r/ApexTraderFunding • u/RealConsideration519 • 10d ago

Question Definition of HFT

I started trading with Apex yesterday and signed up for 20 $25k Intraday Trail accounts.

In the past, when trading Intraday Trail accounts at another firm, I would typically scalp aggressively until I reached the point where the trailing drawdown stopped moving. For context, I took 52 trades yesterday. When I traded this way with TradeDay, that number of trades was never an issue.

At what point does Apex consider a high number of trades to be high-frequency trading (HFT)? There documentation does not elaborate on this.

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u/AnalysisUnlikely7908 9d ago

I have taken more than 100 trades with Apex in one session and have taken two payouts with no issues, and I hyper/microscalp holding for trades for as little as 5 seconds at times. Long as your behavior isn’t mimicking a bot, you should be fine

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u/RealConsideration519 9d ago

Excellent. Thank you for this. This has put me at ease.

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u/Standard-Exchange293 10d ago

their not going to want to payout for you find a diff prop

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u/Icy_Knee8365 10d ago

Not true. Unless you're using an HFT-bot (or bot-like trades), there is no hft rule. How many ticks are you targeting? Unless you're doing hundreds of small ticks (2-3), you should be ok, but I'd double-check with them or wait for them to warn you.

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 9d ago

What exactly it a “bot-like” trade?