NEXT-GENERATION PROP TRADING

Trade our capital.
Keep up to 90% of the profits.

Apex500 funds skilled traders up to $200,000 in buying power. One evaluation, transparent rules, and a real-time dashboard that shows you exactly where you stand — every second the market is open.

Powered by TradeLocker · No hidden fees · Bi-weekly payouts
apex500.com/app
Apex500 Trading Area dashboard
$4.2M+
Paid to Traders
6,800+
Funded Accounts
92
Countries
< 24h
Avg. Payout Time
The Process

From sign-up to funded in four steps

No hidden phases, no surprise rules — the same profit target and drawdown limits you see in the challenge card are what the risk engine enforces, live.

1

Choose your challenge

Pick an account size from $10K to $200K and a plan that fits how you trade.

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2

Pass the evaluation

Hit the profit target across two phases while staying inside daily and max drawdown limits.

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3

Get funded

Trade a live Apex500 funded account on the same TradeLocker platform you evaluated on.

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4

Trade & get paid

Keep up to 90% of the profits you generate, with payouts on a bi-weekly cycle.

Challenges

Choose your challenge

Every plan shares the same rule structure enforced by our risk engine: 10% Phase 1 target, 5% Phase 2 target, 5% daily drawdown, 10% max drawdown.

10K Challenge
$79 one-time
  • Profit target 10% / 5%
  • Daily drawdown 5%
  • Max drawdown 10%
  • Profit split up to 90%
Start Challenge
25K Challenge
$149 one-time
  • Profit target 10% / 5%
  • Daily drawdown 5%
  • Max drawdown 10%
  • Profit split up to 90%
Start Challenge
100K Challenge
$449 one-time
  • Profit target 10% / 5%
  • Daily drawdown 5%
  • Max drawdown 10%
  • Profit split up to 90%
Start Challenge
200K Challenge
$799 one-time
  • Profit target 10% / 5%
  • Daily drawdown 5%
  • Max drawdown 10%
  • Profit split up to 90%
Start Challenge
Why Apex500

Built for serious traders

Every feature ties directly into the risk engine running behind your account — nothing here is just for show.

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Real-time risk dashboard

Profit target, daily drawdown, and max drawdown update live — the same numbers the risk engine uses to evaluate you.

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TradeLocker integration

Trade on a fast, familiar multi-asset platform — FX, indices, metals, and crypto from one account.

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Instant violation detection

Breaches are caught the moment they happen, not at end of day — full transparency, no surprises.

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Static or trailing drawdown

Choose the drawdown style that matches how you trade, phase by phase.

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Bi-weekly payouts

Funded traders are paid on a predictable cycle, with profit splits up to 90%.

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Full trade history

Every position, open or closed, synced from TradeLocker and available to you and support.

Apex500 backoffice preview
Profit Target Progress
+4.6%
The Platform

See your progress in real time

No end-of-day reports, no guessing. Your Trading Area mirrors exactly what our risk engine sees — balance, equity, drawdown usage, and distance to target, refreshed continuously.

Live equity curve

Every balance and equity update, charted as it happens.

Color-coded risk gauges

Daily and max drawdown bars shift from cyan to amber to red as limits approach.

Open positions & history

Every trade, synced directly from TradeLocker on every poll cycle.

Explore the Trading Area →
Funded Traders

Traders funded by Apex500

Illustrative profiles from our platform's demo environment.

"The daily drawdown gauge changed how I manage risk — I can see exactly how much room I have left before I even place a trade."
AO
Amara Okafor
Phase 1 Candidate
"Passed Phase 2 in twelve trading days. The rules were identical to what was advertised — nothing hidden, nothing that changed mid-challenge."
LF
Leon Fischer
Phase 2 Candidate
"Funded and scaling for four months now. Payouts have landed on schedule every single cycle."
SM
Sofia Mendes
Funded Trader
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is a prop trading challenge? ▾

An evaluation where you trade a simulated account against a profit target and drawdown limits. Pass both phases and we fund you with real capital to trade live.

When does my daily drawdown reset? ▾

At the start of each new trading day on the server — your day-start equity becomes the new baseline automatically, no action needed.

Static or trailing drawdown — what's the difference? ▾

Static measures drawdown against your starting balance. Trailing measures it against your highest-ever equity (high-water mark). Your plan specifies which applies.

Which trading platform do I use? ▾

TradeLocker — a fast, multi-asset platform covering FX, indices, metals, and crypto, available on web and mobile.

How often are funded traders paid? ▾

On a bi-weekly cycle, with profit splits of up to 90% in the trader's favor.

Technology & licensing

License the platform behind Apex500

The evaluation engine, risk engine, compliance chain and back office that run Apex500 are available to other firms under their own brand, their own licence and their own trading venue.

Compliance is in the architecture

Thirteen invariants the codebase is written against — one writer of account status, append-only ledgers, the server computes the price.

Your venue stays yours

Accounts execute on your own infrastructure under your own licence. We never hold your venue credentials.

The royalty scales with you

Charged on programme revenue, so the cost tracks the line it created rather than running ahead of it.

