Apex Trader Funding Minimum Trading Days
Rules verified 2026-07-15 · official source
Apex Trader Funding has NO minimum trading days in the evaluation — you can pass in a single day, but payouts require 5 qualifying days.
What counts as a trading day
A day counts when you close at least one trade inside the firm's trading-day boundary (Apex Trader Funding resets at 17:00 America/New_York). Days don't need to be consecutive, and there's no minimum P&L per day — a tiny trade counts.
Apex 4.0 removed minimum days from the evaluation entirely; the 5-day requirement lives on the payout side (qualifying days).
| Phase | Minimum days |
|---|---|
| Evaluation | None |
| PA (Funded) | 5 |
How traders actually breach it
The usual mistake is hitting the profit target early, stopping, and only then discovering the day count — or force-trading junk sessions just to log days and giving profit back. Know the count before you plan the pass.
TradersGuild tracks this rule live against your trade log and alerts you while there's still room — "you're $220 from the line" beats finding out from a breach email. Tracking is free for your first account.
Recent Apex Trader Funding rule changes
2026-07-15 — Evaluation drawdown-lock corrected per Apex's own help center: the eval threshold's behavior is PLATFORM-SPLIT — on Tradovate it trails your Peak Balance indefinitely and never locks; on Rithmic/WealthCharts it trails until the account reaches start + target + trailing threshold (e.g. $55,000 on the 50K), then fixes at start + target ($53,000) and no longer trails. TradersGuild now encodes the conservative Tradovate (never-locks) branch so room is never overstated. The PA (funded) lock is unchanged and re-verified: real-time trail locking at start+$100 once the peak (realized or unrealized) reaches start + trailing threshold + $100.
2026-07-07 — Added the legacy 250K Evaluation ($15,000 goal, $6,500 trailing threshold, 27 contracts) — retired for new purchases in Apex 4.0, but live legacy accounts keep trading under the 4.0 payout policy.
FAQ
How many trading days does Apex Trader Funding require?
None in the evaluation; 5 qualifying days for payouts.
Do the Apex Trader Funding trading days have to be consecutive?
No — only the count matters. Any day with at least one closed trade counts toward it.
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