Consistency Rule
A rule requiring that no single trading day accounts for more than a set percentage of your total profits.
Definition
A consistency rule prevents traders from passing a challenge or earning a payout based on one outsized lucky day. The most common form caps any single day's profit at a percentage (typically 30–50%) of your total account profit. If you've made $5,000 total and the rule is 30%, no single day can account for more than $1,500 of that.
Example
With a 50% consistency rule on a challenge account: if your total profit is $8,000, your best single day cannot be more than $4,000. If one day you made $5,000 and then lost $1,000 across all other days, your best day ($5,000) exceeds 50% of total profit ($4,000), and you fail the consistency rule even though you hit the profit target.
Why It Matters
Consistency rules filter out traders who got lucky on a single trade and favour those with repeatable, sustainable strategies. They can catch traders who use large position sizing on news events. Always check whether the rule applies to challenge phase, funded phase, or both.
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Related Terms
Profit Target
The percentage gain a trader must hit to pass a challenge phase — typically 6-10% in phase 1 and 4-5% in phase 2.
Evaluation Challenge
The paid skills test a trader must pass to earn a funded account — typically one, two, or three phases with profit targets and drawdown rules.
Funded Account
The trading account granted after passing the evaluation — almost always simulated, with real profit splits and real payouts.
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