Best Futures Prop Firms with Static Drawdown
Last updated 2026-10-27
These firms sell accounts with a static drawdown that stays put no matter how much you make, ordered by our overall score for trust, cost, payouts and rules.
The most expensive lesson in futures funding is finding out what kind of drawdown you bought after you blow the 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, the lowest balance your account can touch, is set when the account starts and it stays there, win or lose. That makes it the most honest risk number in this industry, and also the rarest: 3 of the 15 firms we rank still sell one.
Rarest is not an exaggeration. 12 of the 15 firms we rank run trailing models only, 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 overall 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 plan 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, accounts that are static in both phases at several sizes, and even a small static instant account.
The Ranked List
Every ranked firm below sells at least one live account where the drawdown method is static, read straight from our firm 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
71/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $59 to $799
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing, Static
- How Often You Can Get Paid: Daily
- 90% profit split
No firm we cover commits to static like BluSky. The funded side of the Launch and Propel plans lands on a static floor, and several sizes sell as static in both phases. There is even a small static instant account if you want to feel how static works at small size before sizing up. The floors are fixed dollar amounts that differ by size and plan, 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
18th Street Trading
61/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $265 to $1,595
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: After a set number of days
- 90% profit split
Each phase has an end-of-day trailing drawdown, but the live account you reach after the fourth payout has a static max loss of 50% of its balance, $1,500 on the $3,000 account from the 25K plan. You can't buy that stage directly: you get there by passing four phases, and a fail in any of them sends you back to Phase 1.
- #3
Phidias Propfirm
60/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $88 to $1,125
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Static
- How Often You Can Get Paid: After a set number of days
- 75% profit 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 a bigger drawdown for a floor 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
The firms that qualify rank by overall score within the static filter, the order is worked out again 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 names straight first, because the words get used loosely. Static drawdown is a fixed floor: the account starts, the drawdown 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, following your open equity peak up 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.
Why Static Is Scarce
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 drawdown for the life of the account, which costs the firm more when things go wrong. So the firms that still sell static make up for it somewhere else, usually with a tighter floor than the trail you are comparing it against. That is the real comparison to run: a smaller drawdown that never moves, versus a bigger drawdown that chases you. Neither is free money.
Watch for the Hybrids
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 trade long-term is the funded one, so check the funded drawdown first, and make sure the switch between phases is something you learned before checkout rather than after a payout request.
Does Static Fit How You Trade
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 trail with more drawdown. 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 floor, the lowest balance your account can touch, 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 drawdown; trailing gives you a bigger drawdown at first that closes 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 drawdown 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 make up for it with a tighter floor.
Is a static drawdown account harder to pass?
The floors are often tighter than a comparable trail, so there is less drawdown, but it is predictable. 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.