Part 8 · lesson 2 of 4
Your best moment sets a line you can never go back below.
About 7 minutes.
Whose numbers these are
You have not picked a firm yet. So the figures below come from one firm’s published rules. Each one is named and dated where it appears. Pick a firm and the same lesson runs on your own numbers.
One week of a generated account. It peaks on Tuesday and gives it all back by Friday.
Session 7 of 7: 50,000. Showing 7 of 7.
Every value in this series
| Session | Value |
|---|---|
| 1 | 50,000 |
| 2 | 50,180 |
| 3 | 50,430 |
| 4 | 50,240 |
| 5 | 50,110 |
| 6 | 50,020 |
| 7 | 50,000 |
This price path is generated. No market data is used or implied.
Drive the same week at different sizes. The account is checked against the line at every point, not only at the close.
Profit that is still open raises the line. Give it back and the line stays where it got to.
At 2 contracts the account never reaches its line. Its closest approach is $780. A stop 12 ticks away risks $30 on one trade.
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Session by session
| Point | Account | The line | Room left |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 1, best point | $50,540 | $48,540 | $2,000 |
| Session 1, worst point | $49,820 | $48,540 | $1,280 |
| Session 1, close | $50,360 | $48,540 | $1,820 |
| Session 2, best point | $51,040 | $49,040 | $2,000 |
| Session 2, worst point | $50,180 | $49,040 | $1,140 |
| Session 2, close | $50,860 | $49,040 | $1,820 |
| Session 3, best point | $51,040 | $49,040 | $2,000 |
| Session 3, worst point | $50,300 | $49,040 | $1,260 |
| Session 3, close | $50,480 | $49,040 | $1,440 |
| Session 4, best point | $50,660 | $49,040 | $1,620 |
| Session 4, worst point | $50,040 | $49,040 | $1,000 |
| Session 4, close | $50,220 | $49,040 | $1,180 |
| Session 5, best point | $50,400 | $49,040 | $1,360 |
| Session 5, worst point | $49,860 | $49,040 | $820 |
| Session 5, close | $50,040 | $49,040 | $1,000 |
| Session 6, best point | $50,220 | $49,040 | $1,180 |
| Session 6, worst point | $49,820 | $49,040 | $780 |
| Session 6, close | $50,000 | $49,040 | $960 |
The price path is generated. A micro contract is one-tenth the size of a mini, so the same number of ticks costs a tenth as much: on MES one tick is $1.25, against $12.50 on ES.
The floor
The balance your account may not go below. Go below it and the account closes.
Every firm has a word for this and they are all the same animal: the balance the account may not go below. Your firm’s word is above; the plain reading is beside it. You will meet the firm’s word on your own dashboard and on the page where you pay, so it is worth recognising rather than translating.This one comes back: Where is the floor measured down from — what the account is worth now, or the most it has ever been worth?
How many losing trades fit in the room you have
With $150 at risk each time, the account can be wrong 13 times in a row before it runs out of room. At $300 it is 6.
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Mark the highest point, the point where the room ran out, and where a stop belongs.
Nothing marked yet. 3 points to find.
- The highest point — not marked yet.
- Where the room ran out — not marked yet.
- Where a stop belongs — not marked yet.
The same arithmetic, one step at a time
Highest point reached: $50,430. What the account is worth now: $50,110.
- Start from the highest point the account has reached, and take away the room the firm allows: $2,000 The account closes if the balance falls $2,000 below the highest point it has ever reached.Apex Trader Funding $50K evaluation, floor moves on every new high — published rules read 2026-07-14, spec 1.2.0 That is where the line sits. $48,430
- Now take the line away from what the account is worth today. That is the room left. $1,680
- At two contracts, how many points of price moving against you does that room buy?
Later in the course these steps arrive with more of the working removed, and you write it.
Hold the line through Wednesday
Finish the session with the account still above its line.
- One contract
- A stop on every entry
- Three entries at most
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The session is graded on the decisions made against the rules in force, not on what it made or lost.
- How the decision graded
- 86
- What the session did
- −$45
A sound decision that lost money. The two come apart constantly, which is why only the left-hand number is graded.
Simulated and historical performance does not represent actual trading. Grading applies to simulated sessions and rule compliance.
| You said | Matched the rule |
|---|---|
| 50% sure | 52% of the time |
| 60% sure | 61% of the time |
| 70% sure | 68% of the time |
| 80% sure | 74% of the time |
| 90% sure | 71% of the time |
From 84 of your own answers · as of 2026-07-30
The line, mixed in with the three rules people confuse it with
Finishing this closes the part. It opens nothing, because nothing is closed. Every lesson, every later part and the certification session are already open to you.