Consistency Rules: What They Are and Where They Apply

A consistency rule caps how much of total profit may come from a single day or a single position. Published thresholds run from 15% to 50%. What varies more is the stage: evaluation, funded account, or only when a payout is requested — so a trader can pass, trade profitably, and meet the rule for the first time when asking to be paid.

The arithmetic is simple, and nothing in ordinary risk management pushes profit to be evenly distributed. One good day on a news release, one position that runs, and a passing account can sit outside a threshold that never bound it at any earlier stage.

Two firms mark the range. Funding Pips applies 15% on its Zero product at every payout. FTMO applies a 50% Best Day Rule on its 1-Step programme — published in the help centre rather than on the trading-objectives page. Between them sit the thresholds, the unit each is measured on, and the stage each attaches to.

This is one category in our overview of everything that can close a prop account; the term, and others carrying firm-specific definitions, are in the glossary.

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What the rule actually measures

The unit. Most rules cap a single day: the best trading day may not exceed X% of profit. A minority cap a single position or trade idea: The5ers applies 40% per position on its futures products, and Funding Pips’ Profit Concentration Policy is triggered by one idea producing more than 60% of a phase’s profit target.

The denominator. “50% of profit” is ambiguous until the firm says 50% of what. FTMO’s Best Day Rule is expressed against the profit from positive days, which is not net profit: a month with large losing days has a smaller denominator under net profit and a larger one under positive-days profit. Read the wording rather than assuming.

The stage. Evaluation, funded account, or the payout request. Firms combine unit, denominator and stage freely, and the stage is the one that produces the surprises.

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Where each firm applies it

All values as of 31 July 2026.

Where these were published: FTMO’s Best Day Rule sits in the help centre rather than on the trading-objectives page that carries the rest of the 1-Step objectives; Funding Pips’ are at help.fundingpips.com, alongside the conduct rules in its terms and conditions; Topstep’s are in its help centre, which also carries the payout policy the funded threshold is applied under; The5ers’ and Blueberry Funded’s are in their help centres; Apex’s and MyFundedFutures’ are on rules and plan pages; E8 Markets’ are on the firm’s own site. Blueberry Funded publishes two different answers in two of its own documents, and we report both. Where a cell says no stable URL is in our record, the parameter comes from the firm’s own published material but we did not capture a durable link.

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Worked example: an account that passes and then does not qualify

A $100,000 funded account. Over a month it produces $12,000 of profit across its positive days. The best single day contributed $5,400 — 45% of the total.

Nothing in that distribution breaches a drawdown limit. It fails some thresholds and passes others:

Getting back inside is arithmetic in one direction only: the best day’s share falls as total profit rises, and the total any threshold requires is the best day divided by the threshold. For a $5,400 best day, that is $10,800 at 50%, $13,500 at 40%, $15,429 at 35%, $18,000 at 30% and $36,000 at 15%. Reaching a 40% threshold from here means another $1,500 of profit, none of it on a bigger single day.

What the published terms say the consequence is, in the cases our research documents:

• Funding Pips’ Profit Concentration Policy states its consequence explicitly: an evaluation phase in which one trade idea produced more than 60% of the profit target does not fail the evaluation, but the resulting funded account requires four profitable days of at least 0.5% each before every reward request, for the life of the account.
• Funding Pips’ 35% test attaches to the On-Demand payout cycle, and the 15% test to Zero at every payout. On the same firm’s other cadences, the test is not published as applying.
• Alpha Capital publishes two mutually exclusive payout paths, chosen at registration: the on-demand path carries the 40% best-day test; the bi-weekly path carries none, and instead requires a $100 minimum and five trading days.
• Apex assesses its 50% figure on the funded account at the point of the payout request, not during the evaluation.

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Why the stage is the variable that surprises people

A rule tested on the evaluation is one you meet before you have earned anything: fail it, and you have failed a challenge fee.

A rule tested at the payout request applies to money already earned, on an account already passed. Apex assesses at the request; Funding Pips attaches its test to specific payout cycles; E8 Markets applies its Best Day rule as a payout condition; Alpha Capital applies its 40% only on the on-demand path. In each design the trader can complete the evaluation, be funded, trade profitably and meet the constraint for the first time with the profit already on the books.

The same question runs through other rules — leverage, weekend holding, news windows, per-trade caps and the base a daily loss limit is measured from all change at the funding boundary at one firm or another, as set out in what changes when you get funded.

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Quantified rules and discretionary provisions are not the same thing

A consistency rule of the kind tabulated above is quantified: a percentage, a unit, a stage. It can be computed from your own trade history before you request anything, and the gap to any threshold is arithmetic.

The unquantified provisions that also sit in these terms are a different category — clauses framed around the firm’s assessment of trading conduct, using language such as “unfair advantage”, “behavioural changes” or “account integrity”. Those cannot be computed in advance, because they contain no number to compute against. We set out what those clauses say, quoted from each firm’s own pages, in when a prop firm payout can be denied, and do not restate them here.

Fintokei sits on the line between the two categories. Our research records its 40% figure not as a standing rule applying to every account but as a measure applied to a subset of accounts, with a ±1% daily cap and reduced leverage, lifted after three to six months. A number that applies to some accounts and not others is quantified once it applies and unpredictable before it does — a different object from a threshold published for a whole product line.

One distinction gets blurred more than any other: a consistency rule constrains when and how much you can be paid, not what proportion of the profit is yours. The share is a separate published number with its own conditions, covered in what “up to 100% profit split” means.

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What the record answers, and what it does not

Every threshold in the table can be tested against your own statement before you request anything: best day divided by total profit, against a published percentage, on a stage you can identify in advance. Finding the number is the harder half of that. FTMO’s Best Day Rule is in the help centre, not on the trading-objectives page that carries the rest of the 1-Step objectives, and Blueberry Funded’s fees PDF and help centre answer the question differently. A rule you did not find is still a rule.

Where the arithmetic falls short, the remedy the terms describe has the same shape in every documented case: more qualifying days, or a payout route the test does not attach to.

Funding Pips states the consequence of its Profit Concentration Policy in full. Not every firm states one. Where a firm has not published what happens to profit that sits outside a threshold, we do not fill the gap.

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Written by the upme.com research desk. Every threshold above was read from the firm’s own published rules page, help centre, plan page or terms on 31 July 2026, and cells our research could not source to a stable URL are marked as such. Corrections to the address on our sourcing page. Nothing here is investment advice.

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