The Apex inactivity rule: how long you can go without trading.
A funded Apex account can close permanently just from going quiet, with no drawdown breach and no rule violation involved. Here is the exact threshold, the timeline before it happens, and the separate rule people most often confuse it with.
The mistake almost everyone makes with this rule.
Before covering the inactivity rule itself, it's worth clearing up the confusion that generates most of the search traffic around this topic. Traders regularly conflate two entirely separate Apex rules that happen to both involve a countdown.
7 days, one-time, pre-funding
- Starts when your evaluation is marked Passed
- You pay the activation fee to open your PA
- Miss it, and the opportunity expires permanently
- Your PA does not exist yet at this stage
30 days, ongoing, post-funding
- Applies continuously once your PA is already active
- You need 2 qualifying trading days per rolling 30 days
- Miss it, and the funded account itself is closed
- Your PA already exists and has trading history
These are not the same rule with two names. One governs whether you ever get a funded account in the first place. The other governs whether you keep the one you already have. The full mechanics of the activation deadline are covered separately in the Apex activation fee guide.
No. The inactivity rule described in this article applies specifically to funded Performance Accounts, not to evaluations. Evaluations run on a separate 30-day access window tied to reaching the profit target, with no minimum number of trading days required at any point, covered in full in the Apex profit target guide. You can go as long as you like between sessions during an evaluation without triggering anything resembling the inactivity rule. That rule only begins to matter once you are trading a funded PA.
2 days, $50 net profit, every rolling 30 days.
For your Performance Account to remain active, you must record at least 2 trading days with $50 or more in net profit within every rolling 30-day period. This applies to all Intraday and EOD PAs, as well as Legacy PAs purchased after March 1, 2026.
This is measured continuously, not reset on the 1st of each month. The system constantly looks back at the most recent 30 consecutive calendar days from today. Calendar days include weekends and holidays, all counted as part of the rolling window, not just trading days.
The threshold is flat at $50 regardless of account size. A $25K account and a $150K account face the identical $50 net profit requirement for a qualifying day under this rule. This is different from the minimum daily profit needed to qualify a day toward a payout request, which does scale by account size, covered in the Apex payout rules guide.
What happens day by day.
Last qualifying day recorded
The 30-day rolling window begins counting from your most recent day with $50 or more in net profit.
Account moves to dormant phase
The account appears in the Dormant PAs section of your dashboard. A notification is sent reminding you that the account is dormant and that a time limit applies before permanent closure.
Second notification sent
A further reminder is sent as the account approaches the closure threshold.
Account closed if threshold still unmet
If 30 consecutive calendar days pass without 2 qualifying profit days recorded, the account is closed due to inactivity. This is permanent.
If you complete qualifying trading activity on the 30th day before market close, and it brings your rolling count to 2 qualifying days within that window, your inactivity status resets and the account remains active. The deadline is real, but it is not lost until the session actually closes on that final day.
Placing a trade is not the same as satisfying the rule.
A common misunderstanding is assuming that placing trades, regardless of outcome, keeps an account safe from inactivity closure. It does not. The requirement is specifically 2 days where net profit reaches $50 or more. A day where you traded actively but finished flat or negative does not count as a qualifying day, no matter how much trading activity occurred.
This confirms directly from Apex: placing trades without reaching $50 in net profit does not count toward the requirement and does not prevent closure. The rule is measuring outcome, not activity. Two genuinely profitable days of at least $50 each, within the rolling window, is what keeps the account active.
If you notice your account is approaching the dormant phase, the goal is a small, controlled position sized comfortably above your normal risk on a single trade, not a large position taken purely to guarantee the $50. A modest, well-managed trade that nets $60 to $100 satisfies the requirement with room to spare. Sizing up specifically to force a fast $50 outcome adds real drawdown risk to solve what is otherwise a simple activity requirement. This applies on any two separate days within your rolling 30-day window; you do not need to clear both on the same day.
A separate, more lenient policy for older accounts.
Legacy Performance Accounts purchased before March 1, 2026 do not follow the rule described above. They run on a separate, older policy with a much wider window.
| Factor | Current 4.0 (Intraday / EOD) | Legacy (pre-March 1, 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Window | Rolling 30 days | 150 calendar days |
| Requirement | 2 days at $50+ net profit | 1 day at $150+ net profit |
| Enforcement | Active, results in permanent closure | Warning only, no closure at this time |
If you hold a mix of Legacy and current-generation PAs, which Apex explicitly allows, each account is measured against the policy that applies to its own purchase date, not a single unified rule across your whole portfolio.
The risk multiplies when you run several accounts.
The inactivity rule is easy to satisfy on a single account trading normally. It becomes a genuine operational risk for traders running multiple accounts, particularly through a copy trading setup where one leader account controls activity across several followers. If the leader account stops generating trades for any reason, every follower account's clock keeps running simultaneously, and all of them can approach the 30-day threshold at once.
The full detail on this multi-account risk, including how it interacts with the household 20-account limit, is covered in the Apex copy trading and multiple accounts guide.
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