MyFundedFutures and Apex Trader Funding both fund futures traders on the same CME contracts, so the choice between them isn’t about instruments — it’s about how the drawdown behaves. And on that single axis they can differ enough to suit completely different risk styles.
Drawdown type: EOD/static vs trailing
Start here, because it drives everything else. Both firms cap your loss with a floor, but how the floor moves is the whole game.
- Apex Trader Funding is best known for its trailing drawdown — a floor that climbs with your high-water mark and, on many accounts, locks once it reaches your starting balance. Before the lock, a give-back after a peak can breach you while you’re still green.
- MyFundedFutures offers programs with end-of-day (EOD) trailing and, on some plans, more static-style floor behavior — floors that reprice once per session on settled balance or sit still rather than chasing intraday equity.
The difference is felt every session. An intraday-trailing floor punishes a normal retrace after a strong move; an EOD or static floor gives that retrace room to breathe because the floor didn’t move up on the unrealized spike. Neither is universally better — a steady scalper barely notices a trailing floor, while a volatile trader who banks then retraces gets minefielded by one and rescued by the other. The mechanics vary by program at both firms, so confirm the exact floor type on the specific account you buy.
Evaluation models and account tiers
Both firms run evaluations that gate access to funded capital, across a ladder of account sizes.
- Apex typically runs a single-phase evaluation — hit the target under the trailing drawdown and you’re through, which gets traders funded relatively fast.
- MyFundedFutures offers multiple program types, including faster tracks and models with different day and drawdown requirements, so you can pick the structure that matches how you trade.
Both attach rules that stop a one-lucky-day pass — minimum activity or trading-day expectations and a daily loss stop. The right pick depends on whether you want the fastest possible route to funded (favoring a lean single-phase model) or a program whose floor mechanics and pacing better fit your style even if it takes a touch longer. Confirm current targets and day counts with each firm — both revise them.
Contract sizing and scaling
Each account size at both firms carries a maximum contract limit — a hard cap on how many contracts and micros you can hold at once. It’s a rule, not a guideline: blowing past it can void a trade or fail an evaluation regardless of whether the trade was profitable.
Size to the cap and the floor, not to conviction:
- Match position size to the contract limit for your account tier, and remember micros count on their own scale.
- On a trailing floor, keep size modest pre-lock so a single normal pullback can’t reach a floor that just ratcheted up.
- On an EOD/static floor, you have more give-back tolerance intraday, but the daily loss limit still governs the session.
Scaling into larger capital at either firm rewards the same thing — consistent, rule-abiding size — and punishes the same thing: one oversized loss that eats the cushion you spent weeks building.
Payout structure and thresholds
Both firms pay a share of funded-account profit, release payouts on a schedule, and layer in rules about how the money is made.
- Consistency-style rules discourage a single monster day from dominating your results and can delay a payout even when you’re net profitable.
- Payout thresholds and waiting periods set when and how much you can withdraw.
Treat any specific split, threshold, or waiting period you’ve read secondhand as potentially stale — both firms adjust them — and confirm with the firm before you count on a number. The durable point: steady, repeatable results get paid smoothly; lumpy all-in-one-day trading gets flagged at both.
Cost and reset economics
The fee on the sticker isn’t the real cost. What matters is the cost per funded dollar, adjusted for how likely you are to pass and how often you’ll reset.
| MyFundedFutures | Apex Trader Funding | |
|---|---|---|
| Asset class | CME futures | CME futures |
| Signature drawdown | EOD / static-style options | Trailing (often locks at start balance) |
| Evaluation | Multiple program types | Typically single-phase |
| Contract limits | Per account tier | Per account tier |
| Reset economics | Confirm current terms | Confirm current terms |
A trailing-floor account you keep breaching and resetting can cost far more over a few months than a slightly pricier account with a floor that suits you and survives. Weigh the evaluation fee, your realistic pass probability under the specific drawdown type, the reset cost, and the profit split together — not any one in isolation.
Best fit by risk style
- Lean MyFundedFutures if you have volatile sessions — big moves with give-back — and want an EOD or static-style floor that doesn’t chase your intraday equity, plus a program type that matches your pacing.
- Lean Apex if you’re a steady grinder who rarely hands profit back, you want the fastest single-phase route to funded, and you’ll respect the trailing floor until it locks.
Either way, the account is only as safe as your ability to know your floor in real time and not trade past it. Shibiki tracks the exact floor per account — trailing or static — auto-journals every fill, scores live edge health per strategy with a Wilson confidence interval so you fund what’s actually proven, and enforces a hard risk limit at the broker a margin inside the firm’s line. Recompute your live room before every session with the prop-firm drawdown calculator so “how much can I lose right now” is a number, not a guess.
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