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LucidDaily is Lucid Trading’s daily-request account, launched in July 2026. Once funded, requests require at least $500, sufficient profit above the payout buffer and positive net progress since the last payout. There is no funded consistency rule or fixed per-request dollar cap. At purchase, choose the DLL setting, 40% standard or optional paid 50% evaluation consistency, and the drawdown configuration. Lucid announced an EOD alternative to intraday for both evaluation and funded on November 1, 2026; older Help Center wording still describes funded as intraday. Use the configuration in your order record or dashboard. The split is 90/10. The prices later in this guide are a dated September 16 snapshot, not a current configured quote.
Flex and Pro tested firsthand, LucidDaily researched: I have traded Lucid since the firm launched and completed 30 payout cycles across several LucidFlex and LucidPro accounts. That count spans account generations rather than two accounts running forever, because a sim account tops out at five payouts or ends on a breach. Everything you read here about LucidDaily itself comes from Lucid's published rules and help center documentation, cross-checked against live checkout pricing in July 2026.
If you want the wider picture first, start with my full Lucid Trading review, or jump straight to the head-to-head comparisons: LucidFlex vs LucidDaily and LucidPro vs LucidDaily. For the absolute latest, check Lucid Trading's website or their help center.
What Is the LucidDaily Account?
LucidDaily is the fourth account type in Lucid Trading's current lineup, listed on the site between LucidFlex and LucidDirect. Lucid announced it in July 2026, in the same stretch that saw the launch of the Lucid mobile app. The pitch is simple: it is the purchasable Lucid account with the fastest payout rhythm. Once funded, you can submit a payout request on any day you are eligible, there is no consistency rule, and there is no cap on how much a single request can be beyond your available profit.
LucidFlex requires five qualifying profitable days per payout, with a request limited to 50% of profit up to its size-specific cap. Flex, Pro and Direct have a maximum of five simulated payouts; Lucid's risk team may select a trader for live earlier. Pro requires cycle profit, consistency and profit above a protected buffer. Its current payout policy allows a request on any eligible day and does not establish a separate three-calendar-day wait. The 40% consistency check mathematically requires at least three contributing profitable days. Daily has no funded consistency check or qualifying-day count and no per-request ceiling beyond available profit above its buffer.
Nothing is free in prop firm design, though, and LucidDaily pays for its payout speed in three places. First, intraday remains available and is stricter than EOD, while buyers can also select EOD for the funded phase. Second, trading through red folder news events is a hard breach that ends a funded account, and Lucid's general rules article does not say the evaluation is exempt. Third, the live transition works differently: sim profits above the buffer are capped at $15,000 total when you move to live capital, and Daily live-bonus eligibility is unconfirmed in its current dedicated policy. This guide covers each of those trade-offs in detail so you can decide if the daily rhythm is worth them.
How Does the LucidDaily Evaluation Work?
The LucidDaily evaluation is a one-time fee purchase with no monthly rebilling and no time limit. You trade a simulated account, hit the profit target without violating the Maximum Loss Limit, keep your largest day within the consistency check, and you qualify for a funded account. Four sizes are available.
| Account Size | Profit Target | Maximum Loss Limit | Eval Consistency | Max Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25K | $1,250 | $1,000 | 40% standard; paid 50% option | 2 minis / 20 micros |
| $50K | $3,000 | $2,000 | 40% standard; paid 50% option | 4 minis / 40 micros |
| $100K | $6,000 | $3,000 | 40% standard; paid 50% option | 6 minis / 60 micros |
| $150K | $9,000 | $4,500 | 40% standard; paid 50% option | 10 minis / 100 micros |
Daily’s evaluation targets and initial loss limits match Flex and Pro. Consistency is a separate purchase choice: 40% is standard and mathematically needs at least three profitable days; the paid 50% option can permit two. Older Daily evaluation and consistency pages describe the 50% configuration, including a variable cushion. That example does not establish a cushion or a fixed dollar allowance for the 40% standard.
The consistency rule applies to the evaluation only. There is no consistency check on funded LucidDaily accounts and none on live accounts either. If you have read my breakdown of Lucid's consistency rules, the evaluation and funded percentages are separate conditions.
Lucid’s evaluation page advertises activation within 5–30 minutes of meeting the target, with no activation fee. That is a published service claim, not a measured activation time from my own Daily account. The dashboard’s separate 5–30-minute objective-update interval is not the activation process.
