LucidDaily Account Explained: Rules, Prices, Payouts (2026)

LucidDaily is Lucid Trading's fourth purchasable account type, launched in July 2026. It is built around one core promise: daily payout requests once you are funded, with a $500 minimum per request, no per-request cap, and no consistency rule after the evaluation. The eval uses the same profit targets and Maximum Loss Limits as LucidPro and LucidFlex, but you customize it at checkout: end-of-day or intraday trailing drawdown, and a Daily Loss Limit toggled on or off. Funded accounts always run intraday trailing drawdown, and trading through red folder news is a hard breach. Sizes run from $25K to $150K, list prices start at $100 for the cheapest configuration, and code VIBES takes 40% off at checkout. The profit split is 90/10 in your favor.

That is the short version. The long version is what this guide is for: every evaluation number, all four checkout configurations with exact list prices, the funded drawdown lock mechanics, the payout buffer math, the news trading ban that catches people off guard, and the live transition rules that differ from every other Lucid plan. Lucid now sells four purchasable account types: LucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDaily, LucidDirect, plus the earned LucidMaxx status. LucidDaily is the newest of them.

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.

To understand why that matters, look at what the other plans ask of you. LucidFlex requires five profitable days before each payout and caps each request at 50% of profit up to $1,000 to $3,000 by account size, with a maximum of five payouts per account. Lucid's Flex payout article calls what follows automatic, while its live-structure article calls payout 5 the maximum payout level rather than a guaranteed route and leaves every live transition to the risk team, so a Flex trader should plan for a review at payout 5 rather than a guaranteed live account. LucidPro runs on 3-day payout cycles (that cadence comes from Lucid's pricing page; the help center documents the minimum profit goal and the 40% consistency check per cycle, but no cycle length) and enforces that 40% consistency rule on funded accounts, which arithmetically needs at least three contributing days per payout. LucidDaily removes all three of those frictions at once: no minimum profitable days, no funded consistency check, no per-request ceiling. If your account is above its payout buffer and you are net positive since your last withdrawal, you can request money that same day.

Nothing is free in prop firm design, though, and LucidDaily pays for its payout speed in three places. First, funded accounts always run intraday trailing drawdown, which is stricter than the EOD trailing used by Flex and Pro. 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 LucidDaily does not carry the one-time live bonus the other plans offer. 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.

These targets and loss limits are identical to LucidPro and LucidFlex at every size, so Lucid is not making the Daily eval harder or easier on the core numbers. What differs is the consistency rule and the drawdown flexibility. The eval consistency check says your largest single day of profit divided by your total account profit must stay at or below 50%. Lucid builds a cushion into that check: it is measured against your actual accumulated profit, not a fixed dollar line. On the $50K account, for example, a largest day of roughly $1,560 can still clear the check even though a strict half of the $3,000 target would be $1,500. In practice, that cushion is what makes a two-day pass possible on LucidDaily.

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, you know this is the pattern Lucid favors: filter for steady trading during the eval, then get out of your way once real payouts are on the line.

Passing triggers what Lucid calls real-time activation: your funded account is provisioned within 5 to 30 minutes of hitting the target, and there is no activation fee. Buy once, pass at your own pace, and be funded the same session you finish.

One choice you make before any of this: the eval drawdown type. LucidDaily lets you pick end-of-day or intraday trailing drawdown for the evaluation at checkout. If you are not sure what separates the two, my trailing drawdown explainer covers the mechanics; the short version is that EOD only ratchets the loss line up at the close of each session, while intraday ratchets it in real time with your open profit. Whichever you pick for the eval, the funded account that follows is always intraday.

What Are the Four LucidDaily Configurations and What Do They Cost?

LucidDaily is the only Lucid account you assemble yourself. At checkout you set two toggles, they combine into four possible configurations, and your choices are locked in permanently once you buy. You cannot change the drawdown type or the Daily Loss Limit setting later, not on the eval and not on the funded account it becomes.

Toggle one: Daily Loss Limit on or off. With DLL on, a fixed daily loss cap applies to both the evaluation and the funded account, and the eval is cheaper. With DLL off, no daily cap applies to either stage, and you pay an add-on fee for the freedom.

Toggle two: eval drawdown type. Intraday trailing for the evaluation is the cheaper option; end-of-day trailing costs more. Remember this only shapes the eval, since funded LucidDaily is always intraday.

That produces a clear price ladder: intraday eval with DLL on is the cheapest configuration at every size, and EOD eval with DLL off is the most expensive. Here are the prices pulled from Lucid's live checkout in July 2026. Every cell shows the list price first and the 40% VIBES price second. One platform note: Lucid's help center states that all twelve listed platforms work with all Lucid account types, LucidDaily included. Rithmic is the default feed named on the LucidDaily checkout listing, and the feed your account was actually issued with is shown in your dashboard.

