Static drawdown sets your maximum loss limit at a fixed level based on the starting balance, and that level never moves. On a $100,000 account with a 10% static max loss, the account fails if equity falls to $90,000, whether you are down from day one or have already grown the account to $112,000. Trailing drawdown works differently: the floor rises with your highest balance or equity, so profits tighten the room you have left.
Most firms ranked here use a static maximum loss on the specific challenge shown. The futures entries are less uniform. Earn2Trade’s Trader Career Path has a fixed, static drawdown. Traders Launch’s Premium EOD uses an end-of-day loss limit. My Funded Futures’ BUILDER plan uses EOD trailing drawdown, which is not static at all. If a fixed floor is the reason you are here, the drawdown type attached to each plan matters more than its position in the ranking.
How the ranking is ordered
Entries are sorted by score out of 10, and partner commissions do not affect scores. The top of the list runs from 7.9 (Earn2Trade) down to 7.0 (FXIFY), a narrow spread. A 0.1 gap between neighbors, such as Traders Launch at 7.8 and FundingPips at 7.7, is too small to decide a purchase.
The user rating is a separate figure: an average with the number of reviews behind it, and the two can diverge sharply. Upcomers holds a 7.3 score with a 2.9 user rating from 578 reviews, while My Funded Futures has a 4.9 user rating from 22,823 reviews and a 7.5 score. Review counts range from 72,793 for FundingPips to 82 for Traders Launch, and an average built on a few dozen reviews moves more easily than one built on tens of thousands.
Each rule here belongs to one named challenge and account size. Firms usually sell several programs with different drawdown types, so a firm appearing here does not mean every account it sells has a static floor.
How we checked the firms in this list
We ran these checks on 2026-11-13, connecting from Tallinn, Estonia, in the EU. All 15 brands on this page were looked at the same day. Register lookups are on record for only three of them. Companies House (UK) confirmed Alpha Capital Group Limited under number 13719951 with status Active, incorporated 2 November 2021. Companies House (UK) also confirmed FXIFY Solutions Limited, status Active, incorporated 31 October 2022. For Vault Funder we tried the FSCA search (South Africa) for 51042, but the register could not be searched, so that check was not completed. The remaining 12 brands have no register lookup on record. That includes FundingPips, Earn2Trade and Hola Prime. The official site for Hola Prime could not be read from the EU.
We also followed each site’s main sign-up button as far as the first screen it led to. For 14 of the 15 brands, that button opened a checkout without an account. Examples include “Buy Challenge” at FundingPips and “Start your Evaluation” at Alpha Capital Group. FundedElite was the exception. Its “Get Funded” button led to a sign-in or account page before any payment screen.
Public signals vary widely. On Trustpilot, My Funded Futures (MFFU) showed 4.9 from 22,937 reviews. FundingPips showed 4.4 from a much larger base of 73,691 reviews. Upcomers sat at 2.9 from 585 reviews. Archive history helps with age. The first archive capture for Moneta Funded is 2025-07-13, the most recent on this list. FXIFY’s first capture is 2018-08-06. These checks do not cover trading conditions or payouts, because we did not open accounts, buy challenges or test withdrawals with any of these firms.
Static, trailing and end-of-day drawdown
Three structures appear on prop firm accounts, and the names are not always used consistently.
- Static (fixed). The floor is set once from the initial balance and stays there for the account or phase.
- Trailing (also called dynamic or relative). The floor follows the account’s peak, often peak equity including open profit, at a fixed distance.
- End-of-day (EOD). The limit is checked against end-of-day values instead of every tick. An EOD trailing limit still moves up, but only with closing balances, so an intraday spike in open profit does not lift the floor. Some trailing structures stop moving once the floor reaches the starting balance, and whether they do is a plan-specific term.
A worked example
Assume a hypothetical $100,000 account with a 10% maximum loss, no daily limit in play, and a trader who reaches a $106,000 peak and then gives back some profit.
| Structure | Floor at start | Floor after $106,000 peak | Room left at $104,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Static 10% | $90,000 | $90,000 | $14,000 |
| Trailing 10% of peak | $90,000 | $96,000 | $8,000 |
Under the static rule, every dollar of profit adds a dollar of cushion. Under the trailing rule, the cushion never exceeds $10,000, and a pullback from the peak eats into it directly. If the trailing version measured the peak on intraday equity, an open trade that touched $106,000 and then reversed would still have raised the floor to $96,000. An EOD version would only raise it if the account closed the day at that level.
Balance, equity and daily limits
A static max loss fixes where the floor sits, not what is measured against it. Most rules test the floor against equity, so an open position that dips below it intraday can fail the account even if it would have recovered by the close. Check whether the plan uses equity or closing balance.
