Lucid Trading rules explained: Flex, Daily, Pro and Direct

Lucid Trading runs four main futures plans: LucidFlex, LucidDaily and LucidPro (an evaluation, then a funded account) and LucidDirect (straight to funded). They share one drawdown model — an end-of-day trail that locks at your starting balance + $100 — but differ on consistency, daily loss limits and payouts.

Everything below is from Lucid's Help Center, as checked on the date above. Lucid updates these pages often (several changed this week), and a few of its own pages disagree with each other — those are flagged at the end. Always check the linked page and your dashboard before you trade.

#The plans at a glance

	Evaluation	Drawdown	Consistency	Daily loss limit
LucidFlex	Yes	End of day	Eval 40% (50% add-on); none funded	Optional
LucidDaily	Yes	Eval: end of day or intraday; funded: intraday	Eval only (see below); none funded	Optional, fixed
LucidPro	Yes, can pass in one day	End of day	None in the eval; 40% for payouts	Fixed in the eval, then scaling
LucidDirect	No — straight to funded	End of day	20% for payouts	Set by account size

LucidMaxx is invite-only ("not available to the general public"), so it isn't covered here.

#Drawdown: an end-of-day trail that locks at +$100

Lucid calls the drawdown the Max Loss Limit (MLL). On LucidFlex, LucidPro and LucidDirect it is end of day: "At the end of each trading session, the system calculates the account's highest closing balance", and the MLL follows it up. It stops trailing once the account passes a set balance — "Once the account exceeds the trail, the MLL locks at the initial balance plus $100" (LucidFlex Drawdown).

LucidFlex, LucidDaily and LucidPro use the same table:

Account	MLL	Trails until the balance exceeds	Then locks at
$25K	$1,000	$26,100	$25,100
$50K	$2,000	$52,100	$50,100
$100K	$3,000	$103,100	$100,100
$150K	$4,500	$154,600	$150,100

LucidDirect's larger accounts have more room: $3,500 on $100K (trail $103,600) and $5,000 on $150K (trail $155,100), both locking at starting + $100 (LucidDirect Drawdown). On LucidFlex, a payout request also moves the MLL straight to the locked level.

LucidDaily is different. Its evaluation lets you choose end-of-day or intraday drawdown at checkout — "Intraday drawdown brings your MLL up with your real-time P&L" — and its funded accounts "always use an Intraday drawdown" (LucidDaily Drawdown). An intraday trail follows your open profit, not just your closing balance, so it can rise during a trade that later gives the gains back.

Touching the MLL is a hard breach: "If your account balance reached the MLL, your account will be breached."

#Example 1: a LucidFlex $50K trailing, then locking

End-of-day closes on a $50K LucidFlex account (MLL $2,000, starting floor $48,000):

Day	P&L	Closing balance	MLL after the close
1	+$800	$50,800	$48,800
2	+$700	$51,500	$49,500
3	−$300	$51,200	$49,500 (it never moves down)
4	+$1,100	$52,300	$50,100 — locked
5	−$1,500	$50,800	$50,100

On day 4 the account closes above $52,100, so the MLL stops at $50,100 instead of trailing to $50,300. On day 5 the account is $700 above the MLL — and from now on that floor never moves again.

#Consistency: different on every plan

Lucid measures consistency as Largest Single Day Profit ÷ Account Profit.

• LucidFlex evaluation: "must be 40% or less to be eligible to upgrade… If you added the 50% consistency add-on at checkout, it must be 50% or less" (LucidFlex Consistency Percentage). With 40% you can pass "in as few as 3 days"; with the add-on, 2. Funded LucidFlex accounts have no consistency rule.
• LucidDaily evaluation: the Customization page (updated Oct 20, 2026) lists 40% as standard and 50% as an add-on; the older LucidDaily Consistency page (July 27) gives 50% only. Funded LucidDaily accounts have none.
• LucidPro: no consistency in the evaluation. For payouts, "Your largest single-day profit must be no more than 40% of your total profit during the payout cycle", resetting after each payout. Accounts bought before Nov 28, 2025 (3:00 PM EST) stay at 35% (LucidPro Consistency Percentage).
• LucidDirect: for payouts, the largest day must be "no more than 20% of your total profit during the payout cycle" (LucidDirect Consistency Percentage).

#Example 2: a LucidFlex $50K evaluation at 40%

Profit target $3,000.

Passes: +$1,000, +$900, +$700, +$600 = $3,200. Largest day $1,000 ÷ $3,200 = 31.25% — at most 40%, and over the target.

Not yet: +$1,400, +$900, +$800 = $3,100. $1,400 ÷ $3,100 = 45.2% — over 40% (though it would pass with the 50% add-on). To get to 40% the profit must reach $1,400 ÷ 0.40 = $3,500: $400 more, with no day bigger than $1,400.

