Apex Trader FundingRestricted Countries

Apex Trader Funding is a futures-only simulated funding firm run from Austin, Texas by founder Darrell Martin, selling evaluations across three vendors (Rithmic, Tradovate, WealthCharts) and converting passes into Performance Accounts. Its firm-level posture is permissive on strategy and strict on identity and account hygiene: news trading, scalping and same-direction averaging are allowed, but automation, hedging, HFT and trade copying with other traders are not, every account must be flat by 4:59 PM ET, and a rolling 30-day activity floor permanently closes an idle Performance Account. Capacity is large — 20 funded accounts across an entire household and uncapped evaluations — while the commercial terms are unforgiving: card-only payment, no refunds of any kind, and an 87-entry restricted-country list. Payouts are documented end to end (up to 2 business days to review, 3–4 to send, 5–11 in total), by ACH in the US and through a third-party payment platform elsewhere. Above the simulated program sits an invitation-only live prop desk that closes every simulated account the moment a trader is selected.