Challenge overview
- Firm: Lucid Trading (US futures, est. March 2025)
- Program: LucidDaily EOD DLL
- Account size: 50K USD
- Phase: 1-step evaluation
- Activation fee: none
- Listed one-time price: $135.50
- Brokers: CQG, EdgeClear, NinjaTrader, Rithmic
- Platforms: ATAS Orderflow Trading, Bookmap, Jigsaw Daytradr, MotiveWave, MultiCharts, NinjaTrader, Quantower, R Trader Pro, Sierra Chart, Tradesea, TradingView, Tradovate
- Payment: Credit/Debit Card
- Payout methods: Crypto, Plaid, WorkMarket
Rules breakdown
- Profit target: $3,000 (6% of 50K)
- Max loss: $2,000 (4% of 50K)
- Max loss type: EOD Trailing
- Max contracts: 4 minis / 40 micros
- Consistency: 50% | None
- Daily loss limit: not listed as a separate DLL number on the sources used (some Daily product names include "DLL")
- News trading: not allowed around red-folder news (hard breach)
- Weekend holding: not listed on this source
Firm-wide rules:
- Micro scalping: accounts may be flagged if more than 50% of profits come from trades held 5 seconds or less. Genuine scalping is allowed if it looks like real market activity.
- Hedging is prohibited, including opposite positions across multiple accounts and correlated contracts (for example long ES in one account and short NQ in another).
- High-frequency trading is prohibited. Lucid may remove profits, close accounts, and restrict access for repeated offenses.
- Inactivity: accounts with no net profit or loss of at least $1 within 30 calendar days are treated as abandoned and permanently deleted.
- News: allowed on all evaluations and funded accounts except LucidDaily. On LucidDaily, red-folder news is a hard breach — be flat from 1 minute before through 1 minute after the event.
How to pass
Reach the $3,000 profit target without exceeding the $2,000 eod trailing.
Stay inside the 4 mini / 40 micro contract cap.
On LucidDaily, be flat from 1 minute before through 1 minute after red-folder news. Do not hold or open positions in that window.
Do not hedge across accounts or correlated products, and do not run HFT. Avoid the micro-scalping pattern Lucid flags (most profits from sub-5-second trades).
Trade at least $1 of net P&L within 30 calendar days or the account can be deleted for inactivity.
How payouts work
- Profit split: 90%
- Payout methods: Crypto, Plaid, WorkMarket
- Daily payouts. Balance must exceed $52,100 buffer. Net profit must be $1 or more between requests. No max payout per request; if sim profit meets or exceeds $8,000 in a day you are automatically moved live.
- Table/card max payout or live cap: Daily sim live cap $8,000
- Commissions: https://support.lucidtrading.com/en/articles/11508978-approved-products-and-commissions
Common mistakes
- Treating a third-party listing price as Lucid's official checkout terms.
- Trading red-folder news on LucidDaily. That is listed as a hard breach.
- Hedging ES vs NQ (or any correlated pair) across separate accounts.
- Letting the account sit 30 days with no $1 P&L.
- Ignoring the program-specific consistency, buffer, or 5-profitable-day rule when requesting a payout.
- Restricted countries: Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Angola; Bahamas; Barbados; Belarus; Belize; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Bulgaria; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Congo (Kinshasa); Cote d'Ivoire; Crimea; Cuba; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Ghana; Guinea; Haiti; Iceland; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Jamaica; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kherson (Russia-occupied Ukraine); Kosovo; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Lebanon; Liberia; Libya; Lithuania; Mali; Mauritius; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nicaragua; Nigeria; North Korea; North Macedonia; Pakistan; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Ukraine regions Crimea/Donetsk/Luhansk; Republic of the Congo; Russia; Senegal; Serbia; Seychelles; Slovenia; Somalia; South Africa; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Syria; Tanzania; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Uganda; Ukraine; Uzbekistan; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen; Zimbabwe. Verify the live list with Lucid before signing up.
A practical risk plan
Plan trades so a normal losing day cannot consume most of the $2,000 max loss.
The profit target is 6% of the account; the max loss is 4%. Size so you can survive a string of losses and still have room to reach the target.
This is educational, not financial advice. Verify Lucid's live rules before you trade.
Verify the current rules
Rules can change. Verify all limits and payout terms with Lucid Trading before trading. Numbers below were captured from a public challenges listing and may not match Lucid's live checkout.