What is Apex Trader Funding's stop-loss required rule?

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Apex Trader Funding: Stop-loss required

ConditionalPayout deniedVerifiedUpdated Jun 5, 2026

All trades must carry a pending or mental stop-loss and a defined risk plan. You cannot use the full account threshold as a stop-loss to absorb a big loss; a 2026 update pushes toward a hard stop on every active trade so one event can't blow the auto-liquidate threshold.

The gotcha

Riding a loser down to the drawdown line ('threshold as stop-loss') is explicitly prohibited and a payout-killer.

The numbers

stopLoss	REQUIRED
thresholdAsStop	FORBIDDEN

Source: support — official page . Confidence: verified.

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