Choose the purchased drawdown configuration before trading. EOD moves the loss floor from session closes; intraday can move it with open profit. My trailing drawdown explainer explains both. Lucid’s November 1 announcement extends the EOD/intraday choice to evaluation and funded; use the configuration in your account record.
Which LucidDaily Configuration Are You Buying?
Daily has three purchase choices: DLL ON or OFF, 40% standard or optional 50% evaluation consistency, and EOD or intraday drawdown. Together they give eight configurations. Settings cannot be changed on an active account; a different configuration requires a new purchase. The November 1 announcement applies the drawdown choice to funded as well as evaluation, although older Help Center pages have not caught up.
Toggle one: Daily Loss Limit on or off. With DLL ON, the fixed daily cap applies in evaluation and funded. The current customization page describes a lower purchase price and permits multiple intraday requests when every request qualifies. DLL OFF removes the daily cap in both phases and uses the regular end-of-day request schedule. The old September price/reset example below does not establish today’s configured total.
Drawdown and consistency choices. EOD or intraday determines how the loss floor moves in evaluation and funded under the announced current option. Separately, 40% is the standard evaluation-consistency setting; 50% costs extra. These purchase choices do not add a funded consistency rule.
The following purchase and reset tables retain PTV’s September 16, 2026 snapshot. They distinguish the recorded intraday/EOD examples and include the then-advertised 40% VIBES calculation. The separate limited-time DLL-ON offer is historical. Current DLL and consistency settings can change the price; compare the selected configuration and final total at checkout. Lucid’s platform page lists both CQG and Rithmic routes across account types. Use the feed actually issued to your account.
| Account Size | Intraday list | Intraday with VIBES | EOD list | EOD with VIBES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25K | $115 | $69 | $137 | $82.20 |
| $50K | $156 | $93.60 | $185 | $111 |
| $100K | $264 | $158.40 | $314 | $188.40 |
| $150K | $367 | $220.20 | $436 | $261.60 |
| Price key | Historical list prices and calculated 40% VIBES examples from September 16, 2026. DLL, consistency options and current offer eligibility can change the payable total. One-time fee, no monthly rebilling. | |||
Resets follow the same logic. If you breach the eval and want to restart, the reset fee depends on your drawdown configuration, and the DLL-off add-on applies to resets as well: $20 at $25K, $25 at $50K, $45 at $100K, and $55 intraday or $60 EOD at $150K (September 16, 2026 reset matrix).
| Account Size | Intraday Reset | EOD Reset |
|---|---|---|
| $25K | $65 | $80 |
| $50K | $90 | $110 |
| $100K | $150 | $185 |
| $150K | $215 | $260 |
DLL-on reset fees, checked September 16, 2026. DLL-off fees differ; confirm your dashboard total.
On pricing strategy: think about which configuration matches your trading before defaulting to the cheapest. If your losing days tend to spiral, the DLL is a feature, not a tax, and it saves you money at checkout too. For how discounts apply across Lucid's plans, see my Lucid Trading discount guide. Confirm offer eligibility and the final total for the chosen configuration.
What Are the LucidDaily Funded Account Rules?
Funded Daily has no consistency percentage or minimum qualifying-day count. The 90/10 split and evaluation contract ceilings carry over: 2 minis at 25K through 10 at 150K, with ten micros per mini. Requests still need the buffer, positive net progress and $500 minimum; DLL ON permits eligible intraday requests, while OFF uses the regular EOD request schedule.
Funded Daily follows the purchased EOD or intraday configuration under the November 1 announcement. With intraday selected, unrealized gains can raise the MLL during the session, so a retracement can reach a floor raised by profit you never closed. EOD moves the floor from session closes instead. Both enforce the active MLL while you trade.
The good news is that the trail does not chase you forever. Once your balance exceeds the Initial Trail Balance for your size, the MLL locks at your initial balance plus $100 and never moves again. From that point, the account behaves like a static drawdown account: you can only lose back down to just above your starting balance, no matter how high your equity runs.
| Account Size | Maximum Loss Limit | Initial Trail Balance | Locked MLL Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| $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 |
Hypothetical example on a 50K Daily account with intraday selected: your MLL is $2,000 and trails your real-time peak. Grow the balance past $52,100 and the loss line locks at $50,100 for good. Notice that $52,100 is also the payout buffer for the $50K account, so the drawdown locks at exactly the level that opens the payout door. Eligibility is not the same as a submittable request: the minimum payout is $500, so the balance has to reach $52,600 before you can actually send one. For the deeper mechanics behind trailing loss limits, my trailing drawdown explainer walks through every case.
