In November 2025 a trader hit the profit target at a well-known futures firm and was refused anyway. One trade had produced close to 70% of that day's profit, and the evaluation was rejected for inconsistent profit distribution.
Nothing about that outcome was hidden. It was in the rules the whole time. It was simply never read, because a consistency clause looks like boilerplate until the moment it costs you an account.
What the rule is for
A firm pays rewards out of a reserve. That reserve is sized against traders who produce repeatable results, because those are the ones the model is built on.
One enormous trade proves very little. It could be an edge; it could be a single leveraged bet that happened to land. A consistency rule is the crude but honest way of asking: would this result show up again next month?
The consistency rule does not exist to stop you being paid. It exists to make sure the reserve is still there when the next trader asks.
Two different rules wearing the same name
This is where most confusion starts, because two mechanics are both called “consistency” and they punish opposite behaviour.
| Version | What it measures | Who it catches |
|---|---|---|
| Best day | Your most profitable day against total profit | Traders who make it all in one session |
| Best trade | Your largest single winning trade against total profit | Traders who make it all on one position |
A scalper with forty small trades in one strong session can fail a best-day rule while passing a best-trade rule comfortably. Someone who holds one large swing position can do exactly the reverse. Reading the wrong one is worse than not reading either, because it produces false confidence.
How ours works, with the numbers
Ours is the best-day version. It is measured on your most profitable trading day, on closed profit: every trade of the same day is added together, and only profitable days count. The thresholds are 40% on The Builder, 33% on The Sprinter, and 25% on The Starter, calculated against total positive net profit for the evaluation or for the relevant payout period.
Take a Builder evaluation that has produced $8,000 of net profit, of which the best single day made $5,000.
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Total net profit | $8,000 |
| Best trading day | $5,000 |
| Share of total | 62.5% |
| Builder threshold | 40% |
| Status | Above the threshold, not yet eligible |
Now the part that surprises people. You do not fix this by giving anything back. You fix it by continuing to trade until total profit is large enough that the $5,000 day falls under 40% of it. Here, total profit needs to reach $12,500.
Being above the threshold is not a breach
On our terms, this matters more than the percentage itself. Exceeding the consistency threshold does not confiscate profits, does not close the account, and is not a breach. It means the evaluation is not yet complete, or the payout request is not yet eligible. You keep trading, subject to every other rule.
Your live consistency score sits in the dashboard, so you can see exactly where you stand before requesting anything. It should never be a discovery.
Trading under it without thinking about it
- Check which version applies before you buy. Best trade or best day. One line in the rules, and it changes which style is penalised.
- Spread a strong run over several sessions. Taking part of a move today and the rest tomorrow puts the same profit on two days instead of one, which lowers your best day without lowering your total.
- Do not chase the threshold with a huge trade. Trying to grow total profit fast, with size, is how a consistency problem becomes a drawdown problem.
- Look at the score before requesting, not after. A request that is not eligible costs nothing on Builder and Starter, but on a funded Sprinter it costs a warning.
- Remember the 1% floor. A payout request needs at least 1% net profit on the initial balance, independently of consistency.
The honest summary
The consistency rule is not a trap, but it is a rule that rewards a particular shape of results, and it is invisible until it bites. Every firm that has one publishes it; almost nobody reads it before paying.
Ours is on the programs page, with the threshold for each account and the exact calculation. It is worth two minutes now rather than a surprise on payout day.
