The Apex Trader Funding Consistency Rule, Explained

You will see 30%, 50%, '7 days' and 'no rule' quoted for Apex, and each belongs to a different account version or phase. Apex relaunched its programs on March 1 2026. Accounts bought on or after that date follow the 50% consistency requirement, 5 qualifying days and a 100% payout split. Accounts bought before it stay on the legacy rules: 30% windfall consistency, 7 minimum trading days, 100% of the first $25,000 then 90%.

Evaluations, old or new, are a separate gate from payouts. Current EOD and Intraday evaluations have no consistency rule at all.

On Apex's EOD and Intraday evaluations there is no consistency requirement and no minimum trading days. You trade against a profit target ($1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 for 25K–150K), a max drawdown ($1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,000) and, on EOD evals only, a daily loss limit ($500 / $1,000 / $1,500 / $2,000). One excellent day can pass the evaluation outright (Apex EOD evaluations article, October 2026).

This is why traders say 'Apex has no consistency rule.' For the evaluation phase that is accurate. It stops being accurate the moment the PA is activated.

Apex's 50% Consistency Requirement article (apextraderfunding.com/help-center/additional-helpful-items/50-consistency-requirement/, October 2026) states the rule: "no single trading day accounts for more than 50% of your total accumulated profit at the time of a payout request." The calculation resets after each approved payout, so every payout cycle starts clean.

Legacy PAs (bought before March 1 2026) keep the 30% windfall rule described in Apex's legacy consistency article, along with 7 minimum trading days and the 100%-of-first-$25,000-then-90% split.

• Consistency % = best single day ÷ total accumulated profit at the time of the request.
• New PA: must be 50% or less. Legacy PA: 30% or less.
• Also required: 5 trading days at or above the minimum daily profit, $500 minimum, within the per-payout cap.
• The check is per account; it does not pool across your stack.

You have a $100K EOD PA bought in April 2026 with $3,000 of accumulated profit, and your best single day was $1,800. That day is 60% of the total ($1,800 ÷ $3,000), above 50%, so you cannot request yet. You keep trading. After $700 more across normal sessions the total is $3,700 and the best day is 48.6% ($1,800 ÷ $3,700). Now check the other gates: at least 5 trading days at or above $300 (the 100K EOD minimum daily profit), a request of at least $500, and no more than the $2,000 first-payout cap for a 100K. If those hold, the request goes in. After approval the consistency count resets to zero.

On a legacy 100K PA the same $1,800 day needs $6,000 of accumulated profit before it drops to 30%. The profit is never lost; it just cannot be withdrawn until the distribution evens out.

Consistency is evaluated per PA. Copying identical trades to every PA produces an identical daily distribution on each, so they clear or miss the 50% check together. That makes the planning simpler, and it also means an oversized day on the leader is an oversized day on every PA at once.

TradeDupe mirrors one leader's Tradovate fills, including bracket TP/SL, to the Apex accounts you enable, with an on/off toggle per follower. If one PA is close to a payout request and you want to protect its ratio, switch that follower off for the session. The copier does not change the math on any account.