Apex Trader Funding - The Joke That’s Not Funny Anymore
I don’t recommend Apex. Never have, never will… but now I REALLY don’t!
Nonstop bad.
Blaming their traders and refusing to do the right thing
On June 12th, 2025, there was a connection issue across the top prop firms that caused MAJOR losses for traders (entire accounts wiped). MyFundedFutures reversed the losses of everyone whose accounts were negatively affected (but not the ones who finished positive!), yet Apex didn’t do anything. It’s exactly what they did in 2024 when traders experienced the worst connection issues that firms had ever seen. In fact, Apex actually BLAMED the traders for this!
Forcing traders to VLOG themselves while trading just to get a payout!
Every few months for the past 2 years or so, Apex has sent out hundreds (thousands?) of emails forcing traders who requested payouts to vlog themselves trading and FAR more just to get their payouts. Wtf is even that? MFFU just introduced a system that automatically approves and pays out most requests in less than a second. Do not accept Apex’s unbelievably low standards for a prop firm.
The old Apex is gone
Apex has done several complete overhauls of their policies to make payouts far more difficult. They used to be one of the easiest firms, and now there’s no reason to use them. Their only redeemable quality is trading up to 20 accounts at the same time, and that’s only a smart idea for maybe 1 out of every 1000 traders (the most elite of the elite).
Funded accounts have consistency rules, intraday max drawdown rules per trade, an intraday trailing drawdown, AND a buffer requirement for payouts. You have to make a 100% return just to get to this buffer, and then you have to make more after that for your payout.
The Apex profitable trader ban
In May of 2025, Apex banned an enormous amount of their profitable traders.
Psychological warfare
Posting the video here will put me in legal trouble, but you can search and find it. The CEO (or whatever he is) was recorded in a private Zoom call talking about how they use emails and other tactics on traders who are doing well to try and mess them up. Sounds like a joke, but it’s not, lol. I won’t help you find it, but it’s out there.
Ever heard of the Discord situation?
They treat their traders so poorly that my video in June of 2024 made them shut down their entire Discord server. Video here. As of 9/3/25, you STILL are unable to send any messages on that server, and there seems to be no plans to open it back up to the public. Ask yourself why the relationship between a firm and its traders is so unbelievably poor that their Discord server was shut down. You don’t see that at MFFU, Topstep, or any of the other bigger firms.
Some more information and proof
The payout-denial problem (plus way more, which is below this)
Apex approves payouts most of the time, but, out of all the top firms, they are without a doubt the most controversial and unreliable. They pay out more than any other firm, and they also deny payouts more than any other top firm. There’s probably a 98% chance that you get your payout approved if you follow all of the payout rules (which again are far more complicated, restrictive, and difficult compared to many firms). But, to the 2% who get denied, they certainly wish that they had just used a different firm.
I have personally been involved in bringing attention to traders who were denied extremely large amounts of money in order to get Apex to pay them ($800,000 just between two of the top ones!)
2 people on my Prop Firm Center Discord have been denied payouts by Apex just while I was creating this page. Want to know Apex’s reason for denying the payout they rightfully earned? They called it “Account Investigation.” WHAT??!?
This is a picture of an email that an enormous amount of Apex traders received after being denied payouts. They were able to get their payouts after complying with these directions, but this is still insane.
This tactic is just one tool used by Apex to delay rightfully earned payouts to traders.
The Apex Profitable Trader Ban of 2025
In May, Apex banned a huge amount of their traders who were getting payouts.
On top of that, Apex has found new ways to keep you from getting your payouts, banning users for any reason they can come up with, and now forcing traders to do even more work to get their payouts. The screenshot I’ve included here is from the new wave of payout denials, linked below.
https://x.com/CoachDBA/status/1928241251142287847
Here’s a quote from a member of my Prop Firm Discord server: “I got the ban email yesterday morning, saying they're monitoring me for a live account. My last interaction with them was when they denied my payouts last May for "scheming and scamming." So which is it? I'm a cheater or I'm good enough for live?”
Just use a better firm.
It’s 2025. There are so many good options out there. Stop using a firm where you have to wonder if you’ll get your payout. And, if there’s a connection or platform issue, would you rather use a firm that will fix it or use one that will blame you? Plus, Apex’s difficulty on getting payouts is FAR higher than other firms. It’s not even close. So, you decide if paying a little less for the initial evaluation is worth all of these problems.