Bulenox rules explained: two drawdown options and the one you picked
Bulenox makes you choose your drawdown when you buy the account, and the two options are close to opposites. Most of what goes wrong on a Bulenox account comes from trading one option with the habits the other one rewards.
Prop firms change their terms, and rules differ by plan size, phase and promotion. Bulenox’s own rules page is authoritative — always check it against the plan you hold before you trade.
Bulenox at a glance
Where a row says “set per plan size”, the firm states that limit in dollars per account rather than as a single percentage — read it off your own account and enter it when you set the account up.
Edgekeeper loads the Option 1 (trailing drawdown): a floor that trails your live equity, open profit included. The other option trails your end-of-day balance instead, moving once a day at the close, and adds a daily loss limit that stays for the life of the account. If that is the one you bought, edit the account's rule set and the app will judge you by it.
A floor that follows your best tick
On this option the line under your account follows the highest point your equity reaches, open positions included, in real time. A trade that runs well in your favor and comes back to breakeven has moved the floor up by the full run and paid you nothing. That is the opposite of the instinct most traders bring from a retail account, where an open swing costs nothing if you get out flat.
The floor stops rising once it reaches $100 above your starting balance, and everything above that point is buffer the trail can no longer take. Until then the account is a ratchet, which is why its early weeks deserve the smallest size you are willing to trade. Once the trail stops, a losing day costs you profit rather than account.
On the live-equity option, take profit you intend to keep, because an open peak you give back is permanent. On the end-of-day option, intraday swings do not move the line, but the daily loss limit does stop you, so the habit to build there is respecting a number rather than managing a peak.
The daily loss limit does not exist on this option, and the trading day rolls at 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago — the futures session boundary, not local midnight. With no daily limit, set your own stop before the session and treat it as though the firm enforced it.
Consistency, minimum days and the split
Edgekeeper models no consistency cap here, but that is an absence of evidence rather than a confirmed rule: Bulenox does not state a Master-account consistency rule anywhere we could read it, and some of its other account types carry one. Check your own plan before relying on a single big day.
There is no minimum number of trading days, either to qualify or before a payout. Any day with a trade on it counts, whatever the result. The split is tiered — the first part of your profit is paid in full and the rest at a lower share — so it has no single figure to show here; your plan page states the tiers.
What most often ends a Bulenox account
- Round-tripping an open winner. On the live-equity option this raises the floor and pays nothing.
- No self-imposed daily stop. With no published daily limit on this option, a bad session has nothing to stop it but your own judgment.
- Trading the wrong option’s habits. Holding through swings is survivable on the end-of-day option and expensive on this one. Know which one you bought.
Tracking a Bulenox account
The reason these rules are worth reading closely is that none of them are checked by your platform. Your broker shows you a balance; the firm is watching a floor and a share of profit that your balance alone does not tell you about. Edgekeeper loads this rule set onto an account and does the arithmetic on every trade you log: where the drawdown floor currently sits, how many qualifying days you have, and whether one big day has put the consistency rule between you and a payout.
It also warns you before you write the trade, not after. The point is not to be a scoreboard — it is to be the thing that says "this trade takes you inside the last third of your remaining drawdown" while you can still decide something about it.
Prop firms revise their rules regularly, and they differ by plan size, by phase and sometimes by promotion. Everything above is the rule set Edgekeeper loads for Bulenox, checked against the firm's own published rules on the date at the top of this page — but Bulenox's own page is the authority, and every field is editable on your account, so if your plan differs you can change it and the app will judge you by your numbers rather than these.
Bulenox rules: common questions
How does the Bulenox trailing drawdown work?
It depends on the option you bought. On the Option 1 (trailing drawdown), the floor trails your live equity, open profit included, so an open peak raises it even if the trade gives it back. The floor stops rising once it reaches $100 above your starting balance, and everything above that point is buffer the trail can no longer take. The other option trails your end-of-day balance instead.
Does Bulenox have a consistency rule?
None is modeled here, but none is confirmed either: we could not find a Master-account consistency rule stated in readable form. Check your own plan.
What is the Bulenox daily loss limit?
There is none on the Option 1 (trailing drawdown). The end-of-day option carries one for the life of the account, set by plan size.
How many trading days does Bulenox require?
None — there is no minimum to qualify and none before a payout.
When does the Bulenox trading day reset?
At 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago, the futures session boundary rather than local midnight — so a late-evening trade generally belongs to the next trading day.
Track a Bulenox account in Edgekeeper — free
These are the exact rules Edgekeeper loads. Create the account and every trade you log updates your daily loss room, your live drawdown floor, your qualifying days and your payout eligibility — and warns you before a trade takes you past a limit. One prop account is free, forever, no card.
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