If you configured DLL on at checkout, the same fixed daily loss values from the eval continue to apply on the funded account. If you configured DLL off, there is no daily cap at any stage. Either way, the MLL above is the hard floor.
How Does the Daily Loss Limit Work on LucidDaily?
If DLL ON was selected, reaching that daily limit pauses trading until the next session, provided the MLL has not already been reached. The DLL is a soft daily stop; the MLL remains a hard account boundary. DLL OFF does not remove the MLL.
| Account Size | Daily Loss Limit | Breach Type |
|---|---|---|
| $25K | $600 | Soft: locked out until next session |
| $50K | $1,200 | Soft: locked out until next session |
| $100K | $1,800 | Soft: locked out until next session |
| $150K | $2,700 | Soft: locked out until next session |
The amounts are fixed per size and identical in the evaluation and the funded stage. What the DLL buys you is a speed limit on losses, not a guarantee that the account survives. On the $50K, a $1,200 daily cap sits below the $2,000 Maximum Loss Limit, so an account at full buffer can take a maximum loss day and still be alive the next morning, and the forced lockout stops you taking a second one in the same session. That relationship changes as the intraday trail pulls the loss line up behind you: once the room between your balance and the MLL is smaller than $1,200, the MLL is the tighter of the two limits and the one that ends the account. Read the DLL as a lockout timer that caps how fast you can lose, not as a floor under your balance. My full Lucid Trading review compares how loss limits work across all Lucid plans.
DLL ON adds a soft daily stop and, under the current customization page, a lower purchase price and on-demand requests when eligible. OFF removes the daily cap and retains the regular EOD request schedule. Every request must still satisfy the buffer, positive-profit and minimum-amount rules. Choose the setting before purchase; it cannot be switched on an active account.
How Do LucidDaily Payouts Work?
Daily permits a request on a day when the payout conditions are met. DLL ON supports multiple eligible intraday requests; DLL OFF uses the regular EOD schedule. There is no fixed qualifying-day count, but every request still needs the protected buffer, positive net progress since the last payout and at least $500.
Condition one: your balance must be above the Buffer Balance. The buffer equals your starting balance plus the initial Maximum Loss Limit plus $100, and the buffer itself is never withdrawable. It is the cushion that later funds your live account drawdown, so it stays in the account permanently.
| Account Size | Buffer Balance | Withdrawable Amount |
|---|---|---|
| $25K | $26,100 | Everything above $26,100 |
| $50K | $52,100 | Everything above $52,100 |
| $100K | $103,100 | Everything above $103,100 |
| $150K | $154,600 | Everything above $154,600 |
Condition two: positive net profit since your last payout. Even one dollar of net progress since the previous withdrawal restores eligibility. Combined with the buffer rule, the practical math looks like this: on a $50K account sitting at $53,400, you could request up to $1,300, since everything above the $52,100 buffer is withdrawable. The minimum request is $500, and the maximum is simply your sim profit above the buffer. There is no per-request cap, which is a genuine structural difference from LucidFlex, where payout caps limit each withdrawal by account size.
Two operational details matter. First, requests are final once submitted. Second, if a trade drops your balance into the buffer before processing, the request may be denied, so the clean play is to request when you are flat. On timing: once approved, funds are deducted from the account within minutes and disbursed within Lucid's headline of 2 business days, though a WorkMarket transfer to an international bank runs 2 to 4 business days and the PayPal route longer.
There is one more number to know: the Maximum Daily Profit. Lucid caps how much sim profit a funded Daily account can book in a single day, and hitting the cap is not a penalty. It is a promotion, though the wording differs between Lucid's own articles: the LucidDaily payout article says a trader who meets or exceeds the daily amount is automatically moved live, while the LucidDaily live article routes the same trigger through a review pool and leaves every transition to the risk team. Read it as a trigger for review rather than an automatic promotion.
| Account Size | Maximum Daily Profit (Sim) | What Happens at the Cap |
|---|---|---|
| $25K | $6,000 | Triggers the live move, risk team confirms |
| $50K | $8,000 | Triggers the live move, risk team confirms |
| $100K | $10,000 | Triggers the live move, risk team confirms |
| $150K | $12,000 | Triggers the live move, risk team confirms |
For a 25K account, the $6,000 daily-profit threshold equals 24% of the nominal starting balance. That arithmetic does not predict results or establish automatic live placement. The risk team controls the move. The Lucid Trading payout rules guide.
