Static drawdown prop firms: which ones offer it in 2026

A static drawdown prop firm sets your maximum loss from the starting balance and never moves it, even when the account is in profit: on a 50K account with a $2,500 static drawdown, the floor stays at $47,500 for good, and every gain adds to your cushion. With a trailing drawdown, the floor follows your best balance up and the cushion stays the same. As of November 2026, firms offering static drawdown include FTMO (2-Step), FundedNext (Stellar 2-Step), E8 Markets (E8 Pro), MyFundedFutures (Studio plans) and Emerge Profit, which publishes this article and is one of the firms compared. Below you’ll see how each type is calculated, a worked example with numbers and which firms offer it according to their official websites.

Static, intraday trailing and EOD drawdown explained

Maximum drawdown is the balance or equity level your account can’t touch. What differs between firms is less the amount than how that level moves. If you need the concept from scratch, start with what drawdown is in trading.

Static (fixed) drawdown

It’s calculated once from the starting balance and never moves. On the FTMO 2-Step, for example, equity can never fall below 90% of the starting balance. On day one it gives you the same room as any other type; the difference shows up once the account is in profit.

End-of-day (EOD) trailing drawdown

The floor is recalculated once a day from the closing balance and never goes down. It’s monitored in real time during the session, but open profits don’t push it up. At Topstep, the floor on the 50K Combine starts at $48,000 and stops rising once it reaches the $50,000 starting balance.

Intraday trailing drawdown

The floor tracks peak equity in real time. If a trade reaches +$900 and comes back to breakeven, the floor has moved up $900 even though you made nothing. It punishes traders who let trades run and then give some back more than any other type.

A detailed EOD vs static comparison, with more scenarios, is in EOD vs static drawdown in 2026.

Worked example: how trailing eats your cushion on a 50K account

Three 50K accounts with the same $2,500 drawdown, one of each type. The trader trades Micro Nasdaq (MNQ, $2 per point) with 5 contracts and a 40-point stop: $400 of risk per trade.

1. Day 1: a trade reaches +$1,500 open and closes at +$1,000. Closing balance: $51,000.
2. Day 2: equity reaches +$1,200 on the day and closes at +$800. Closing balance: $51,800.

Drawdown type	Starting floor	Floor after day 1	Floor after day 2	Room at $51,800	$400 stops it can absorb
Static	$47,500	$47,500	$47,500	$4,300	10
EOD trailing	$47,500	$48,500	$49,300	$2,500	6
Intraday trailing	$47,500	$49,000	$49,700	$2,100	5

You made $1,800 and, with intraday trailing, you have less room than on day one. If the next few days bring a streak of five losses ($2,000), the intraday account sits $100 above its floor, the EOD account $500 and the static account $2,300. That’s the cushion trailing drawdown eats.

When static isn’t better

• If you lose from day one, all three types give you the same room: static only helps after you’ve made money.
• If the static limit is smaller, it can be worse. FTMO 1-Step uses 10% with EOD trailing; the EmergeFX Evaluation 1-Step uses 6% static. At the start, FTMO gives you more room.
• Many trailing drawdowns lock once they reach the starting balance (Topstep, for example). From then on they behave like static, just with a higher floor.
• The daily loss limit still applies: with a static drawdown, one bad session can still close the account if it hits the daily loss limit.

To work out how many contracts your drawdown can support without running out of room in a normal losing streak, use the futures contract calculator based on drawdown.

Prop firms with static drawdown in November 2026

We only include what we could verify on official pages or, when they didn’t load, in reviews dated 2026 (noted where so). Criterion: the maximum drawdown must be fixed from the starting balance from day one.

