Intraday trailing drawdown explained
An intraday floor follows your highest account value in real time, including open profit you never closed. It is the strictest common type.
How it works
The floor follows the highest value your account reaches in real time, including unrealized profit. If you're up $1,400 on an open trade for a moment, the floor rises $1,400 with it, even if you close that trade flat.
The floor doesn't come back down. So a winner that turns around can use up your room without ever appearing as a loss on your balance.
Your account Loss floor
Closed on day 3: the account fell to $49,350, at or below the $49,400 floor.
A big intraday gain that isn't banked, then a red day. Example: $50,000 account, $2,000 max loss, floor stops rising at the starting balance. Firms set their own numbers.
A worked example
| Moment | Account value | Floor | Room left |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | $50,000 | $48,000 | $2,000 |
| Trade peaks | $51,400 | $49,400 | $2,000 |
| You exit back at the start | $50,000 | $49,400 | $600 |
Your balance shows no loss, yet you've gone from $2,000 of room to $600.
Firms that use intraday drawdown
As of November 12, 2026, 23 of the 86 firms PropTested tracks use intraday drawdown on at least one plan. Plans are counted per size, the way the plan browser counts them.
| Firm | Market | Plans with intraday drawdown | Max loss at $50K |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apex Trader Funding | Futures | 26 plans | $2,000 to $2,500 |
| Alpha Capital | Forex | 24 plans | $2,000 to $4,000 |
| Maven | Forex | 23 plans | $1,500 to $2,500 |
| Goat Funded Trader | Forex | 14 plans | $3,000 to $4,000 |
| Bulenox | Futures | 12 plans | $2,000 to $2,500 |
| Traderscale | Forex | 11 plans | $3,000 to $4,000 |
| BrightFunded | Forex | 10 plans | $2,000 to $3,000 |
| DayTraders.com | Futures | 7 plans | $2,000 to $2,500 |
| Crypto Fund Trader | Perps | 6 plans | $3,000 |
| FundingPips | Forex | 6 plans | $2,500 |
| Propr | Perps | 6 plans | $4,000 |
| ThinkCapital | Forex | 6 plans | $3,000 |
| Funded Futures Family | Futures | 5 plans | $2,000 to $2,250 |
| NEOM Funded | Forex | 5 plans | $2,000 |
| Savius | Futures | 5 plans | $2,000 |
| Ylos Trading | Futures | 5 plans | $2,500 |
| Blueberry Futures | Futures | 4 plans | $2,000 |
| BrightFunded Futures | Futures | 4 plans | $2,000 |
| Finotive Futures | Futures | 4 plans | $2,500 |
| Goat Funded Futures | Futures | 4 plans | $2,500 |
| Lucid Trading | Futures | 4 plans | $2,000 |
| TradeDay | Futures | 4 plans | $2,000 |
| BluSky Trading | Futures | 1 plan | $2,000 |
How traders manage it
- Take profit at set levels, so a peak isn't given back in full.
- Trade smaller until the floor has locked, if the plan has a lock.
- Set your stop by the live distance to the floor, and recheck it after every peak.
- Be careful holding through news, where a spike can raise the floor and reverse within seconds.
Every firm words this differently. Before you buy, read the exact rule on the firm's own page, which we link on each plan.