Best Futures Prop Firms with Static Drawdown
Last updated 2026-07-13
The most expensive lesson in futures funding is finding out what kind of drawdown you bought after it closes your account. Trailing drawdown chases your profit peak, and the intraday versions chase your open equity, so a trade that never closed red can still fail you. Static drawdown does none of that. The floor is set when the account starts and it stays there, win or lose, which makes it the most honest risk number in this industry, and also the rarest.
Rarest is not an exaggeration. Most of the roster has moved to trailing models, several firms that used to sell static have discontinued or closed those programs, and what is left is a short list. This page is that list, ranked by composite score within the static filter, and it also tells you plainly which firms you may remember offering static that no longer do.
Quick Picks By Use Case
Pure static, no stringsPhidias
The Express to Live line is static in both the eval and the funded phase, with no consistency rule and no minimum trading days at any stage.
The deepest static catalogBluSky Trading
Funded-side static floors across most of the lineup, full-static builds at several sizes, and even a static instant micro account.
The Ranked List
Every ranked entry below sells at least one live account where the drawdown method is static, read straight from the tier data, and the list is short because the market went the other way. If a firm you expected is missing, its static program is probably gone: TradeDay closed its legacy Static accounts to new purchases, Apex discontinued its static sizes, and Lucid runs end-of-day trailing on every account it sells. We would rather show you a short true list than a long padded one.
- #1
BluSky Trading
69/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $59 to $749
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Static
- Payout cadence: Daily
- 90 percent split
Nobody on the roster commits to static like BluSky. The funded side of the Launch and Propel families lands on a static floor, several sizes sell as static in both phases, and there is even a static instant micro if you want to feel the mechanic with small stakes before sizing up. The floors are fixed dollar amounts that differ by size and family, so make sure you know your exact number before the first trade. A static floor is honest, but it forgives nothing once you are standing on it.
- #2
Phidias Propfirm
58/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $88 to $1,125
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Static
- Payout cadence: Cycle-based
- 75 percent split
Express to Live is static the whole way through, eval and funded, with no consistency rule and no minimum trading days at any stage. The floor is the tradeoff: it sits tight against the starting balance at every size, so you are trading room for the honesty of a line that never moves. Traders who run tight stops and know how far their entries normally go against them before working tend to love this product. Traders who give positions room to breathe should measure that habit against the floor first.
How We Ranked These
This ranked list is as short as any on the site, and we thought about padding it. We did not, because the shortness is the finding: static drawdown has nearly disappeared from futures funding, and a list that hides that behind loosely qualifying entries would be lying about the category. The firms that qualify rank by composite score within the static filter, the order recomputes from the data whenever it changes, and commission has nothing to do with any of it. The full method is published on the score calculation method page.
What To Look For
Get the taxonomy straight first, because the words get used loosely. Static drawdown is a fixed floor: the account starts, the liquidation line is set, and nothing you do moves it. End-of-day trailing recalculates the floor once per day off your closed balance, so it climbs behind your wins but ignores intraday swings. Intraday trailing is the harsh one, ratcheting off your open equity peak in real time, which is how a winning trade that pulled back can end an account. When a firm says trailing, always find out which one, because the two behave nothing alike under a live position.
Then understand why static is scarce, because the reason is the tradeoff you are about to buy. A trailing floor locks in the firm's risk as you win; a static floor keeps giving you the full room for the life of the account, which costs the firm more when things go wrong. So the firms that still sell static price the room somewhere else, usually as a tighter floor than the trail you are comparing it against. That is the real comparison to run: a smaller room that never moves, versus a bigger room that chases you. Neither is free money.
Watch for the hybrids too. Some accounts are static in one phase only, an eval that trails into a static funded account, or a static eval that converts to a trailing funded floor. The phase you will actually live in long-term is the funded one, so check that column first, and make sure the phase split is something you learned before checkout rather than after a payout request.
The style fit is the last honest question. Static floors reward precision: tight stops, defined risk per trade, entries that do not need much room to prove themselves. If your winners routinely start as small losers, a tight static floor punishes exactly the habit that makes you money on a roomier trail. Neither answer is wrong. They are different products for different trading personalities, and the drawdown model you pick decides which of your habits get punished.
FAQ
What is static drawdown at a prop firm?
A fixed liquidation floor set when the account opens. It never moves, regardless of wins or losses, unlike trailing drawdown which raises the floor as your balance or open equity climbs.
What is the difference between static and trailing drawdown?
Static stays where it started. Trailing follows your peak, either recalculated at end of day off closed balance or in real time off open equity. Static gives you a permanent, predictable room; trailing gives you a bigger room at first that shrinks the gap as you win.
Which futures prop firms still offer static drawdown?
The ranked list above. Several programs you may remember are gone: TradeDay's Static accounts closed to new purchases, Apex discontinued its static sizes, and Lucid never offers static at all.
Why did most prop firms drop static drawdown?
A static floor leaves the trader the full room for the life of the account, while a trailing floor locks in the firm's downside as the account grows. Trailing costs the firm less, so the industry moved to it, and the firms still selling static usually price that room as a tighter floor.
Is a static drawdown account harder to pass?
The floors are often tighter than a comparable trail, so there is less room, but it is predictable room. Traders with defined risk per trade generally find static easier to manage. Traders who let positions breathe often find the tight floor harder than a trail.