Prop firm consistency rule calculator
This prop firm consistency rule calculator checks whether your best trading day breaks the rule before you request a payout, and what closes the gap if it does.
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- Your best day
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- Consistency score
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- Status
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- Gap to compliant
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Prop firm consistency rules cap your best day at 30–50% of a basis
Every consistency rule asks the same question — was one day too large a share of the whole?
Firms disagree on what "the whole" means. Get the basis wrong and the percentage you compute is meaningless.
- Fixed profit target
- Your profit target, not what you have actually earned. Topstep works this way during the Combine — breaking it raises the target rather than failing the account.
- Total profit since last payout
- Real profit made, checked when you request a payout. Apex: no single day at 50% or more of net profit since your last payout.
- Profit from winning days only
- The sum of your winning days, losing days ignored. FTMO’s Best Day Rule, on the 1-Step Challenge only.
Consistency rules punish a variable target — the 1:10 day most of all
Most strategies aim at something (a pool of liquidity, a previous high, the far side of a consolidation), so the target moves. I traded that way for years with ICT-style exits and my winners ranged from roughly 1:3 to 1:10. Under a consistency rule that spread is the problem, not the profit.
The 1:10 day is the worst of it. It feels like the best day of your month, and it is the day that raises the bar: every other day now has to be a 1:4 or 1:5 to pull it back under the cap. The huge trade does not move you toward the payout, it postpones it.
That is why the calculator reports the gap as additional profit needed rather than telling you to trade smaller. You cannot undo the big day, you can only dilute it.
I moved to a fixed 1:1.5 target. Fixed R produces winners of roughly the same size, which is the shape a consistency rule is built to reward — not a recommendation, just the trade-off worth knowing before you buy an account.
A consistency score under 30% clears every rule on the market
Your consistency score is your best day's profit as a share of whatever the firm measures it against. $900 against a $9,000 basis scores 10% — inside every rule on the market. $4,500 of that same $9,000 scores 50%, which breaches all of them.
Lower is safer, which catches people out — a score is normally something you want high. Here it measures concentration, so a high one says a single session carried the account. It moves for two reasons only: the best day grows, or the basis shrinks. You cannot undo a big day, which is why the calculator reports the gap as additional profit needed rather than telling you to trade smaller. More profit on ordinary days dilutes the outlier; nothing else does.
The consistency rule differs by firm: 30% at Earn2Trade, 50% at Apex
| Firm | Max day share | Measured against | Applies to |
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| Topstep | 50% | Profit target | Trading Combine |
| Apex Trader Funding | 50% | Total net profit since last payout | Funded (PA) payouts |
| FTMO | 50% | Total profit from winning days | 1-Step Challenge only |
| Earn2Trade | 30% | Total net profit | Evaluation only |
| The5ers | % |
Rules last checked July 2026. Always confirm against the firm's official documentation before trading — firms change consistency thresholds without much notice, as Apex did in March 2026. Earn2Trade links to our own page for that firm; FTMO's name is a referral link. Topstep and Apex are listed with no link and we earn nothing from them.
The calculator checks one day against the one basis you supply
It checks one best day against one basis figure you supply. It does not read your trade history, so if you are unsure which day was actually your largest, or whether the firm counts a "day" in your time zone or the platform's, the answer is only as good as the input.
It also assumes one version of the rule, at a current threshold. Topstep's Express Funded Consistency Path uses a different percentage and basis than the Combine rule this calculator defaults to, and Apex moved its cap from 30% to 50% in March 2026 with limited notice. Check which stage you are in, and confirm the percentage against the firm's help center, before a payout request depends on it.
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The consistency rule only bites at the payout, so start with what the payout is worth: prop firm payout calculator. What produced the uneven day is upstream — the trading expectancy calculator and the prop firm variance calculator show whether a variable target is your edge or your problem. The other rule that ends accounts before any of this: the drawdown calculator, and the one that prices the whole attempt, the challenge calculator.
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