Intraday Trailing Drawdown — Evaluation Accounts

At a glance

• Live trailing drawdown tracks your peak account balance (including unrealized P&L) and never moves lower.
• No daily loss limit on intraday trailing evaluations.
• Fixed contract size for the full evaluation — no eval-stage scaling.
• No minimum trading days — you can pass as soon as the profit target is reached in a single session.
• 30 calendar days to pass (Day 0 through end of Day 30).
• After you pass, you have 7 calendar days to activate the matching intraday-drawdown PRO Account.

This evaluation is a one-step assessment: hit the profit target while respecting the live trailing floor. The same trailing model carries into your PRO Account; consistency rules and contract scaling apply only after you activate PRO.

Plan parameters

Enforced in Rithmic as a limited trailing minimum account balance on live equity. Prefer EOD drawdown instead? See Plan Rules.

How to pass

You pass when both conditions are true:

1. Your account balance reaches the profit target for your size.
2. You never breach the intraday trailing threshold at any time.

There is no required number of trading days. Once you pass, complete PRO activation (signatures and payment) within 7 calendar days. PRO activation is a separate fee from your evaluation purchase.

Trading rules during the evaluation

1. Do not breach the intraday trailing threshold

The trailing threshold is the lowest balance your account may reach at any moment in the session. It rises with your peak balance (realized and unrealized) and does not step back down.

If live equity touches or falls through that floor, open positions are auto-liquidated and the evaluation fails immediately.

Liquidation fills at market. Slippage can leave your filled balance slightly above or below the threshold; a touch or break of the floor still fails the account.

2. No prohibited trading activity

Evaluations must be completed with independent, directional trading. You may not pass by hedging one Edmond evaluation against another, offsetting risk across accounts, or otherwise circumventing the rules.

Full list: Prohibited Activities. Violations can result in immediate account closure.

Pass window & resets

• One-time evaluation fee — no auto-renewal on the eval itself.
• Trade from Day 0 (start date) through the end of Day 30.
• Paid resets use only remaining time in that same window; they do not add 30 new days.
• After Day 30 without a pass, purchase a new evaluation.

How the trailing threshold works

• Sets the maximum total drawdown allowed on the account.
• Moves in real time with peak balance (realized + unrealized).
• Only rises — it never steps lower.
• Breach → auto-liquidation; evaluation fails or the PRO Account closes.
• On PRO Accounts, trailing stops rising once the floor reaches starting balance + $100 (safety-net lock).

Example: on a $50,000 intraday PRO with a $2,000 max drawdown, the floor freezes at $50,100 after peak equity has protected that level (starting balance + max drawdown + $100).

Intraday PRO Account payouts (summary)

• Up to weekly requests · 100% payout split when eligible
• 5 qualifying days at the size-based minimum daily profit (not consecutive)
• Minimum request $500 · 50% consistency · max 6 payouts per PRO Account

Full procedures, consistency examples, and per-payout caps: Payout Rules.