Prop firms with an end-of-day trailing drawdown

An end-of-day trailing drawdown recalculates your maximum loss floor against the closing balance and leaves it there until the next close. An intraday trail follows your highest unrealised equity tick by tick. The practical difference is enormous: on an intraday trail, a trade that runs $800 in your favour and closes flat has permanently cost you $800 of room, without a losing trade ever being booked.

That single mechanic accounts for a large share of breaches that traders describe as unfair. The trade was fine. The floor moved underneath it.

Static is the most forgiving model — the floor never moves at all — but it is less common, particularly on larger futures accounts. End-of-day trailing is the mainstream compromise and covers most of the futures accounts tracked here. If you scale in and out during the session, EOD gives you nearly all the benefit of static; if you hold winners for days, the difference narrows further.

Static-only accounts are listed separately if you want the strictest filter.

Many firms stop the trail once your balance reaches the starting balance plus the drawdown amount, which locks the floor at breakeven and makes the account materially safer from that point. Others trail indefinitely. The stop point is often buried in the FAQ rather than the plan page, and it changes the risk profile enough to be worth finding before you buy.