Apex Trader Funding: End of Day vs Intraday evals, with the real numbers

Apex sells two eval families: End of Day, where the threshold trails your closing balance and a daily loss limit pauses you for the day, and Intraday, where the threshold trails your peak during the day and there's no daily loss limit. Both are one-time purchases with 30 days to pass, and both are usually sold with a big coupon.

By FundedSim Desk · updated October 20, 2026

End of Day evals

Numbers checked: Apex homepage price widget (2026-10-19) · Apex help center: EOD evaluations (2026-09-12) · Apex help center: EOD drawdown explained (2026-09-12)

The list price is what Apex shows before a coupon. In practice Apex runs a discount most of the time, so the coupon price is what most people pay. Every eval runs for 30 calendar days with no resets: miss the target in time and you buy a new one.

Intraday evals

Numbers checked: Apex homepage price widget (2026-10-19) · Apex help center: Intraday trailing drawdown evaluations (2026-10-19) · Apex help center: Intraday trailing drawdown explained (2026-10-19)

Same targets, same drawdown amounts, cheaper. The catch is how the threshold moves. It follows your peak balance during the session, not your closing balance. On Rithmic and WealthCharts it stops trailing once it reaches the profit target balance. On Tradovate it keeps trailing. There's no daily loss limit on the Intraday eval.

The difference in one example

Take a 50K account and a trade that runs up $1,500 and comes back to flat before you close it.

• End of Day: nothing happened to your threshold. It moves only on the closing balance, and you closed flat.
• Intraday: Apex counts unrealized profit in the peak, so the threshold may have moved up by up to $1,500 during that trade. You just gave back three quarters of your drawdown without losing a dollar.

That's why the cheaper eval isn't the easier one for traders who hold winners through pullbacks.

Daily loss limit on End of Day accounts

The End of Day eval has a daily loss limit ($1,000 on the 50K). It's checked in real time and counts open positions. Hit it and Apex closes your positions and locks you out until the 6 PM ET reset. The account keeps going. It's a pause, not a fail, but the loss still sits under your trailing threshold.

After you pass: the PA

You get seven days to activate your Performance Account. Activation is $59 on Intraday accounts and $119 to $159 on End of Day accounts, or $0 if you bought the No Activation Fee version of the eval.

The PA has its own rules:

• The threshold locks. Once your best end-of-day balance reaches the starting balance plus the drawdown plus $100, the threshold freezes at the starting balance plus $100.
• Contracts and the daily loss limit scale with profit. On a 50K End of Day PA you start at 2 minis and a $1,000 daily loss limit and step up as profit grows.
• Payouts need five qualifying days, a best day under 50% of the profit in the cycle and a balance above the safety net. Each request has a cap, and the sixth payout closes the account.
• Inactivity. PAs started on or after October 20, 2026 need at least two days of $50 or more net profit in every 30 days, or Apex closes them.

What it really costs

With a coupon, an Apex eval is cheap per attempt. The 30-day clock is what makes it add up: if you're not close by week three, you're usually buying another one. Three 50K End of Day attempts at the coupon price is $165, plus $139 to activate the PA when you pass.

Practice it before you pay

The simulator runs every Apex End of Day and Intraday account above with the published rules, including the PA tiers, the payout checks, the six-payout close and the inactivity rule. Pick the exact account you'd buy and see how your normal week treats it.