FundedNext rules explained: which Stellar plan you are actually on
The most expensive mistake at FundedNext is not a trade. It is reading the rules for one Stellar plan and trading another: the drawdown and daily limits differ across 1-Step, 2-Step and Lite, and the account does not warn you that you memorized the wrong pair.
Prop firms change their terms, and rules differ by plan size, phase and promotion. FundedNext’s own rules page is authoritative — always check it against the plan you hold before you trade.
FundedNext 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.
This page carries the Stellar 2-Step rule set: a maximum loss of 10% and a daily limit of 5%. The floor a fixed floor that never moves. The floor is set once and never moves, so every dollar of profit is a dollar of extra room. If you hold a different Stellar plan, the shape of the rules is the same and both numbers are not — edit them on the account and the app will judge you by yours.
That warning is doing real work. Traders move between plans as they scale, carry the old figures in their head, and size to a limit that belonged to the last account. The mechanic is identical, which is exactly what makes the substitution invisible.
A static floor is a cushion you can spend
The floor is set once and never moves, so every dollar of profit is a dollar of extra room. Because the floor does not follow you upward, early profit is permanent room: whatever you are up, the corridor you trade inside is that much wider for as long as you hold the account. The failure this design invites is treating that widened corridor as a license to size up, which converts a structural advantage back into an ordinary account in a single session.
The daily limit and the server-midnight reset
The daily loss limit is 5% of the starting balance, so its dollar size never changes with the account, and Edgekeeper counts open positions against it, the stricter reading. The day rolls at midnight on the firm's server clock, which runs two hours ahead of London time in winter and three in summer — the same instant as 5:00 p.m. America/New_York.
For a trader in the Americas that is late afternoon, after the stock market has closed but while futures and currencies are still trading. A trade placed after it belongs to a new day with a fresh allowance, and a trade placed an hour before it still spends the old one. Convert the reset into your own timezone once and write it down.
Days and the split
5 separate trading days per phase on the Stellar 2-Step. Any day with a trade on it counts, whatever the result. The payout terms depend on the reward option you bought — a fixed cycle, a short cycle that needs profitable days, or on-demand with its own consistency rule — so there is no single split to show here.
What most often ends a FundedNext account
- Trading one Stellar plan by another plan’s numbers. The rules have the same shape and different values, which is the hardest kind of difference to notice.
- Spending the static cushion. A fixed floor rewards banking profit and punishes sizing up into it.
- Getting the reset hour wrong. A late-afternoon day change is easy to trade through without noticing which allowance you are spending.
Tracking a FundedNext 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, a daily limit 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: how much daily loss room is left right now, 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 daily loss" 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 FundedNext, checked against the firm's own published rules on the date at the top of this page — but FundedNext'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.
FundedNext rules: common questions
What is the FundedNext Stellar maximum drawdown?
10% on the Stellar 2-Step rule set, held as a floor that a fixed floor that never moves. The other Stellar plans use the same mechanic with different values, so check which one you hold.
What is the FundedNext daily drawdown limit?
5% of the starting balance on this rule set, so the dollar figure stays the same as the account grows. Edgekeeper counts open positions against it, the stricter reading.
When does the FundedNext trading day reset?
At midnight server time, which is 5:00 p.m. America/New_York — late afternoon for traders in the Americas.
How many trading days does FundedNext require?
5 separate trading days per phase on the Stellar 2-Step. Any day with a trade on it counts, whatever the result.
Track a FundedNext 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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