How to Trade Supply & Demand on Apex Trader Funding
Supply & Demand on Apex Trader Funding is rated possible with adaptation. There is 1 rule conflict to be aware of, including 1 high-severity issue. Apex Trader Funding offers 2 rules that actively support this strategy. Recommended timeframes: 1H.
Identifies zones where price previously made strong moves away from, indicating unfilled institutional orders. Traders wait for price to return to these zones and enter with tight stop losses. Works across all timeframes.
Supply & Demand typically requires holding positions overnight, but Apex Trader Funding requires all positions to be flattened before market close. You must close all trades by session end, which limits multi-day setups.
Apex Trader Funding has no daily loss limit during evaluation. For supply & demand, this means you can survive a rough session without breaching a daily cap -- only the overall drawdown matters.
Apex Trader Funding offers futures markets, which align well with Supply & Demand's typical instruments.
Since Apex Trader Funding requires same-day closes, use shorter timeframes for entries and exits. Higher timeframes can still inform directional bias.
For supply & demand on Apex Trader Funding, risk 0.5-1% per trade. On a $150,000 account, that is $750-$1,500 per trade. With the overall drawdown limit, you can take 2-4 setups per day without excessive risk.
- Forgetting to close positions before market close. Supply & Demand setups often signal late in the session, tempting traders to hold overnight. On Apex Trader Funding, this is an instant violation.
- Not accounting for trailing drawdown ratcheting up. After a profitable supply & demand session, the floor has moved up permanently. Trading the next day with the same risk parameters as before ignores the reduced cushion.
- Violating the consistency rule ("No single day > 30% of total profit"). A single large supply & demand winner on a high-volatility day can trigger this rule, even though the trade was well-managed.
- Oversizing positions to hit the profit target faster. Supply & Demand has defined risk parameters -- increasing size beyond your plan to speed up the evaluation is the fastest path to blowing the account.
- Over-trading on slow market days. When supply & demand setups are not presenting clearly, forcing trades leads to death by a thousand cuts against the daily loss limit.
| evaluation | funded | |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Loss | None | None |
| DD Type | Trailing Intraday | Trailing Intraday |
| Overnight | No | No |
| News | restricted | restricted |
| Weekend | No | No |
| Consistency | No single day > 30% of total profit | No single day > 30% of total profit |