The daily loss limit is a second, separate rule. Many entries here pair a static max loss with a daily cap: Alpha Capital Group’s Alpha Pro sets a 4% daily loss against an 8% static max loss. Upcomers’ Classic Phoenix, FundedElite’s Flash Activation and FundingRock’s 2 Step Challenge each set 3% daily against 6% static. With a 3% daily cap and a 6% fixed floor, and assuming each day’s limit is measured from the starting balance with no profits banked, two days that hit the daily limit in full would consume the entire max loss.
How the entries differ
Futures accounts
Three entries are futures plans, and they handle drawdown in three different ways.
Earn2Trade, Trader Career Path ($25K account). The max loss is a fixed, static drawdown, the clearest static match among the futures entries. Payouts are weekly from $100 after five profitable days, with an 80% split.
Traders Launch, Premium EOD ($100K account). Profit targets are $2,000 / $4,000 / $6,000 against max loss figures of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000, measured at end of day. The plan has no minimum trading days and pays out daily.
My Funded Futures, BUILDER ($25K account). The max loss is $1,500 or $2,000, trailing and evaluated at end of day, with a $3,000 profit target. It ranks on its overall score, but a trader who needs static drawdown should treat it as the exception in this group.
Forex, CFD and crypto challenges
The remaining profiled entries are mostly two-step evaluations on $100K accounts, with static max loss figures of 6%, 8% or 10%:
- 10% static: FundingPips (2 Step Standard), Vault Funder (2-Step Challenge), Moneta Funded (Challenge 2-Step).
- 8% static: Alpha Capital Group (Alpha Pro), WSFunded (2 STEP).
- 6% static: Upcomers (Classic Phoenix), FundedElite (Flash Activation), FundingRock (2 Step Challenge).
A wider static floor does not by itself make a challenge easier. It has to be weighed against the profit target and the daily cap. Vault Funder pairs its 10% max loss with a 10% / 5% target and a five-day minimum per phase. FundingPips pairs the same 10% max loss with an 8% / 5% target and three minimum days. Upcomers asks for 4% in each of two steps against a 6% floor.
The trading permissions also differ, and they can matter as much as the drawdown. Alpha Pro does not allow weekend holding and restricts news trading. Upcomers, FundedElite and FundingRock allow both news trading and weekend holding. WSFunded allows weekend holding but restricts news trading and EAs. A swing trader who holds through weekends would fail on the rules of some of these plans regardless of drawdown type.
Reading the target against the drawdown
A useful way to compare challenges is the ratio of profit target to maximum loss: how far you must go up for each dollar you are allowed to go down.
For a hypothetical example, a $3,000 target with a $2,000 drawdown requires $1.50 of profit per dollar of drawdown, while a $1,250 target with a $1,000 drawdown requires $1.25, so the second is more lenient on ratio alone. A 1:1 ratio, as in an 8% target against an 8% static max loss, is more lenient again. Phase 1 of FundingPips’ 2 Step Standard (8% target, 10% max loss) asks for less than a dollar of profit per dollar of drawdown.
The ratio leaves out a few things:
- Absolute dollars. A $2,000 limit allows larger position sizes and more losing trades in a row than a $1,000 limit at the same per-trade risk.
- Daily caps and minimum days. These can end an attempt before the max loss is reached, or force you to keep trading after the target is hit.
How to choose between entries
- Confirm the drawdown type on the exact plan. Check that the challenge and account size you intend to buy carry a static rule, and whether it applies in both the evaluation and the funded stage. Four plans need this check in particular. Traders Launch’s Premium EOD limit is end-of-day, but it is not stated whether it trails or stays fixed, and its $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 figures are not matched to stages or account sizes. FundYourFX’s 2-Step Evaluation sets an 8% max loss with no stated drawdown type. FundingPips’ 2 Step Standard gives its daily loss as “3% 5%” without saying which figure applies to which phase or configuration. Moneta Funded’s “5% / 10%” target does not say which phase is which, so its target-to-drawdown ratio cannot be worked out reliably.
- Size positions from the fixed floor. With a static limit, maximum risk is a known dollar amount from the start, such as $10,000 on a $100,000 account at 10%, with the daily cap limiting any single session.
- Match permissions to your style. News trading, weekend holding and EA rules vary within this list and are set per plan.
- Compare fees at the same account size. Earn2Trade’s and My Funded Futures’ plans here are $25K accounts while most others are $100K, so their fees are not directly comparable.
- Check payout terms. Frequencies range from every 48 hours (My Funded Futures) and daily (Traders Launch) to bi-weekly and 14-day cycles, and some splits carry conditions, such as FundedElite’s lower split during the live phase.