@TradeWithAlden Banks First Apex Payout of $1,500 in June 2026
A trader posting as @TradeWithAlden on X marked a personal milestone in late June 2026, sharing proof of a first payout request approved through Apex Trader Funding for $1,500. The post was brief, but the certificate told the story.
Alden, posting under the handle @TradeWithAlden on X, shared a screenshot of an approval notification from Apex Trader Funding alongside a short caption marking the milestone. The post, dated June 24, 2026, simply read: 'My 1st payout request. @ApexTradeFund.' For a trader new to the funded account world, a first payout is a meaningful checkpoint, and Alden chose to make it public rather than keep it quiet.
The proof attached to the post points to a payout of $1,500, approved in June 2026. The post itself does not disclose which evaluation tier Alden was trading, nor does it mention the instruments traded or the strategy used to reach the payout threshold. What it does establish is the basic chain of events that matters to anyone evaluating the program: a trader passed evaluation, traded a funded account, requested a withdrawal, and received approval from Apex Trader Funding.
“My 1st payout request. @ApexTradeFund.”— @TradeWithAlden on X, June 24, 2026
First payouts are often the moment a trader stops treating a funded account as a hypothetical and starts treating it as a working income stream. Apex Trader Funding has built its reputation around making that first cycle accessible, and the program structure reflects that intent. Traders who clear the evaluation phase and move into a funded account are eligible to request payouts on a recurring cadence, with the platform processing withdrawals on a schedule designed for active futures traders.
Apex Trader Funding processes payouts on a twice monthly schedule, which gives funded traders two regular windows each month to convert performance into cash. For a trader like Alden, who is documenting a first request, that cadence means the next opportunity is never far away once the initial approval lands. The visible $1,500 figure is modest by the program's upper limits, but it confirms the pipeline from evaluation to funded trading to actual withdrawal is working as advertised for this account.
What remains undisclosed in Alden's post is also worth noting. There is no mention of account size, no breakdown of trading days required, and no description of the instruments behind the result. Readers who want to extrapolate beyond the screenshot should treat the $1,500 figure as a single data point tied to one trader's first cycle, not as a representative outcome. The value of the post lies in its specificity: a named handle, a dated request, an approval month, and a visible certificate.