Lucid Trading account sizes & per-size rules

The full Lucid Trading size ladder

Prop pricing scales sub-linearly with account size — roughly the square root of the size ratio — so the biggest account is almost never the best value per dollar of usable buffer. Each line below shows the modelled list price, the first-phase profit target and the loss buffer expressed as a percentage of the account.

Read the buffer column first. On a static drawdown, the dollar buffer is the only number that limits your position size; the account label is marketing. A trader risking 1% per trade on the 150k account is taking the same dollar risk as one risking 6× that percentage on the smallest.

• 25k — $40, 6% target = $1.5k, 5% buffer = $1.3k of loss room
• 50k — $55, 6% target = $3k, 5% buffer = $2.5k of loss room
• 100k — $80, 6% target = $6k, 5% buffer = $5k of loss room
• 150k — $95, 6% target = $9k, 5% buffer = $7.5k of loss room

Which Lucid Trading size is actually the best value

Cost per dollar of loss buffer is the honest comparison. 25k costs 0.032 per dollar of buffer; 50k costs 0.022 per dollar of buffer; 100k costs 0.016 per dollar of buffer; 150k costs 0.013 per dollar of buffer. The cheapest ratio is where the firm is subsidising you the most, and it is usually a mid tier rather than the flagship.

The second filter is your own stop distance. Work out the worst-case dollar loss of a normal trade at your usual size, multiply by five consecutive losers, and buy the smallest account whose buffer absorbs that without breaching. Buying above that point is paying for headroom you will never trade into; buying below it guarantees a reset fee.

What the 25k and 50k tiers mean in practice

The small tiers are where most traders start and where most resets happen, because the dollar buffer is small enough that a single mis-sized position ends the account. On a futures account, one ES contract moves roughly $50 per point — on a 25k account with a few thousand dollars of buffer, a 20-point adverse move on two contracts is most of your room. Micros exist precisely for this tier.

The larger tiers change the psychology more than the maths. Same rules, same percentage targets, bigger dollar swings — which is why traders who pass consistently on a small account often breach the first week on a large one. Scale the account only after you have taken at least two payouts at the size below.

• Static drawdown option: On the static plans the maximum loss level is fixed at account open and never trails. Accumulated profit becomes permanent cushion, which is the opposite of the Apex model and the main reason to choose this firm.
• No daily loss limit on static plans: There is no separate intraday stop-out; the fixed floor is the only hard boundary. That grants recovery room but removes an automatic circuit breaker on a bad day.
• 40% consistency rule at payout: No single day may exceed 40% of net profit in the withdrawal cycle. This applies to funded payouts, not just the evaluation — the same structure Alpha Futures uses, and looser than Funding Ticks at 30%.
• Cheap resets: Reset pricing is below the futures average, which lowers the cost of a failed attempt and makes running parallel evaluations viable.

Rules that stay the same at every size

Firms rarely vary the rulebook by account size — they vary the dollar limits. On Lucid Trading the constants are the static drawdown, the 90% profit split, the bi-weekly payout window and the consistency position (no single day > 40% of net profit).

• News trading: allowed — No news restriction.
• EAs: conditionally allowed — Assisted automation allowed.
• Weekend holding: not permitted — Flat before the weekend.
• Time limit: none — No deadline on the evaluation.

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