Can You Trade News on a Funded LucidDaily Account?
Funded Daily prohibits holding positions or active orders in the restricted window around a listed event with High impact and USD currency. A violation is a hard breach.
Be flat with no active orders from one minute before through one minute after the qualifying high-impact USD event. Check the calendar source and time zone specified by Lucid, including copied accounts. The selected drawdown or DLL does not create a news exception.
Lucid's LucidDaily funded article documents this ban for the funded stage, while its general rules article lists red folder news on the LucidDaily as a hard breach without naming a stage at all. The evaluation case is therefore undocumented rather than exempt, and since a hard breach ends the account, the safe reading is to stay flat through red folder releases in the Daily eval too. Either way it is a real differentiator inside Lucid's lineup, since Lucid's other plans do not carry an equivalent hard-breach news rule. Treat the economic calendar as a required tool on this account. I keep a full breakdown of how Lucid handles news across plans in my news trading policy guide.
How Does the LucidDaily Live Transition Work?
LucidDaily's path to live capital is its own system, and it differs from the other plans in ways that affect how much sim profit you should leave in the account. Four things can put a funded Daily account into the live review pool: hitting the Maximum Daily Profit cap, accumulating significant lifetime payouts, exceptional sim performance, or having been live before.
When the move happens, your buffer balance becomes your starting live drawdown. That is why it was never withdrawable: the $1,000 to $4,500 sitting under your buffer converts into the loss cushion on your live account, matching the funded MLL for your size. Sim profits above the buffer are paid out after broker KYC, but that final payout is capped at $15,000 total, regardless of account size or how many accounts you move with. Anything above $15,000 does not follow you to live. On a daily-payout plan there is no reason to hoard balance, and the cap is Lucid telling you exactly that.
At transition, eligible funded accounts need at least one prior payout to receive a live account. The older Daily-specific page says zero-payout funded accounts close with an evaluation-fee refund; the newer general live policy conditions an ineligible funded account’s refund on at least 50% of its drawdown remaining. Confirm which terms Lucid will apply rather than counting on a refund. Daily settlement uses the previous closing balance; its page says P&L from the transfer session is excluded.
Live LucidDaily accounts start at $0 with the buffer-funded loss allowance, daily payouts, EOD drawdown, no daily loss limit and no consistency requirement. The MLL locks at $100 once live profits reach the starting live drawdown, or when an earlier payout is requested. The Daily-specific live page no longer states a bonus exclusion, but does not confirm Daily bonus eligibility. Confirm that eligibility with Lucid before counting a bonus as expected proceeds. The standard cooldown after a live breach is two weeks. The household sim restriction and ban on live hedging also apply. The live-transition guide explains the wider process.
Where Does LucidDaily Fit in the Lucid Lineup?
LucidDaily slots into the lineup as the payout-speed specialist. Here is the honest three-way comparison against the two plans most buyers cross-shop, with LucidDirect set aside since instant funding is a different conversation.
| Feature | LucidDaily | LucidFlex | LucidPro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eval consistency | 40% standard; optional 50% add-on | 40% standard; optional 50% add-on | None (1-day pass possible) |
| Eval drawdown | EOD or intraday (your choice) | EOD trailing | EOD trailing |
| Eval Daily Loss Limit | Optional (on or off) | Optional (ON/OFF at checkout) | Optional (ON/OFF at checkout) |
| Historical fee examples | See the dated September 16, 2026 purchase table above and the dated discount examples. Current prices need matching DLL, consistency and drawdown settings. | ||
| Funded drawdown | Intraday or EOD, selected at checkout | EOD trailing | EOD trailing |
| Funded consistency | None | None | 40% |
| Payout cadence | Daily requests, $500 minimum | 5 profitable days per payout ($100 to $250 minimum per day by size) | Any eligible day: cycle profit, consistency and buffer |
| Per-payout cap | None | 50% of profit up to $1,000 to $3,000 by size, fixed | Yes ($50K: $2,000, then $2,500 from payout 2) |
| Funded news trading | Hard breach ban | No equivalent hard-breach rule | No equivalent hard-breach rule |
| Payout buffer | Starting balance plus initial MLL plus $100 | None | Starting balance plus initial MLL plus $100 |
| Payouts before live | Trigger-based, no fixed count | Maximum 5; earlier review possible | Maximum 5; earlier review possible |
| Live bonus | Eligibility unconfirmed | Repeatable, conditional | Repeatable, conditional |
| Profit split | 90/10 | 90/10 | 90/10 |
Consider Daily when eligible daily requests matter more than a qualifying-day cycle. There is no funded consistency test, but you still need the payout buffer and positive net progress. Compare the purchased EOD or intraday drawdown and the high-impact USD news restriction.
