EdgeProp Rules: Drawdown, News Trading, Consistency and Scaling Plan

EdgeProp rules for EdgeCore, EdgeOne and EdgeX, checked October 11, 2026. EdgeProp Trading sells three one-step futures evaluations in five sizes from $50K to $200K. All three share the same profit targets, drawdown amounts and contract limits, and none has a daily loss limit. What separates them is how the trailing drawdown moves, and which extra rules switch on once you are funded: a 40% consistency rule, a half-size scaling plan and a 30% per-trade loss cap. This page sets out every rule from the firm’s own rules pages, help centre and Funded Trader Agreement, with worked numbers and a consistency calculator.

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EdgeProp Rules by Plan: Side-by-Side Tables

All three EdgeProp plans are one-step evaluations. You pass by hitting the profit target without touching the trailing drawdown threshold, and after at least seven trading days. The account sizes and their numbers are the same on every plan.

Evaluation parameters by account size

The target is 6% of the starting balance on every size, but the drawdown shrinks as a share of the account: 5% on the 50K, 4% on the 75K, 3.5% on the 100K and 3% on the 150K and 200K. On the larger accounts the target is two to three times the room you have to lose, so the 50K is the most forgiving size in proportion.

What changes between EdgeCore, EdgeOne and EdgeX

The program you buy is permanent for that account, according to the agreement. Prices differ: on October 11, 2026 EdgeCore was the cheapest plan and EdgeX the dearest. The EdgeProp review lists current prices and fees.

Source: EdgeProp Trading objectives (reviewed October 2, 2026), EdgeCore vs EdgeOne vs EdgeX, Program Types & Payout Rules and Funded Trader Agreement section 3 – checked October 11, 2026.

How the EdgeProp Evaluation Works

1. Buy a plan and size. The help centre describes the evaluation fee as a one-time payment with no monthly subscription. The Terms and the agreement table still describe a 30-day auto-renewing fee. Check what checkout says before you pay.
2. Trade to the target. Reach 6% profit (for example $12,000 on a 200K, so a $212,000 balance) without your equity touching the trailing threshold. There is no deadline.
3. Log seven trading days. A day counts when at least one qualifying trade with genuine market exposure is executed. Days need not be consecutive and there is no minimum number of trades per day. You cannot pass in fewer than seven days even if you hit the target on day two.
4. Pass the funding review. EdgeProp reviews the account before funding; flipping contracts just to register a day is prohibited and can fail the review.
5. Pay the activation fee and sign the agreement. The newest help article (July 22, 2026) lists one-time, non-refundable activation fees of $60 / $75 / $90 / $105 / $120 for 50K to 200K. Older EdgeProp pages quote other amounts, so confirm in the dashboard.
6. Trade the funded Performance Account. Funded rules switch on: Safety Net, half-size scaling (EdgeCore and EdgeOne), the 30% MAE cap and payout gates.

Edge case: hitting the target early. An older help article on the trailing threshold (March 28, 2026) says the evaluation threshold stops trailing once you reach the target. Your account still needs seven trading days to pass, and every rule, including news and the 3:10 PM CT close, keeps applying on the remaining days. Trading small on those days is the low-risk way to finish.

Source: EdgeProp Evaluation Accounts – Rules, Parameters & Funding Process (July 22, 2026), Trailing Threshold Explained (March 28, 2026) and Terms – checked October 11, 2026.

EdgeProp Drawdown Rules: Intraday vs End-of-Day Trailing

EdgeProp has one loss rule at account level: a trailing drawdown threshold. The formula is the same on every plan, threshold = highest equity − drawdown distance, and the distance is fixed by account size. The difference is when “highest equity” is measured.

EdgeCore: intraday trailing

The threshold follows your peak equity tick by tick, including unrealized profit on open trades. If equity touches the threshold at any point in the session, the account fails, even if price recovers minutes later.

That is EdgeProp’s own example. The trader closed the day $500 up and still failed, because the floor had already moved to $52,000 at the peak. Taking partial profits on runners and watching floating P&L are the firm’s own suggested defences.