Firm and product	Market	Static?	Key rules
FTMO 2-Step	Forex and CFDs	Yes	10% static; 5% daily loss; 10% and 5% targets
FTMO 1-Step and Instant	Forex and CFDs	No	10% with end-of-day trailing (1-Step) or intraday trailing (Instant)
FundedNext Stellar 2-Step	Forex and CFDs	Yes	10% static; 5% daily loss; 8% and 5% targets; 5 minimum days
E8 Markets, E8 Pro	Forex, CFDs and crypto	Yes	8% static; 2.5% daily loss; 8% target; only up to 2% profit per day counts
MyFundedFutures, Studio plans	Futures	Yes	$250, $500 or $1,000 static limit; no consistency rule or daily limit
MyFundedFutures, Builder, Rapid and Pro	Futures	No	End-of-day trailing; intraday on the Rapid funded account
Topstep	Futures	No	EOD trailing that locks at the starting balance ($2,000 on 50K)
Apex Trader Funding (accounts from March 2026)	Futures	No	Intraday Trail or EOD Trail (per 2026 reviews; its official site didn’t load)
Take Profit Trader	Futures	No	EOD on the Test; intraday on the PRO account (per a November 2026 review)
Emerge, Futures Instant Funding	Futures	Your choice	EOD or static; $2,500 on the 50K Classic
Emerge, EmergeFX (Evaluation and Instant Funding)	Forex, indices and commodities	Yes	6% (1-Step), 10% (2-Step) or a fixed dollar amount (Instant Funding)

What each one does well

• FTMO 2-Step: 10% static, the widest room in the table, and the fee refunded with the first reward.
• FundedNext Stellar 2-Step: the same 10% static with a lower Phase 1 target (8%).
• E8 Pro: a single phase and rewards you can request daily; the trade-off is a tight daily limit and a cap on how much daily profit counts.
• MyFundedFutures Studio: the only static option we found in futures outside Emerge, though with small limits ($250 to $1,000).

Static drawdown prop firms: futures vs forex

In forex and CFDs, static drawdown is common on 2-step evaluations. In futures it’s rare: the industry uses EOD or intraday trailing almost by default, and the few static accounts tend to have low limits. So if you trade futures and want a fixed floor with a useful amount, your options shrink fast.

A practical rule for choosing: divide the drawdown by your risk per trade. With $2,500 static and $250 of risk, you have 10 stops from day one; with $1,000 static, only 4. A small static limit can be harder than a wide trailing one.

A prop firm without trailing drawdown: Emerge Profit accounts

Emerge Profit offers simulated trading accounts. These are the ones with static drawdown or the option to choose it:

Account	Daily loss limit	Drawdown	Contracts or margin	Price
50K Classic Futures Instant Funding	$1,000	$2,500, EOD or static	3 minis / 30 micros	From $130
50K Classic EmergeFX Instant Funding	$1,000	$2,500 static	1:100 equivalent margin	From $120
100K Classic EmergeFX Instant Funding	$1,850	$3,600 static	1:100 equivalent margin	From $120
EmergeFX Evaluation 1-Step	3%	6% static	1:30 margin	From $68
EmergeFX Evaluation 2-Step	5%	10% static	1:100 margin	From $68

• Futures Instant Funding with static drawdown: no evaluation, no time limit, news trading allowed, on Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TradingView with the license included. The static option is listed on the 50K Classic; for other sizes, check with support.
• EmergeFX Instant Funding: static drawdown on every size, from 5K to 250K, with swing trading and news trading allowed, on cTrader or DXtrade.
• EmergeFX Evaluation: static drawdown and weekend holding allowed on both 1-Step and 2-Step, 5 minimum days, no time limit, positions can be held overnight, and a 100% or 125% fee refund with your first reward.

The Emerge Futures Evaluation uses EOD drawdown, not static, and positions are closed before the end of each session. If price also matters to you, check the total cost in cheapest prop firms 2026. These are simulated accounts and trading involves risk: a static drawdown gives you more room, not guaranteed results.

Static drawdown prop firms: FAQ

Sources

• FTMO – Home page, pricing and trading objectives (accessed November 2026).
• FundedNext – Stellar Challenges (CFDs) (accessed November 2026).
• E8 Markets Help Center – E8 Pro (updated September 23, 2026, accessed November 2026).
• MyFundedFutures – Home page, standard and Studio plans (accessed November 2026).
• Topstep Help Center – What is the Maximum Loss Limit? (accessed November 2026).
• Prop Firm Map – Apex Trader Funding review 2026 (data verified September 2, 2026).
• Prop Trading Vibes – TakeProfitTrader accounts overview (updated November 6, 2026).
• Emerge Profit – Futures Instant Funding and EmergeFX account rules on emergeprofit.com (accessed November 2026).

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