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Does FTMO Have a Consistency Rule?
The Simple Answer
Yes, on the 1 Step account. FTMO calls its consistency rule the Best Day Rule: your single best trading day must not exceed 50% of your Positive Days’ Profit, and it applies in both the evaluation and funded phases. The 2 Step account has no consistency rule.
Consistency Rule by Account Type
How the Rule Is Calculated
The consistency score is your single biggest trading-day profit divided by your total trading-day profit: (Highest Trading Day Profit ÷ Total Trading Days PnL) × 100. To stay eligible, the result must be at or below your account limit. Partial trades count on the day the position is fully closed.
Say your total profit is $8,000 and your single best day made $4,400. Your consistency score is 4,400 ÷ 8,000 = 55%. On the 1 Step account the limit is 50%, so at that moment you cannot withdraw yet. To fix it, your total profit needs to reach at least 4,400 ÷ 0.5 = $8,800, so you keep trading (without beating that $4,400 day) until your total clears $8,800 and the score drops to 50% or below.
Breakdown by Account Type
1 Step: 50% eval / 50% funded
On the 1 Step challenge the evaluation limit is 50% of each step’s profit, and the funded limit is 50% of the payout period’s profit.
2 Step: No rule
The 2 Step account has no consistency requirement. Your best day can be any share of total profit without affecting your eligibility.
FTMO measures the Best Day against your Positive Days’ Profit, the sum of your profitable days, rather than your net total profit.
What Happens If You Break It
Breaking the consistency rule at FTMO does not breach or reset your account. It is purely a payout gate: if your biggest day is too large a share of profit when you request a withdrawal, the payout is held, not cancelled, and your funded account stays active. You keep trading until your largest day falls back to the limit, then request the payout again. See the full FTMO payout methods and timelines for how withdrawals are processed.
How to Fix a Failing Score
The fix is dilution: keep making profit over your next trading days so your biggest day shrinks as a share of the total. Divide your best day by the limit as a decimal to find the total profit you need. For a 50% limit, a $4,400 best day needs total profit of at least $4,400 ÷ 0.5 = $8,800. So you keep trading, without beating that best day, until your total clears $8,800 and the score drops to 50% or below.
Final Comments
FTMO does not run a separate consistency rule; it builds one into its Trading Objectives as the Best Day Rule on the 1 Step account, capping your best day at 50% of your Positive Days’ Profit in both the challenge and funded stages. The 2 Step account has no such rule. Go over it and nothing breaches; you keep trading until your best day falls back within half of your profitable-day total.
Consistency is just one funded-phase rule. If your strategy trades around releases, check whether news trading is allowed at FTMO before you scale up.
FAQ
Does FTMO have a consistency rule?
Yes, on the 1 Step account. FTMO calls it the Best Day Rule: your best trading day cannot exceed 50% of your Positive Days’ Profit, in both the evaluation and funded phases. The 2 Step account has no rule.
What is FTMO’s consistency percentage?
It is 50% on the 1 Step account. Your single best day may not be more than half of your Positive Days’ Profit. The 2 Step account has no consistency requirement.
Does the Best Day Rule apply during the evaluation?
Yes. On the 1 Step account it applies in both the evaluation and the funded phase. The 2 Step account has no Best Day Rule in either phase.
What happens if my best day is too large?
Nothing breaches. You keep trading and earning profit until no single day represents more than 50% of your Positive Days’ Profit, then you can pass or withdraw.