EdgeOne and EdgeX: end-of-day trailing

The threshold is recalculated once, at the close of each session, from the official end-of-day balance. Intraday swings do not move it. During the day you trade against the threshold set the previous evening, and touching that level still fails the account.

The same runner that failed the EdgeCore account only lifts the EdgeOne threshold by the $500 actually banked. The EOD plans cost more than EdgeCore.

Where the drawdown stops: the Safety Net

In funded accounts the trailing stops for good once peak equity reaches the Safety Net = starting balance + trailing drawdown + $100: $52,600 on a 50K, $78,100 on a 75K, $103,600 on a 100K, $154,600 on a 150K and $206,100 on a 200K. On EdgeOne and EdgeX the Safety Net has to be confirmed at end of day. After that the threshold is a fixed floor. EdgeProp’s pages describe that floor differently: the PA article’s example has a 50K account dropping to $51,000 after the lock without failing (by the formula the locked threshold is $50,100), while the Program Types article and the Terms call the Safety Net itself the minimum balance to maintain in a funded account. Withdrawals must always leave the balance above the Safety Net. Treat the Safety Net as your floor until support confirms otherwise.

Realized profit alone does not lock it. EdgeProp’s example: a 150K trader with $6,000 of realized profit whose peak equity never touched $154,600 is still on a trailing threshold.

For how other firms handle this, see BestProps’ guide to trailing drawdown rules and the list of prop firms with end-of-day drawdown.

Source: EdgeProp Trailing Threshold Explained, Program Types & Payout Rules, PA & Live Funding Explained and Funded Trader Agreement 2.6 – checked October 11, 2026.

EdgeProp Consistency Rule and Calculator

The EdgeProp consistency rule only applies to funded EdgeCore and EdgeOne accounts. Evaluations have no consistency rule, and EdgeX funded accounts are exempt. When you ask for a payout, your best single day since the last payout must be no more than 40% of total profit over that same period:

best day ÷ total profit ≤ 40%, or equivalently minimum total profit = best day ÷ 0.40.

Breaking it does not breach the account. It holds the payout until enough further profit dilutes the big day, and the measurement restarts after each approved payout.

The 40% rule, worked

Two practical points. Losing days reduce total profit, which raises the ratio, so a red day after a big green day can undo eligibility. And because every payout also needs five days of at least $200, the 40% rule rarely bites on steady trading: five $400 days give $2,000 with a 20% best-day share. It bites when one day is much bigger than the rest.

EdgeProp consistency calculator

Enter each day’s net P&L since your last approved payout (or since funding for the first one). The calculator checks the 40% rule, counts your $200+ days and shows how much more profit you need. For other firms’ limits, use the general consistency rule calculator or read the consistency rule explainer.

Source: EdgeProp PA & Live Funding Explained, Program Types & Payout Rules, Evaluation Accounts article (section 9) and Funded Trader Agreement section 4 – checked October 11, 2026.

EdgeProp News Trading Rules

EdgeProp restricts trading around scheduled high-impact economic releases on every plan, in both the evaluation and the funded stage. The rule is strict: be flat at least 5 minutes before the release, and do not open, close or hold a position until 2 minutes after it.

The list of covered releases also includes GDP (advance, preliminary and final), the Core PCE price index and ISM manufacturing and services PMIs. The times above are EdgeProp’s examples; the live calendar in the dashboard (Resources, Economic Calendar, shown in Central Time) is what counts, and if a release is rescheduled the window moves with it.

• Evaluation: holding a position during the window is disqualification.
• Funded: the account may be flagged for audit and suspended pending review. Agreement section 6.17 adds that trading which exploits abnormal spreads or slippage around events can lead to payout review or denial.
• No partial-close exceptions: the firm states there are no exceptions for missed deadlines or partial closes. A resting stop or target that fills inside the window is still a trade inside the window, so pull working orders too.

Since FOMC lands at 1:00 PM CT and the daily cut-off is 3:1