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The consistency rule and minimum trading days
Why one big day raises the target instead of failing you, how the effective target is computed, and what counts as a trading day.
Two rules decide how a profit is spread over time. The consistency rule limits how much of the profit one day may carry. Minimum trading days set how many days it must be spread over at least. Neither fails an account; both can delay a pass or a payout.
The consistency rule
On Classic 1-Step your best day may be at most 40% of the total profit at the moment you pass. Your best day is the largest net result of one trading day: closed profit and loss minus fees, plus or minus funding, with today's running result included. A losing day is never the best day.
If the best day is too large a share, the account does not fail. The target rises instead, to the profit at which the best day would be within the limit:
effective target = the larger of the target and best day ÷ maximum share, rounded up to the cent.
On a Classic 1-Step 10K account, a best day of $200 leaves the target at $800, while a best day of $500 raises the target from $800 to $1,250. The dashboard shows the effective target live, next to your best day's share.
2-Step has no consistency rule in the evaluation. Both models apply one to rewards on the funded account: your best day may be at most 40% of the profit in the payout window. If it is larger, the payout waits, and the dashboard shows the profit still needed. The window starts again after each payout.
Why firms use it
A target reached in one day can come from a single large position, which says little about how the account is managed day to day. A share limit asks for the profit to come from more than one day. Whether a firm checks it at the pass, at each payout, or both, is one of the details worth comparing.
Minimum trading days
A trading day is a UTC day, from
00:00UTC, with at least one fill. Days without a fill do not count, and there is no requirement to trade on consecutive days.
- Classic 1-Step: at least 3 trading days.
- 2-Step: at least 3 in phase 1 and 3 in phase 2, counted separately.
If you reach the target early, the phase waits until the days are met, and the floors still apply while it waits.
Putting the two together
Reaching the target over several days satisfies both rules at once. The drawdown simulator runs a sequence of days through the same functions the engine uses and shows the day a phase would pass. How to pass a crypto prop firm challenge puts these rules next to the loss limits.
Related
- Consistency ruleA consistency rule caps the share of the total profit that your best single day may carry; above it, the target rises or the payout waits.
- Minimum trading daysMinimum trading days is the number of separate days with at least one fill that a phase needs before it can pass.
- How to pass a crypto prop firm challengePassing is a budget: daily room, total room, trading days and the consistency rule. How to plan a challenge around each one, with our numbers.
- How payouts in bitcoin workA prop firm that pays in bitcoin: when you can request a reward on a funded account, how much it can be, what is checked and how it is paid.