Lucid Trading drawdown, explained

LucidFlex accounts use an end-of-day trailing drawdown that stops at a fixed balance. The table is from Lucid's own pages; the calculator below uses it.

LucidFlex Evaluation: drawdown by account size
Account	Drawdown	Type	Floor stops at	Consistency	Max contracts
25K	$1,000	End of day	$25,100	40% (50% with add-on)	2 mini
50K	$2,000	End of day	$50,100	40% (50% with add-on)	4 mini
100K	$3,000	End of day	$100,100	40% (50% with add-on)	6 mini
150K	$4,500	End of day	$150,100	40% (50% with add-on)	10 mini

Read on 3 Nov 2026 from LucidFlex Evaluation Account and LucidFlex Drawdown. Firms change rules: check the pages before you trade.

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Intraday trailing End-of-day trailing Static

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How the LucidFlex drawdown moves

Lucid writes that "LucidFlex evaluation and funded accounts use an End-of-Day Drawdown (EOD Drawdown) system to calculate the Max Loss Limit (MLL)". At the end of each session the system takes your highest closing balance, and the floor sits one drawdown below it. It rises when you close at a new high and never comes back down.

End of day means a trade that runs up during the session and comes back before the close does not raise the floor. Only the closing balance counts for moving it.

Where it locks

Each account has an Initial Trail Balance: $26,100 on a 25K, $52,100 on a 50K, $103,100 on a 100K and $154,600 on a 150K. Once the account exceeds it, Lucid writes, "the MLL locks and no longer moves", at the starting balance plus $100. From that point the drawdown is effectively static.

A payout locks it too. Lucid's page says that "once you request a payout from LucidFlex, your MLL automatically adjusts to the Locked MLL Balance".

A 50K account, three days

The floor starts at $48,000. You close day one at $51,000, so day two starts with the floor at $49,000. You close day two at $52,500: that is above $52,100, so the floor stops at $50,100 instead of rising to $50,500. You close day three at $53,000 and the floor is still $50,100, with $2,900 of room.

The lock helps only after the account has grown. Before that, every good close tightens tomorrow: after the $51,000 close, a red day of $2,000 ends the account even though it is still $1,000 above where it started. The calculator above is filled with these three days; change them to yours.

What usually breaks it

Floors rarely break on a single bad trade sized correctly. They break on the stop moved further away, or on the trade taken right after a loss to win it back. Those are habits, not rules, and that is where the free diagnostic below starts.

Questions

Is Lucid Trading's drawdown trailing or static?

Trailing, until it locks. On LucidFlex the Max Loss Limit rises with your highest closing balance, then stops at $100 above your starting balance once the account passes the Initial Trail Balance. From then on it behaves like a static floor.

Is it end-of-day or intraday?

End of day. Lucid writes that LucidFlex evaluation and funded accounts use an End-of-Day Drawdown system: the highest closing balance is calculated at the end of each session. A run-up during the day that you give back before the close does not raise the floor.

When does the LucidFlex drawdown stop trailing?

When the account exceeds the Initial Trail Balance: $26,100 on a 25K, $52,100 on a 50K, $103,100 on a 100K and $154,600 on a 150K. The Max Loss Limit then locks at the starting balance plus $100 and no longer moves.

What happens to the drawdown after a payout?

Lucid writes that once you request a payout from LucidFlex, your Max Loss Limit automatically adjusts to the Locked MLL Balance, for example $50,100 on a 50K account. After a payout, the floor sits $100 above where the account started.

Accounts rarely die from the drawdown. They die from the stop you moved before it.

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