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: $15 at $25K, $20 at $50K, $35 at $100K, and $45 intraday or $50 EOD at $150K.

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. For LucidDaily specifically, code VIBES cuts every configuration above by 40%.

What Are the LucidDaily Funded Account Rules?

Once funded, LucidDaily strips the rulebook down to drawdown, contract limits, and the news ban. There is no consistency rule, no minimum trading days before payouts, and no scheduled payout window. The profit split is 90/10, with 90% to you. Contract limits carry over from the eval: 2 minis at $25K up to 10 minis at $150K, with the usual 10-to-1 micro equivalents.

The rule that defines the funded experience is the drawdown. Funded LucidDaily always runs intraday trailing drawdown, regardless of what you chose for the eval. The Maximum Loss Limit trails your account in real time, including open trade profit. That means a winner you let retrace can pull the loss line up behind you even though you never closed the trade. If you are used to EOD trailing on LucidFlex or LucidPro, where only the session close moves the line, this is the single biggest adjustment LucidDaily asks of you.

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.

Worked example on the $50K: 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?

The Daily Loss Limit is the gentlest rule in the LucidDaily rulebook, and it is worth understanding precisely because so many traders assume any loss limit ends the account. On LucidDaily it does not. Hitting the DLL is a soft breach: you are locked out of trading until the next session, and that is the whole penalty. Your account survives, your progress stands, and you come back tomorrow.

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.

Should you toggle it on? The checkout math says yes for most people: DLL on is cheaper, and the protection is real. The case for DLL off is narrow: strategies that need room for large intraday swings, managed at the position level, where a mid-recovery lockout costs more than the add-on. Just remember the choice is permanent for that account.

How Do LucidDaily Payouts Work?

This is the section LucidDaily exists for. On a funded Daily account you can submit a payout request on any day you meet the eligibility conditions. There is no fixed payout window, no minimum number of profitable days, and no waiting for a cycle to complete. Two conditions gate every request.

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.

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.

Note how high those caps sit relative to the accounts: $6,000 in a day on a $25K account is a 24% daily return. This is not a rule designed to throttle normal trading; it is a filter that fast-tracks outlier performance straight into live capital. For the full picture of how Lucid handles withdrawals across every plan, see my Lucid Trading payout rules guide.

Can You Trade News on a Funded LucidDaily Account?

No, and this is the rule most likely to end a funded LucidDaily account by surprise, so read this section twice. Trading through red folder news events is not permitted on funded LucidDaily accounts, and violating it is a hard breach. Not a soft lock, not a warning: the account is gone.

The mechanics: you must be completely flat from 1 minute before a red folder event until 1 minute after it. You cannot hold an existing position through the window, and you cannot open a new one inside it. A two-minute window sounds trivial until you remember what LucidDaily attracts: active intraday traders who are often in a position when a scheduled release hits. Flattening before red folder events has to become routine, because the DLL will forgive a bad session, but the news rule forgives nothing.

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.

The account bookkeeping is strict. You get one live account per eligible funded account, and each funded account must have at least one payout to qualify. Funded accounts with zero payouts are closed at transition, and Lucid refunds their evaluation cost. Moves are executed in the evenings after the 6 PM ET session report, using the prior day's closing balance; anything you make or lose during the session of the move is not counted.

Live LucidDaily accounts start at $0 balance with the buffer-funded drawdown behind them, and the rules actually relax: payouts remain daily, the drawdown switches to EOD, there is no Daily Loss Limit, and there is still no consistency rule. The live MLL locks at $100 once your live profits reach the starting live drawdown, or as soon as you take an early payout. Two more facts to file away: LucidDaily pays no one-time live bonus, unlike Lucid's other plans, which release $1,000 to $4,500 once live profits reach the Live Target for the size ($1,100 to $4,600). And if you blow the live account, the standard cooldown is 2 weeks before you can return. Household rules apply too: while one household member is live, others cannot trade sim, and hedging against a live account is a permanent ban under CME rules. The full walkthrough is in my live account transition guide.

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.

Reading that table, three trader profiles emerge. Pick LucidDaily if income rhythm is the whole point. If you trade for monthly bills or have been burned by consistency rules on funded accounts elsewhere, Daily is built for you. You accept intraday drawdown discipline and a hard news ban in exchange for withdrawal access every single day.

