@JeredKing Posts $21,000 Apex Payout and a Long Game Plan
On December 8, trader @JeredKing told his X followers he had just hit the payout threshold on another Apex Trader Funding account, and used the moment to point back at a $21,000 withdrawal he banked earlier in the year.
Jered King, posting under the handle @JeredKing on X, shared an update on December 8 detailing how he had just hit the payout threshold on another Apex Trader Funding account. The post was less about a single withdrawal and more about a philosophy: stop chasing the smallest allowed payout and start building toward something significantly larger. He closed out the trading day in that account and signaled he was rotating into others, treating each funded account as a piece of a longer campaign rather than a finish line.
King made clear he is not worried about the 30 percent consistency rule that governs how account balance growth is distributed across trading days. His stated plan is to push the account equity well above the starting balance as quickly as possible, which naturally creates the cushion needed to satisfy that rule when larger withdrawal requests come due. In his own words, the focus is not on a $2,000 payout but on a $20,000 plus payout three months from now.
“Focus on big money and withdraw big money. They hope you play the short game, best believe that.”— @JeredKing on X
To back up the philosophy, he pointed to a concrete result from earlier in the year. This past summer King reported a $21,000 payout with Apex Trader Funding, which is the figure highlighted in the certificate attached to this post. He explained the cadence plainly: he happily took the $2,000 maximum for the first three months that newly funded accounts are eligible for, and then when the fourth month arrived he withdrew $21,000. After the first three payouts on a PA account, traders can request up to 100 percent of profits, which is what allowed that fourth month figure to land where it did.
His framing of the trader mindset was blunt. "Focusing on the little money and that's all you get," he wrote, contrasting that with "play the long game." The implication is that the program is structured to reward patience and disciplined scaling, and that traders who anchor their goals to the early small caps tend to stay anchored there. King argued that focusing on big money and withdrawing big money is the path he intends to keep walking, with this December threshold simply being another step in that direction.
The post does not disclose which account size produced the summer $21,000 figure or which one he just qualified for payout on in December, and he did not name a specific instrument or strategy in the message. What he did share is a behavioral template: pass evaluations, rotate through accounts, take the early payouts when they are capped, then aim for a materially larger withdrawal once the account is past its early restrictions. The $21,000 certificate stands as the receipt for that approach working at least once already this year.