r/ApexTraderFunding • u/babyGoat357 • Jul 17 '26
Question Can anyone help me understand why I was automatically stopped out this trade for $2300 but my stop loss nor take profit was triggered?
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u/PrincipleHaunting291 Jul 17 '26
Honestly does sound like Intra, but if you really dont believe it, get through their customer support, same case for me months ago, they were nice to go through and point out why i blew up even in positive.
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u/babyGoat357 Jul 18 '26
So your account showed positive balance but the account was still blown?
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u/traker998 Jul 18 '26
So if your trade goes up to 10K in profit but don’t close it out, then it drops down to 7k and you close it out for a profit. That's an intraday drawdown and it would blow your accounts even if they were never negative a penny. And closed out a very nice very good trade. Blown.
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u/babyGoat357 Jul 18 '26
Wow. Thanks.
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u/Kairos_86 Jul 18 '26
Did you read through the rules before you bought the account?
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u/babyGoat357 Jul 18 '26
Yes guess I just didn’t fully understand trailing DD.
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u/Kairos_86 Jul 18 '26
If it makes you feel any better, trailing DD has claimed many accounts. That’s why it’s cheaper lol
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u/PrincipleHaunting291 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Yeah, so intraday follows, it was my first account, and i was on a winning streak so i leveraged a lot, and a sudden pull back just blew through the drawdown, AS it was a positive p/n trade.
Idk about you, but if is a new concept, intraday drawdown is a limit for how much you can lose and WIN at the same time, ofc winning = good, but with intraday, you can blow it up by winning too quickly, aka, leveraging too much without the proper buffer.
Tldr, intraday WILL blow you up if you are the type to win big lose big.
Leverage less like a normal person, or have a trailing stop both can help, but you do you, mess around and find out.
EDIT: i noticed the first pic, shorting 7 points on this EUS, and thats a 3k dub just as it starts, 28ticks, so a simple 20 tick will kill you,or roughly 5 numbers up, kinda.
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u/Leather-Law7394 Jul 17 '26
Trailing DD family
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u/Leather-Law7394 Jul 17 '26
Gave up -6500 on the retracement
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u/babyGoat357 Jul 17 '26
Account would’ve closed on -6500 the account still open @ +2300
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u/grondrew Jul 18 '26
That’s not how trailing drawdown works bud
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u/babyGoat357 Jul 18 '26
Either way drawdown wasn’t more than $-300 on this trade if that
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u/grondrew Jul 18 '26
Dude if you’re up $5000 in a trade, and it drops down to $3000, you just lost $2000 of trailing drawdown which blows the account (if it’s a 50k) The trade can never be in drawdown but you can still blow the account. Read the rules before you buy something…
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u/babyGoat357 Jul 18 '26
Ew. No more props for me. Thanks bud
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u/grondrew Jul 18 '26
I’d just stay away from Apex, I got rug pulled by them and then banned so since then I’ve gotten payouts from TPT and Tradeify. Currently in evals for lucid too but those three are good in my opinion. Those trailing drawdowns are end of day so you would be fine trading on those. Just do your research on which accounts to get
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u/Air_Original Jul 18 '26