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Apex trailing drawdown calculator
Find your current drawdown floor, how much room you have before you’re out, and how far your peak is from the Safety Net lock. Covers EOD and intraday, eval and PA, every Apex 4.0 size.
Your highest balance ever, including unrealized profit intraday.
Lose this much and the account hits the floor.
Push your peak up by this much and the floor locks in place.
Cobalt tracks your floor live on every trade, so you see it move as you do.
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Apex sets a maximum loss that follows you up. Your floor is your highest balance minus the trailing amount for your size. Make a new high and the floor rises with you; give profit back and the floor stays where it was. Touch the floor and the account is gone. The trailing amounts are $1,000 on a 25K, $2,000 on a 50K, $3,000 on a 100K, and $4,000 on a 150K.
The Safety Net lock on PA accounts
On a Performance Account the floor does not trail forever. Once your highest balance reaches your starting balance plus the trailing amount plus $100, the floor locks for good at your starting balance plus $100. On a 50K that means the floor freezes at $50,100 once you tag $52,100. After that, drawdown is fixed and pulling back no longer risks the account the same way. The calculator shows the dollars of peak climb left before that lock.
EOD vs intraday, eval vs PA
EOD accounts recalculate the floor once a day off your end-of-day balance, so an intraday spike you give back does not ratchet the floor. Intraday accounts trail your real-time high, unrealized profit included, so the same spike does move it. The trail amount and the lock point are identical, only the “highest balance” that counts is different. And the lock itself is PA-only: on the evaluation the floor never freezes, it just keeps trailing up.
Frequently asked
- How is the Apex trailing drawdown calculated?
- Your drawdown floor is your highest balance minus the trailing amount for your account size ($1,000 on a 25K, $2,000 on a 50K, $3,000 on a 100K, $4,000 on a 150K). The floor follows your balance up as you make new highs, but it never moves back down.
- What is the Apex Safety Net?
- On a Performance Account the trailing floor stops moving once your highest balance reaches your starting balance plus the trailing amount plus $100. At that point the floor locks permanently at your starting balance plus $100. The calculator shows how far your peak is from that lock.
- Does the trailing drawdown lock during the evaluation?
- No. On the Apex evaluation the floor trails up forever with new highs and never locks. The Safety Net lock is a PA-only mechanic. Switch the account selector to Eval to see this.
- What's the difference between EOD and intraday trailing?
- EOD accounts recalculate the floor once a day from your end-of-day balance, so intraday spikes do not move it. Intraday accounts trail your highest balance in real time, including unrealized profit. The trail amount and lock point are the same either way; only which "highest balance" counts differs.
Watch the floor move in real time.
Cobalt draws your drawdown floor on every trade, across every account, and warns you before you reach it. See the line before you cross it.
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