MyFundedFutures rules explained: end-of-day trailing and the payout buffer
MyFundedFutures uses the gentlest of the trailing drawdown variants, and on its Pro plan it drops the daily loss limit too. The rule that actually decides when you get paid is quieter: a profit buffer that has to be banked before the first withdrawal.
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 unrealized 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 favor 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 unrealized, 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 keeps trailing for as long as the account is open — profit permanently raises it, and it never freezes. On the 50K Pro plan that changes at the first payout: from then on the line stops trailing and sits just above your starting balance for good. Until you have been paid once, every green close raises the floor, which makes the first payout the real milestone of the account, more than any profit target. Edgekeeper keeps the floor trailing, the stricter reading; after your first payout, edit the account to fix it in place.
The daily loss limit does not exist on this rule set, and the trading day rolls at 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago.
No daily limit, so the evaluation is short and the floor is everything
The evaluation needs at least 2 trading days. Any day with a trade on it counts, whatever the result. With no daily loss limit, nothing ends a bad session except the trailing floor itself, and touching that does not end your day, it ends the account. Set your own daily stop before the session starts and treat it as though the firm enforced it.
The 50% rule
In the evaluation, no single day may account for more than 50% of total profit. That is why a two-day pass is possible but a one-day pass is not: one enormous session cannot carry the account alone. Once you are sim-funded on this plan, the cap no longer applies.
Payouts, the buffer and the split
Payouts open 14 calendar days after your first trade, not after a count of trading days, at a 80/20 split, and only once $2,100 of profit is banked as a buffer. The buffer is the part that surprises people: the account can be comfortably green on day 15 and still have nothing to withdraw.
What most often ends a MyFundedFutures account
- No self-imposed daily stop. Without a published daily limit, a bad session runs until you stop it or the floor does.
- 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.
- Sizing up to clear the buffer faster. The buffer is a profit target in disguise, and the floor is still trailing while you chase it.
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 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 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 keeps trailing for as long as the account is open — profit permanently raises it, and it never freezes.
Does MyFundedFutures have a daily loss limit?
Not on the 50K Pro plan in evaluation or sim-funded. Live accounts carry different terms.
Is there a consistency rule at MyFundedFutures?
Yes — no single day may be worth more than 50% of total profit on this rule set.
How long before a payout, and what is the split?
Payouts open 14 calendar days after your first trade, once $2,100 of buffer is banked, at a 80/20 split.
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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