MyFundedFutures rules explained: end-of-day trailing and the qualifying day
MyFundedFutures uses the gentlest of the trailing drawdown variants and one of the strictest definitions of a trading day. Both facts push in the same direction: the account rewards a series of ordinary sessions and punishes the trader looking for one big one.
Prop firms change their terms, and rules differ by plan size, phase and promotion. MyFundedFutures’s own rules page is authoritative — always check it against the plan you hold before you trade.
MyFundedFutures 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.
The defining rule here is the basis of the drawdown: the floor trails your end-of-day balance. That is a meaningfully different account to trade than one whose floor follows live equity, and the difference is worth understanding before you size a single trade.
End-of-day trailing, and why it is kinder
An end-of-day trailing floor only moves when a day closes. Intraday spikes — the unrealised high your trade printed at 10:42 before it came back — do not ratchet the line up. Only what you actually finished the day with does. In practice this means a trade that runs a long way in your favour and gives it back costs you the profit, but not your buffer, which is exactly the cost an intraday-trailing account also charges you.
Take a hypothetical account with a $2,000 trailing floor. You run +$1,200 unrealised, give it back and close flat. On an intraday-trailing account the floor has climbed $1,200 and your remaining room is $800. On an end-of-day trailing account the day closed flat, so the floor did not move and your room is still $2,000. Same trading, two very different accounts — which is why "trailing drawdown" alone tells you almost nothing until you know what it trails.
The floor stops rising once it reaches your starting balance, and everything you make above that is buffer you cannot lose back to the trail. That is the second half of the design: profit raises the line only until it reaches the lock, after which every dollar you keep is a dollar of permanent cushion. Getting to the lock is therefore the real first milestone of the account, more than any profit target.
The daily loss limit is set by plan size rather than as a fixed percentage, so read it off your own account and enter it when you set the account up, and the trading day rolls at 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago.
A day only counts if it earns
A day counts only if it books at least $200 in profit — a flat day, a losing day and a scratch day all count for nothing. This is the rule most traders discover late, usually while counting days toward a payout and finding they have fewer than they thought. It exists to prevent the obvious workaround — clicking one contract in and out to tick a box — and it changes the shape of an evaluation: you need 8 genuinely productive sessions, not 8 appearances.
The behavioural effect is worth naming, because it cuts both ways. It rewards showing up and trading normally. It also tempts a trader sitting at a small profit late in a session to force one more trade to clear the bar — which is the same impulse that ends accounts, wearing a rule as an excuse. If the day does not offer your setup, the honest answer is that the day does not count.
The 40% rule
No single day may account for more than 40% of total profit. Combined with the qualifying-day rule, the account is quite explicitly asking for a spread of ordinary results rather than one outstanding session — and the two rules interact, since a huge day both raises the total you must spread and is itself the day that breaks the ratio.
Payouts and the split
8 qualifying days before a payout can be requested, at a 90/10 split. Because a day only counts when it clears the profit bar, the calendar distance to a payout is usually longer than the day count suggests — a fortnight of trading is not a fortnight of qualifying days.
What most often ends a MyFundedFutures account
- Forcing a trade to make the day count. The qualifying-day rule creates a deadline that the market has not agreed to.
- Treating an end-of-day trail as no trail. It is gentler than an intraday trail, not absent. A run of green closes moves the floor up permanently, and a later drawdown is measured from there.
- One outsized day. It pulls against the consistency rule and usually against the sizing that survived the previous nine sessions.
Tracking a MyFundedFutures 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 MyFundedFutures, checked against the firm's own published rules on the date at the top of this page — but MyFundedFutures'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.
MyFundedFutures rules: common questions
How does the MyFundedFutures drawdown work?
The floor trails your end-of-day balance, so intraday spikes do not raise it — only what you close the day with does. The floor stops rising once it reaches your starting balance, and everything you make above that is buffer you cannot lose back to the trail.
What counts as a trading day at MyFundedFutures?
A day counts only if it books at least $200 in profit — a flat day, a losing day and a scratch day all count for nothing.
Is there a consistency rule at MyFundedFutures?
Yes — no single day may be worth more than 40% of total profit on this rule set.
How many days before a payout, and what is the split?
8 qualifying days at a 90/10 split. A day counts only if it books at least $200 in profit — a flat day, a losing day and a scratch day all count for nothing.
When does the MyFundedFutures trading day reset?
At 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago, which is also the moment the end-of-day trailing floor can move.
Track a MyFundedFutures 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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