Check if your trading meets prop firm consistency rules for payout eligibility. Enter your total profit and best single day profit to see your consistency score.
enter total profit and best day
Total profit ($)
Best single day profit ($)
Consistency threshold (%)
Illustrative examples only, not guaranteed current — always verify with your firm directly: FTMO ≈30% · FundedNext ≈30% · The5%ers historically no fixed rule · MyForexFunds ≈30%
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Managing Concentration Risk
Spread profit across sessions deliberately
If you tend to make most of your money in one or two high-conviction sessions, that trading style is exactly what consistency rules are designed to catch — plan for it rather than being surprised at payout time.
Check before you request payout, not after
Run this calculation using your actual trading log before submitting a payout request — finding out you're inconsistent after the request is a wasted cycle.
A big winning day isn't inherently bad
The rule only becomes a problem if that one day dominates your total. The fix isn't "avoid big wins" — it's "keep earning on other days too" so no single day is too large a share.
How to Use the Consistency Calculator
Enter total profit — your total profit amount across all trading days so far in the challenge or evaluation period.
Enter best single day profit — the highest profit you made on any single trading day. This is the number prop firms scrutinise most closely.
Set consistency threshold — your firm's rule (usually 30%). FTMO, FundedNext, and MyForexFunds all use 30% as the standard threshold.
Check your score — the calculator shows your consistency percentage and whether you qualify for payout. If your best day is too high, it shows exactly how much more you need to earn to bring the score below 30%.
Simulate future days — the calculator shows how much additional daily profit (at various levels) would bring your consistency score into compliance.
💡 Strategic insight: If you have a big winning day early in the challenge, do not stop trading — you need to earn MORE on other days to bring your best-day percentage below 30%. Stopping after a big day is the worst thing you can do for consistency compliance.
Understanding the Consistency Rule
The consistency rule exists to prevent traders from getting lucky on one massive trade and passing a challenge on that single result. Firms want to fund traders who can generate profits consistently — not those who bet big once and happened to win.
📊 What It Measures
The percentage of your total profit that came from your single best trading day. If total profit is $5,000 and best day was $2,000, consistency score = 40% — above the 30% limit.
✅ The 30% Rule
Your best single day must not account for more than 30% of total profits. On a $100K account targeting 8% ($8,000), no single day should produce more than $2,400 in profit.
🔧 How to Fix It
You cannot remove the big day. The only fix is to earn more profit on other days to dilute the percentage. If best day = $2,000 and limit = 30%, total profit must reach at least $6,667.
⚡ Common Mistake
Traders hit a big day near the end of the challenge, think they've passed, and stop trading — only to be rejected for consistency. Always check this calculator before requesting evaluation.
Note that some firms (like The5ers) do not have a consistency rule at all. Always check your specific firm's terms. For firms that do have the rule, it applies to the funded account payouts — not just the challenge phase.
Building a Consistent Trading Record
Daily profit targeting
The most effective approach for consistency compliance is setting a daily profit target of 0.5–1% and stopping when you hit it. This naturally prevents any single day from dominating your results. It also prevents the emotional rollercoaster of chasing large gains on some days and suffering large losses on others.
Position size discipline
Inconsistency usually comes from variable position sizing — using small sizes on low-confidence trades and large sizes on high-confidence ones. While this feels logical, it creates inconsistent daily results. Professional prop firm traders often use identical position sizes on every trade, letting win rate and R:R create the edge rather than variable sizing.
Session selection
Trading fewer, higher-quality sessions produces more consistent results than trading every available hour. Choose your best performing time window — typically London open or New York open for forex — and focus exclusively there. Consistent session selection leads to consistent statistical outcomes.
🎯 The consistency mindset: Prop firms are funding you for life, not for one challenge. The consistency rule is actually training you to trade the right way — sustainably, with controlled daily exposure. Traders who master consistency in challenges tend to be the most profitable funded traders long-term.
The Consistency Formula
Consistency score = (Best single day profit ÷ Total profit) × 100. Passes if the score is ≤ the threshold.
Worked example
Total profit $1,000, best day $400, 30% threshold: score = 400/1000 × 100 = 40% — fails (exceeds 30%). Maximum allowed for a $400 best day would be a total of 400 ÷ 0.30 = $1,333.33, meaning $333.33 more profit from other days brings the score down to exactly 30%.
Avoid These Mistakes
Assuming every firm has the same rule
Thresholds and even whether a consistency rule exists at all vary by firm and change over time — don't assume the number you saw for one firm applies to yours.
Trying to "fix" a past day
A big day that already happened can't be reduced retroactively — the only real fix going forward is earning more on other days, or capping future single-day profit targets.
Checking consistency only at the very end
Run this calculation periodically through the evaluation, not just right before requesting payout — catching a concentration problem early leaves more room to fix it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the consistency rule?
Most prop firms require that no single trading day accounts for more than a certain percentage (usually 30%) of your total profits. This ensures you didn't just get lucky on one big day. Example: if your total profit is $5,000, no single day should have earned more than $1,500 (30%).
Why do prop firms have consistency rules?
Firms want to fund traders with sustainable, repeatable strategies — not traders who made all their profit on one lucky trade. Consistent daily profits demonstrate a reliable edge rather than gambling. This protects the firm from funding risky traders.
How do I fix a consistency rule violation?
The only way is to earn more profits spread across more days. If one day made too large a percentage, keep trading (within safe limits) to spread your profits more evenly. You cannot remove the big day — you can only balance it by earning more on other days.
References
📄 Your firm's official rules page
Whether a consistency rule applies at all, and its exact threshold, is set by each individual firm and changes over time — confirm directly with your firm rather than relying on any third-party figure, including this one.