Topstep 50K CombinePassed on day 9End of day, $2,000 behind the best close. The floor locked at $50,000 on day 5, so day 6 kept $800 of room.
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Balance at the closeThe floorFloorTarget $53,000
Passed, day 9. Day 9 reaches the $53,000 target, and the evaluation stops there. Day 6 came within $800 of the floor.
- Closest call
- $800day 6, above $50,000
- Floor locked
- Day 5best close $52,000
- Best day
- 30%of profit; the rule is 55%
- Room today
- $3,000at the pass, above a locked floor
The same days on other 50K accounts
Four accounts pass these nine days, one is still going, and one ends on day 6.
Topstep 50K CombinePassed on day 9
Apex EOD 50KPassed on day 9Its $1,000 daily limit paused day 6 at −$1,000, so the $1,200 day cost $200 less. The floor never locks in the evaluation.
Apex Intraday 50KEnded on day 6The floor follows open profit: day 6 ran +$800 before it turned, lifting the floor to $50,800, and the close touched it.
TradeDay QP Intraday 50KPassed on day 9The same intraday floor, but it stops at the $50,000 starting balance, so day 6 kept $800 of room.
Tradeify Growth 50KPassed on day 9Its floor never stops rising: by day 9 it sat at $50,400. Day 6 stayed inside its $1,250 daily limit.
Alpha Futures Advanced 50K$950 to goA $1,750 drawdown and a $4,000 target: the same nine days end $950 short, with the account still alive.
Each account replays your nine days under its own drawdown, daily limit and target, evaluation phase, rules checked 21 Oct 2026. A pass is counted the moment the target is reached: the trader stops for the day there, so that day counts only up to the target.
How a day is played: it runs from its open to its best open profit, then to its close. The high comes before the low, the cautious order, so the day’s lowest point is its open or its close, and checking the floor against open profit changes nothing here. A best figure left empty is the day’s result, or $0 on a losing day. A daily loss limit that pauses the day stops it at the limit; one that fails the account ends it there, as the firm states.
Not recorded, so simulated without: Alpha Futures Advanced 50K: the minimum trading days.
Recorded but left out, because a list of days has no calendar or platform: Apex EOD 50K: a stop that differs by trading platform (the plan's one stop is used) and a 30 calendar day time limit; Apex Intraday 50K: a stop that differs by trading platform (the plan's one stop is used) and a 30 calendar day time limit.
Questions
How is a prop firm's trailing drawdown floor set?
The floor sits a fixed distance, the drawdown, below the highest balance the account has reached, and touching it ends the evaluation. On the Topstep 50K Combine the drawdown is $2,000, so a best close of $52,000 puts the floor at $50,000, where it stops. Across the 128 evaluation accounts here the drawdown runs from $250 to $10,000.
What is the difference between an end of day and an intraday trailing drawdown?
An end of day floor moves only with the balance at each day's close. An intraday floor follows the highest balance at any moment, open profit included, so a day that runs up and gives it back lifts the floor anyway: the same day that leaves an end of day account untouched can end an intraday one. Of the 128 accounts here, 101 trail at the end of the day, 22 intraday and five are static.
Does hitting the daily loss limit end a prop account?
Usually not. Of the 52 accounts here with a daily loss limit, 45 stop trading for the rest of the day and keep the account open, and seven (Earn2Trade) fail the account. The drawdown floor is what ends an account. 75 accounts have no daily loss limit at all.
When does a trailing drawdown stop rising?
At 71 of the 123 trailing accounts here it stops at the starting balance, so on a $50,000 account the floor stays at $50,000 once it gets there. 18 stop only at the profit target's balance, which an evaluation reaches only by passing, so their floor never locks before the pass, and 25 never stop rising.
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