Apex Trader Funding vs YLOS Trading

Intraday Trail Standard (activation fee included), EOD Trail Standard (activation fee included), Intraday Trail (No Activation Fee), EOD Trail (No Activation Fee)

Soft limit: positions are liquidated and trading pauses until the 6 pm ET reset; the account stays active. EOD evaluations: $500 (25K), $1,000 (50K), $1,500 (100K), $2,000 (150K), fixed. Intraday evaluations: none. Performance Accounts: tiered limit that rises with profit, for example 50K from $1,000 to $3,000 at $6,000 profit, and 150K from $2,500 to $4,000.

Chosen at purchase: EOD Trail or Intraday Trail, $1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $3,000 (100K), $4,000 (150K). EOD: threshold recalculated once a day at 4:59:59 pm ET from the closing balance and enforced in real time; in evaluations it trails indefinitely on Tradovate and becomes fixed at the profit target balance on Rithmic and WealthCharts. Intraday: follows the peak balance, including unrealised profit, in real time. In Performance Accounts both types stop trailing at starting balance plus $100 (for example $50,100 on 50K).

Evaluation (Standard, No Activation Fee, Freedom): end of day, but the account is blocked immediately if the balance falls below the limit intraday. Funded: real time (tick by tick) trailing until profit equals the drawdown plus $100, then static. Freedom 2.0 funded: end of day, never becomes static. Static Prime: static $1,500 drawdown. EOD Drawdown add on available.

Evaluation can be passed in one day. Each payout needs five qualifying days with minimum profit of $100 (25K), $200 (50K Intraday) or $250 (50K EOD), $250 (100K Intraday) or $300 (100K EOD), $300 (150K Intraday) or $350 (150K EOD).

Standard and No Activation Fee evaluation: minimum 1 day. Freedom 2.0 evaluation: at least 5 days with $50 profit a day. Funded payouts: 10 trading days with 7 winning days of $50 or more (Standard, No Activation Fee); 5 days with $200 net profit a day (Instant Funding).

New evaluations are active for 30 calendar days from purchase and expire at 6 pm ET on day 30, with no extensions or resets. The Performance Account must be activated within 7 days of passing. An inactivity policy applies to Performance Accounts (terms not captured).

None; one time fee with no renewals. Accounts must record activity at least once every 7 days (a closed result of at least $100 positive or negative).

Allowed with a normal directional strategy. News strategies that chase the market or place orders on both sides to gamble on the outcome are prohibited.

Allowed in the evaluation. Funded accounts must not be positioned at the time of news releases (may trade immediately after). Freedom 2.0 funded and the Freedom Rules add on remove this restriction. Bracketing news with pending orders on both sides is prohibited.

All trades must be closed before 4:59 pm ET (agricultural futures earlier, from 2:05 pm ET); holding positions through the market close is prohibited.

Intraday only. All positions must be closed at least 30 minutes before the close (3:30 pm Chicago time on normal days); holding past the close blocks the account and zeroes the balance. No overnight or swing trading.

No automation or algorithms allowed. Hedging of any kind (long and short on the same or correlated instruments), high frequency trading, non directional bracket trading and sharing or copying trades with other traders are prohibited. WealthCharts includes a built in trade copier for a trader's own accounts.

No automation of any kind except the official Ylos Order Replicator. Copying external signals, copiers between different accounts, third party EAs, martingale, grid, hedging and microscalping (trades of 30 seconds or less in most trades) are prohibited.

None in the evaluation. Performance Accounts: 50%, so no single profitable day may account for 50% or more of total profit since the last approved payout.

Funded Standard and No Activation Fee: no day above 40% of net profit in the period (resets after each withdrawal), plus a median rule (largest loss no more than 5 times the median winning trade) and contract size consistency. Instant Funding: 30%. Freedom 2.0: evaluation requires no single day to reach 40% of the target; no funded consistency, median or contract consistency rules.

Balance must stay above the safety net (drawdown plus $100) and reach it plus the $500 minimum, for example $52,600 on 50K. Caps per payout: $1,000 on 25K for all six payouts; 50K $1,500 rising to $3,000; 100K $2,000 rising to $4,000; 150K $2,500 rising to $5,000 by the sixth payout.

Balance must exceed a buffer of the drawdown plus $100 (e.g. $52,600 on 50K). Compliance review within 1 business day, funds released to the wallet within 24 to 48 business hours. Initial withdrawals are capped by account size: $1,500 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $2,500 (100K), $2,750 (150K) and $3,500 (300K) per withdrawal. Freedom 2.0 caps: $1,000 (25K) and $1,500 (50K) per withdrawal.

Up to weekly: a request is possible after every five qualifying trading days. Maximum six approved payouts per Performance Account, after which the account closes.

Standard and No Activation Fee: every 10 trading days. Instant Funding: every 5 trading days. Freedom 2.0: one withdrawal per day. Requests accepted from 5 am Monday to 12 pm Friday Chicago time.

Not applicable; evaluation limits of 4, 6, 8 and 12 minis (40 to 120 micros) and Performance Account maximums of 2, 4, 6 and 10 minis.

Not applicable; contract limits of 4 minis (25K), 10 (50K), 14 (100K), 17 (150K) and 35 (300K) on Standard, No Activation Fee and Instant Funding; Freedom 2.0 2 minis (25K) and 5 minis (50K) per pricing page.

Performance Accounts use tier based scaling in which maximum contracts and the daily loss limit rise with profit, reviewed at market close: 25K from 1 to 2 contracts, 50K from 2 to 4, 100K from 3 to 6, 150K from 4 to 10. Up to 20 Performance Accounts per household (Legacy, Intraday and EOD combined); no limit on evaluations. Consistent traders may be invited to an Apex Live account.