total PA profit — every closed trade since the PA started — and checks whether any single calendar day made up more than 30% of that total. On a 50k PA with a $3,000 target, no single day can show more than $900 in realized profit. The 25% recommended cap shown above ($750) leaves a buffer for rounding or partial fills at payout review.

Why the rule exists

It's there to filter out traders who get lucky on one highly-leveraged trade, withdraw immediately, and try to repeat the cycle. Apex wants repeatable, distributed profitability — meeting the rule is evidence of a process, not a single good day.

The consistency rule counts realized, closed P&L only. Open floating gains don't count toward the daily total until the position is closed.

Want the daily cap held on the account, not just the chart?

CrossTrade's Account Manager can flatten and lock an account once it reaches a max daily profit you set, on NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate. Every strategy in Pro ships with CrossTrade-ready alerts. Check Apex's current automation rules first.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does the Apex consistency rule apply during the evaluation?
No. The 30% cap only applies on a funded Performance Account (PA). During the evaluation itself, a single day can account for any share of your total profit — there is no consistency requirement until you are trading a live funded PA.
What happens if I exceed the 30% consistency rule on Apex?
A single day above 30% of your total PA profit flags the account for review and can hold up a payout request. Apex doesn't fail the account mid-session for this — but it is grounds for withholding payment. Capping your daily target at 25% instead of 30% leaves a buffer.
How do I use a Pine Script to enforce the consistency rule?
Add a daily profit cap variable that tracks realized P&L for the current session, then block new entries once it hits 25–30% of the PA profit target. See our Pine Script snippets library for a daily profit cap you can drop into an existing strategy.

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