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You can hit the target and still be denied โ if one day did too much of the work.
The consistency rule is one of the most common reasons a 'passing' account gets denied a payout. It exists to filter out gamblers: traders who got to the target on a single lucky, oversized day rather than steady, repeatable trading.
It's not on your P&L as a loss, so it surprises people. Understand it up front and it's trivial to satisfy.
A typical consistency rule says no single trading day can account for more than a set share of your total profit โ commonly 30โ40%. If your best day is too large a fraction of the total, the account fails consistency even at or above the target.
Some firms also apply consistency to position size or to the gap between your biggest and average win. Always read the specific wording.
Prop firms make money from traders who are repeatably profitable, not from one-off lottery winners. A trader who hits the target with a single 5% day is statistically likely to give it all back on the funded account. Consistency is the filter.
Spread your gains. If the cap is 40%, make sure no day contributes more than that share of your running total โ which is easiest if you simply bank smaller, regular wins across more days.
If you have a single outsized day early, you now need more total profit (more smaller days) to bring that day back under the cap. Plan the whole evaluation around the rule rather than discovering it at payout time.
No. Many one-step and instant-funding firms have no consistency rule at all, while others enforce it strictly on both the evaluation and the funded account. The FundedWiki rulebook flags which firms have one and how strict it is.
Divide your best single day's profit by your total profit. If the result is above the firm's cap (e.g. 40%), you're failing consistency โ keep trading smaller, winning days to dilute that share.
Often yes โ and sometimes more strictly than on the evaluation. Check whether the rule (and its threshold) carries into the funded phase before you size up.
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