Lucid Trading

Compare Lucid’s futures accounts, trading limits and payout requirements before choosing your plan.

Official sources checked October 2026 · Simulated accounts, with a separate path to live trading

Lucid Account Comparison

Four routes, different payout conditions. Choose one account size to update every comparison.

Account size

Configuration shownEOD evaluation · Daily loss limit ONDirect uses its fixed starting rules. Other configurations cost differently.

Prices below are the listed reference prices before promotions, in USD, paid once. Lucid displays separate limited-time and coupon prices; confirm the final price and configuration at checkout. No partner offer is applied here.

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Lucid Drawdown Rules

The drawdown amount is your loss allowance. The account’s headline size is not money you can withdraw.

Flex · Pro · Direct

End-of-day trailing

The loss threshold follows the highest closing balance. A lower close does not move it back down. Touching the threshold breaches the account.

Illustrative 50K EOD account

Starting balance$50,000Threshold $48,000

New highest close$51,000Threshold $49,000

Later lower close$50,500Threshold $49,000

Daily funded

Intraday trailing

The threshold rises with real-time P&L. Giving back an unrealized gain can therefore leave less room than an EOD account.

Daily changes at the funded stage

Even when you choose EOD for the evaluation, Daily funded accounts always use intraday drawdown.

Where trailing stops

Flex has an extra trigger: requesting a payout moves its threshold to the locked level. No payout buffer does not mean no remaining drawdown requirement.

Lucid Payout Rules

These rules apply to simulated funded accounts. Evaluation profits are not available for withdrawal.

Trader share90%Of an approved payout

Minimum request$500Across these four plans

Request windowWhen eligibleEach plan has its own conditions

Eligibility & request limits

Pro and Direct account overviews say “no simulated payout caps”, but their dedicated payout pages publish per-request limits. The limits above follow those payout pages; confirm the applicable agreement before buying.

Processing after approvalLucid advertises about 15 minutes on average; plan rules allow up to 2 business days for disbursement. Approval and bank receipt are separate steps.

Plaid

Instant bank transfers for U.S. traders, after approval.

WorkMarket by ADP

U.S. and international traders. Bank transfer or PayPal; receipt may be as early as the next business day.

Crypto

International traders. BTC, ETH, LTC, USDT and USDC are listed.

Lucid Fees

Account fees are one-time payments. Optional services and transaction costs still matter.

Fee	Amount / status	When it applies
Entry & activation	See selected accounts above	No activation fee for Flex, Pro or Daily; Direct has no evaluation upgrade.
Account subscription	No monthly rebilling	A paid reset is a separate purchase.
Evaluation reset		Observed in the live selector; verify the dashboard price. Breached evaluations are removed after 30 days without reset.
Data, platform & commissions	Check the chosen feed and software	Platform support does not establish that every license, data add-on or trade commission is included.
Withdrawal charges	Provider-dependent; amount not verified	Check bank, PayPal or crypto charges before selecting a payout method.

Lucid Trading Rules

Keep the account stage and the consequence in view. Expand a rule for the exact distinction.

Loss threshold All four plansAccount breach

Reaching the maximum loss threshold breaches the account. EOD describes how the threshold moves; it does not permit trading through that threshold during the session.

Daily loss limit DLL-enabled accountsSession pause

Hitting the DLL pauses trading until the next session, provided the maximum loss threshold has not also been hit. Pro and Direct can move to LucidScale after the specified trail balance: 60% of highest end-of-day account profit, not 60% of the nominal account size.

Position sizing Flex fundedScaling applies

Flex starts below its maximum contract limit and adjusts at session end. Payouts can reduce the available tier. Deliberately bypassing limits can trigger review and removal of daily profit. See the linked scaling table.

High-impact USD news Daily fundedHard breach

Remain flat from one minute before until one minute after a high-impact USD event. The funded Daily article specifies this window; the general activities article says Daily more broadly, so confirm evaluation scope. Flex, Pro and Direct permit news trading under the other rules.

Session close Flex · Pro · DirectAuto-close

The trading-times page states 4:45 PM “EST” closure and 6:00 PM “EST” reopening. Auto-closure itself is not a failed account. Holiday hours override the usual close. Daily is not named on that page; verify its session schedule and the daylight-saving interpretation.

Inactivity Evaluation & fundedDeletion after 30 days

Within each 30-calendar-day period, trading must produce at least $1 net profit or loss. An account that does not satisfy the activity requirement is treated as abandoned.

Prohibited execution All accountsReview & sanctions

Microscalping is flagged when more than 50% of profit comes from trades held five seconds or less. Confirmed repeated abuse after a warning can lose profits and access. HFT is prohibited; repeated offenses can remove profits and close accounts. Cross-account hedging can reset balances and, on repetition, breach accounts. Compliant automation and genuine scalping are allowed.

Frequently Asked Questions

A few distinctions worth checking before you choose.

Does “funded” mean a live brokerage account?

No. Flex, Pro, Daily and Direct funded stages covered here are simulated. Live transition is a separate process; Direct skips evaluation, not simulation.

Which account has no funded consistency rule?

Flex and Daily. Flex requires five qualifying profit days each payout cycle; Daily requires profits above its buffer and positive net profit since the previous payout.

Can I turn off the daily loss limit?

Flex, Pro and Daily offer customization at purchase. The comparison shows DLL ON and EOD evaluations. Different settings change the price and cannot be assumed to match this quote.

Which platforms can I use?

Lucid lists NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView through CQG; Rithmic options include MotiveWave, Quantower, Tradesea, Sierra Chart and others. Check software licensing separately.

Can I trade after requesting a payout?

Keep the requested amount out of your risk calculations. A falling balance before processing can make the request ineligible. Submitted payout requests cannot be edited or canceled.

Official Sources

Checked October 2026. Pricing comes from the live configurator; rules come from the plan-specific help articles.

Choose the rules before the price.

Recheck the selected configuration and agreement at purchase.

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