Pick LucidFlex if you need forgiveness more than speed. From my own funded Flex trading, the EOD drawdown is the feature that kept accounts alive through trades I would have lost under an intraday trail: the limit does not tighten before the close. The account still breaches the moment its balance reaches the Max Loss Limit, so the intraday move is not free. If your entries need room to breathe, Flex's slower five-day payout rhythm is a fair price for that. 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 and 3-day cycles. 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.

Beginners should think twice before making Daily their first Lucid account. The intraday funded drawdown punishes exactly the mistakes new funded traders make most, letting winners round-trip and averaging into losers, and the news ban adds a way to lose the account that has nothing to do with your P&L. My Lucid review's recommendation by trader type makes the case for starting elsewhere and graduating to Daily once your process is stable. If you do start with Daily, the eval preparation carries over from the other plans almost unchanged, since the targets and loss limits match.

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 is the most honest trade Lucid has ever offered: you give up drawdown forgiveness and news-window freedom, and you get your money out every day with no consistency rule and no caps. For disciplined intraday traders who flatten before releases and manage open profit tightly, that is a strong deal at a $100 to $436 list price with code VIBES applied at checkout. For everyone else, Lucid's lineup has a better-fitting door: start with my full Lucid Trading review for the firm-wide picture, including the 4.6 Trustpilot rating across 4,800+ reviews, then use the Flex vs Daily and Pro vs Daily comparisons to make the final call. Whichever account you pick, the eval math is the same: hit the target, respect the loss line, and let the funded rules decide where your edge earns the most.

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.

What is the LucidDaily account at Lucid Trading?

LucidDaily is Lucid Trading's fourth purchasable account type, launched in July 2026. Its defining features: daily payout requests once funded, no consistency rule after the evaluation, a customizable eval with optional Daily Loss Limit, and a 90/10 profit split. Sizes run from $25K to $150K.

How much does a LucidDaily account cost?

Prices depend on configuration. With VIBES, intraday evals with the DLL on cost $60 to $193.20 and EOD evals cost $73.20 to $231.60. With the DLL off, the VIBES ranges are $69 to $220.20 intraday and $82.20 to $261.60 EOD. These are one-time fees with no monthly rebilling.

Does LucidDaily have a consistency rule?

Only during the evaluation, where your largest profit day must stay at or below 50% of total profit, with a built-in cushion that makes a two-day pass possible. Funded and live LucidDaily accounts have no consistency rule at all.

What drawdown does LucidDaily use once funded?

Funded LucidDaily always uses intraday trailing drawdown, regardless of your eval choice. The Maximum Loss Limit trails your real-time peak, including open trade profit, then locks at initial balance plus $100 once your balance exceeds the Initial Trail Balance for your size.

How often can you request a payout on LucidDaily?

Daily. There is no fixed payout window and no minimum number of profitable days. You can submit a request on any day your balance is above the buffer for your size and you are net positive since your last payout.

What is the minimum payout on LucidDaily?

The minimum request is $500. The maximum is your sim profit above the Buffer Balance, which is starting balance plus initial Maximum Loss Limit plus $100. The buffer itself is never withdrawable.

Is there a cap on LucidDaily payout requests?

No per-request cap, unlike LucidFlex, where each payout is capped at 50% of profit up to $1,000 to $3,000 by account size. Your only ceiling is the profit above your buffer. Separately, hitting the Maximum Daily Profit of $6,000 to $12,000 by size triggers the move to live, with the risk team making the final call.

Can you trade news events on a funded LucidDaily account?

No. Trading through red folder news on a funded LucidDaily account is a hard breach that ends the account. You must be flat from 1 minute before the event until 1 minute after, with no holding through the window and no new entries inside it. Lucid's general rules article names the plan rather than the stage, so the evaluation case is undocumented rather than exempt: treat red folder releases as no-trade windows there too.

What happens if you hit the Daily Loss Limit on LucidDaily?

It is a soft breach: you are locked out until the next session and the account survives. The DLL only exists if toggled on at checkout, with fixed amounts of $600, $1,200, $1,800, and $2,700 by size, in both eval and funded stages.

Can you change your drawdown or DLL choice after checkout?

No. The four LucidDaily configurations are set at checkout and immutable afterwards, including on the funded account, so choose based on how you actually trade, not on price alone.

Does LucidDaily pay a live account bonus?

No. Lucid's other plans carry a one-time live bonus of $1,000 to $4,500, released once live profits reach the Live Target for the size ($1,100 to $4,600); LucidDaily pays none. Its transition also caps the final sim-profit payout at $15,000 total, and funded accounts with zero payouts are closed with the eval cost refunded.

Does the code VIBES work on LucidDaily accounts?

Yes. Code VIBES takes 40% off every LucidDaily configuration after you pick the account size, drawdown type, and Daily Loss Limit setting. The final prices range from $60 to $261.60.