Consider Flex for its funded rules. My Flex experience includes EOD trailing: open profit does not raise the floor before the close, but touching the active MLL can still breach during the session. Daily now also has an announced EOD option, so the useful comparison is Flex’s five qualifying days and request cap versus Daily’s buffer, news window and request schedule. The full head-to-head is in my LucidFlex vs LucidDaily comparison, and the deep dive on Flex itself is here.
Pick LucidPro if the evaluation is your bottleneck. Pro has no eval consistency rule at all, and a one-day pass is possible; you pay it back later with a 40% funded consistency rule, cycle profit goal and protected payout buffer. If you are a burst trader who prints in clusters, Pro's eval suits you and Daily's eval consistency check will annoy you. See my LucidPro vs LucidFlex vs LucidDirect comparison and the LucidPro vs LucidDaily comparison for the numbers.
Before choosing Daily as a first Lucid account, check that you can manage the selected drawdown configuration and remain flat during the high-impact USD news window. Intraday trailing adds sensitivity to open-profit retracements; EOD does not remove the active MLL or the news restriction. The Lucid review's recommendation by trader type compares the plans by trader needs. The evaluation targets and initial loss allowances match the other evaluation routes; consistency and configuration choices still matter.
Can You Manage LucidDaily From the Lucid Mobile App?
Yes, and the pairing is natural: a plan built on daily payout requests benefits more from a phone-based workflow than any other Lucid account. Lucid launched the Lucid Trading App in July 2026, the same month LucidDaily arrived. It is free, published by Lucid Trading Group LLC, and available on the iOS App Store (iOS 15.1 or later) and Google Play. Lucid's CEO has called it the first ever prop firm app; that is Lucid's claim, but the app itself is real and functional, sitting at 4.6 stars from 88 App Store ratings as of late July 2026.
The feature set maps almost line for line onto how a Daily account is actually run: a real-time account dashboard, multi-account management, payout requests and certificate downloads from the phone, push notifications for payouts, funded activations, case updates, and technical announcements, plus support chat and access to your trading credentials. For a LucidDaily trader the loop is tight: finish the session flat, check the dashboard against your buffer, submit the payout request from your phone, and get the push when it is approved. One oddity: the App Store description still lists Pro, Flex, Direct, and Maxx, copy that predates the Daily launch, so do not be confused when the store listing does not name LucidDaily explicitly.
The bottom line
LucidDaily fits traders who can meet its buffer and news rules and want requests on eligible days without a funded consistency test or fixed per-request cap. Compare the purchased EOD or intraday drawdown rather than assuming that frequent requests require intraday. The final price depends on the selected configuration and offer. Use my full Lucid Trading review for the firm-wide assessment, then use the Flex vs Daily and Pro vs Daily comparisons for the payout, drawdown and configuration tradeoffs.
LucidDaily FAQ
Quick answers to the questions traders ask most about LucidDaily. For the broader firm-wide list, my Lucid Trading FAQ covers everything from platforms to billing.
Can you change your drawdown or DLL choice after checkout?
No. The eight combinations of DLL, evaluation consistency and drawdown are selected at purchase and cannot be changed on an active account. Keep the order record for the account you received.
Does LucidDaily pay a live account bonus?
The current Daily-specific live page no longer states a bonus exclusion, but does not confirm Daily bonus eligibility. Confirm that eligibility with Lucid before counting a bonus as expected proceeds. The standard live policy reviewed on October 19, 2026 describes repeatable bonuses conditional on live profit and 20 qualifying trading days. Daily also has a separate $15,000 total cap on simulated profit settled at transition; its buffer cannot be withdrawn.
Does the code VIBES work on LucidDaily accounts?
PTV’s dated offer record advertises 40% VIBES savings on eligible Daily purchases. Choose the full configuration first, then check offer eligibility and the final total. The September examples above are historical and do not establish today’s price for every option.