#Example 3: LucidPro and LucidDirect payout cycles

LucidPro, 40%: a $50K funded payout cycle of +$600, +$500, +$400 = $1,500. Largest day $600 ÷ $1,500 = exactly 40% — "no more than 40%", so it qualifies, and $1,500 clears the $50K minimum profit goal of $500.

LucidDirect, 20%: Lucid's own example — a largest day of $500 in $3,000 of cycle profit is 16.7%, under 20%. On a $50K LucidDirect, the first payout also needs a $3,000 profit goal (Payout Objectives).

#Daily loss limits

• LucidFlex: optional, chosen at checkout (Customization). It is a soft breach — "you will simply be locked out until the next trading session". The LucidFlex pages don't list its dollar amounts; check them at checkout.
• LucidDaily: optional and fixed: $600 / $1,200 / $1,800 / $2,700 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K. "The DLL remains fixed throughout the trading session and does not trail upward with the Max Loss Limit" (LucidDaily Daily Loss Limit).
• LucidPro: a fixed limit in the evaluation — none on $25K, then $1,200 / $1,800 / $2,700 (LucidPro Evaluation Account). Once a funded account closes above its trail balance, the fixed limit is replaced by the LucidScale DLL: "Highest end-of-day account profit × 60%", which "does not decrease, even if the account draws down" (LucidPro Daily Loss Limit) — Lucid's example: $4,000 × 0.60 = $2,400.
• LucidDirect: not optional — none on $25K, then $1,200 / $2,100 / $3,000, switching to the same 60% LucidScale limit above the trail (LucidDirect Daily Loss Limit).

Every Lucid daily loss limit is soft: hitting it pauses you for the session; only the MLL ends the account.

#Example 4: hitting the LucidDaily limit

A $50K LucidDaily account with the daily loss limit on ($1,200), no profit yet, loses $1,200 in a session. The limit is hit, so trading pauses until the next session. The balance is $48,800, still above the $48,000 MLL, so the account carries on.

#Payouts, in brief

• LucidFlex funded: a 90/10 split; profit on 5 separate days in the cycle ($100 / $150 / $200 / $250 a day by account size) plus positive net profit; up to 50% of profit per payout, capped at $1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000; "There is no buffer balance" (LucidFlex Payouts).
• LucidDaily funded: a 90/10 split; you keep a buffer of the initial MLL + $100 ($26,100 / $52,100 / $103,100 / $154,600) and can be paid what you've made above it (LucidDaily Funded Account).
• LucidPro funded: a 90/10 split, a minimum profit goal per cycle ($250 / $500 / $750 / $1,000) and the same buffer of initial MLL + $100 (LucidPro Payouts).
• LucidDirect: a 90/10 split and a profit goal per cycle — $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 for the first payout (Payout Objectives).

#Trading hours and other rules

• Flat by 4:45 PM EST. On LucidPro, LucidFlex and LucidDirect, "All positions must be closed by 4:45 PM EST, Monday through Friday"; open positions are closed automatically, and "Holding a position past this time does not result in a failed account". Trading resumes at 6:00 PM EST (Allowed Trading Times).
• News. Allowed on Flex, Pro and Direct; "Trading red folder news on the LucidDaily is a hard breach" (Other Trading Activities).
• No hedging — across your own accounts, other traders' or other firms', including correlated products like long ES in one account and short NQ in another (Prohibited: Hedging).

#Where Lucid's own pages disagree

As of the checked date, these official pages say different things — your dashboard and Lucid support have the final word:

• LucidDaily consistency: 40% standard / 50% add-on (Customization, Oct 20) vs 50% only (Consistency, July 27).
• LucidPro daily loss limit: the Evaluation and DLL pages list a fixed limit, while the LucidPro Customization page (Oct 19) makes it optional ("On or Off"). One funded page lists $600 for $25K where others say none.
• The LucidScale limit's basis: some pages say "60% of Peak EOD Balance", others "Highest end-of-day account profit × 60%".
• Session end: the trading-times page says flat by 4:45 PM EST; the on-demand payout pages describe a session of "6:00 PM to 3:45 PM ET".

#Track it on your own account

In Ink, give the account Lucid's numbers: Max loss = the MLL, drawdown End of day (or Intraday for LucidDaily funded), Lock level $100, your plan's consistency % and the daily loss limit as Soft. Ink then shows the floor, whether it's locked, your consistency % and the session's loss after every trade. (Ink sees closed trades only, so an intraday floor is shown as an estimate.) See how drawdown works in Ink, consistency and daily loss limits.

Ink is not affiliated with Lucid Trading. The rules above are quoted from Lucid's Help Center as checked on the date shown; Lucid can change them at any time — always check the linked pages.