What Time Does Tradeify's Trading Day Reset?

When the day flips

Tradeify runs its trading day on Chicago time, resetting at 5:00 PM (17:00). Because the boundary is tied to a fixed timezone, it follows that clock through daylight-saving changes — so relative to your own timezone the reset can shift by an hour twice a year. What never changes: it's Tradeify's clock that counts, not the one on your wall.

Any loss you take before the reset belongs to the OLD day and counts against that day's loss limit; the first trade after the reset starts a clean daily count.

Max loss trails your END-OF-DAY balance for the whole evaluation — drawdown locking applies only to Sim Funded accounts, never evaluations (Tradeify's own help center) — and it's enforced in real time, so open losses can breach it intraday.

What the reset actually moves

A reset time sounds like trivia until it costs you an account. At Tradeify, 5:00 PM (17:00) Chicago is when your daily-loss counter zeroes for a fresh day; your end-of-day balance is stamped — the value the trailing max-loss line ratchets up from; the trading-day boundary is drawn — a day counts toward the 1-day minimum if you closed at least one trade before the reset.

The end-of-day stamp is the one that surprises traders: on an end-of-day trailing line, closing a day at a new high permanently moves your max-loss line up behind you. Where you are when the clock strikes 5:00 PM (17:00) is the number that sticks.

How traders actually breach it

The classic reset mistake: stacking losses late in the session, then taking "one more" that quietly rolls past the reset — you think you've reset the daily budget, but the loss landed on the old day and tipped it over the limit. Or the reverse: sizing up right after the reset because "it's a new day," forgetting the max-loss line doesn't reset with it.

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 Tradeify rule changes

2026-07-15 — Drawdown locks corrected per Tradeify's own pages: EVALUATION accounts (Growth and Select) never lock — 'Drawdown only locks on Sim Funded accounts' (the previous Growth-eval lock overstated room). ALL Sim Funded accounts (Growth, Select, Lightning) lock at start+$100: the EOD trail follows your peak end-of-day balance until the failure floor reaches Starting Balance + $100, then stops — the missing Select and Lightning funded locks are now encoded (they previously understated room).

2026-07-13 — Added Lightning Funded (25K/50K/100K/150K) — single-phase instant-funded (no evaluation): end-of-day trailing max drawdown ($1,000 / $2,000 / $4,000 / $5,250) anchored to the end-of-day balance, a SOFT daily loss limit (none on 25K; $1,250 / $2,500 / $3,000) that pauses the day rather than failing you, max position 1 / 4 / 8 / 12 contracts (minis OR micros, not both), and a progressive consistency rule starting at 20% for the first payout. Profit target is published via a linked table Tradeify didn't quote inline, so it's held off (unverified, not 'none').

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