Talk to us about licensing →
What the licence covers
Evaluation programmes1-, 2- and 3-phase
Risk engineTrailing drawdown & daily loss
ComplianceKYC · AML · EDD · retention
MoneyCheckout · affiliates · payouts
Back office4 roles · 13 permissions
Surfaces29 screens, your brand
Design-partner stage. The licensing programme is open to a small number of launch partners on dated milestones written into the agreement. Current platform status is set out below.
What the licence includes

Six systems, one platform

A funded-trader programme is not one product. It is six, and each of them has to be right.

Evaluation

1-, 2- and 3-phase programmes. Plan catalogue, account sizes, phase progression and the rules each plan carries.

Risk engine

Profit target, daily and overall drawdown, trailing limits evaluated against equity on every poll cycle.

Trading feed

Polls your venue each cycle for balance, equity, open positions and closed trades. Venue-agnostic by design.

Compliance

KYC and AML chain, enhanced due diligence gate, PEP and source-of-funds, consent and erasure, retention policy.

Money

Checkout, promotions, affiliate and referral, payout request and approval — every step on an append-only ledger.

Back office

Four roles, thirteen permissions, three access realms. Every action attributed to a session, never to a request body.

How it is built

Rules the software enforces on itself

They exist because this software handles client money and compliance records, where a quiet inconsistency is worse than an outage.

Account status has exactly one writer

The risk engine decides a breach. No feed, no venue and no operator may set status — which is what keeps the same rules applying to every trader.

The ledgers are append-only

Audit entries, redemptions, affiliate events and referral overrides are never edited or deleted.

The server computes the price

What a trader pays is derived server-side at order creation and locked there — not recomputed later, and never taken from the client.

The actor comes from the session

Never from the request body. Every recorded action is attributable to a real authenticated operator.

Nothing derived is stored, except money

Figures are computed from their source, so a stale copy cannot quietly contradict the record it came from.

Every route is in a realm

Public, trader or administrative — declared in one place and reviewable in one place, so an unguarded route is visible rather than hidden.

The full set of thirteen is supplied with the licence, together with the engineering log that records where each rule came from.

Your licence, your venue

We are a software vendor, not a counterparty

Your entity contracts with your clients

Traders contract with you. We hold no client relationship, no client money and no regulatory status in your programme.

Accounts execute on your infrastructure

The platform reads and acts on your trading venue. Where a connector needs credentials, they stay in your environment — we never hold them.

Venue-agnostic by design

Accounts carry their platform as an attribute and each venue is an adapter behind one interface. Adding a venue does not touch the risk engine.

One condition we will ask you to confirm

That your agreement with your trading venue permits proprietary-trading-firm activity, in writing. A broker licence is necessary and not sufficient — firms holding both have been caught out by this.

Supported venues
TradeLockerAvailable
MetaTrader 5On your licence
TradingViewRoadmap
DXtrade · cTrader · Match-TraderOn request
MetaTrader 5 runs against your own server, operated by your licensed entity, subject to your agreement with MetaQuotes permitting proprietary-trading-firm activity. We do not resell or sublicense MetaTrader.
Commercial model

A royalty, not a seat licence

Indicative. Final terms depend on venue, tenancy model and volume, and are set in the licence agreement.

Royalty

of programme revenue

Charged on the revenue your programme generates, so the cost tracks the line it created rather than running ahead of it.

Setup

one-off

Provisioning, brand configuration, venue connection and launch support for your operations team.

Nil

build cost

No engineering team, no platform programme, no multi-year delivery risk carried on your balance sheet.

Included in the licence

  • Platform, updates and security patches
  • Brand configuration and your domain
  • Support for your operations team

Your responsibility

  • Trading venue and regulatory licence
  • Client relationships and client funds
  • Compliance, and your own policy thresholds

Charged separately

  • Bespoke feature development
  • Additional venue integrations
  • Migration from an existing platform
Where the platform is today

Stated plainly

A licensing conversation is worth having only on accurate information. This is why the programme opens to a small number of partners first.

CapabilityStatusNote
Evaluation, risk, compliance and back officeBuilt29 screens, 44 route groups, 99 automated checks written
TradeLocker venue integrationBuiltPolling, snapshots and rule evaluation
First full build and test runIn progressScheduled; the platform has not yet been run end to end
Persistence across restartsIn buildRequired before any licensee data is held
Multi-tenant isolationIn buildRequired before the second licensee
MetaTrader 5 adapterScopedBuildable against a licensee\u2019s own server

Design-partner stage. Launch partners are onboarded as these complete, on dated milestones written into the licence agreement. We would rather tell you this here than in a technical due diligence.

How it works

From first conversation to live

Elapsed time depends far more on your venue and compliance provider than on the platform.

1

Scope

Your entity structure, your venue, your client base, and what success looks like in twelve months.

2

Venue confirmation

Written confirmation that your venue agreement permits proprietary-trading-firm activity. Nothing is scoped before this.

3

Agreement

Tenancy model, commercial terms and dated delivery milestones, written into the licence.

4

Launch

Brand configuration, venue connection, compliance setup, a full rehearsal by your team, then live.

Talk to us about licensing

Tell us your entity structure, your trading venue and your jurisdiction, and we will send the licensing pack and indicative terms.

Licensing enquiries · Apex Innovations LTD · Innovation One, DIFC, Dubai

Ready to trade with Apex500 capital?

Pick a challenge size, pass two phases, get funded.