Consistency rules explained

On Runtiler, the rule compares two numbers:

• Your profit: your balance minus the account's size.
• Your best day: the most you made in a single day, from 00:00 to 00:00 UTC, since the step started (or since your last claim). Today counts.

The rule holds when the best day is at most the set % of the profit.

A day's result is your closed profit that day: every trade you closed, after its fees, minus any losses you closed the same day. A day with a $900 win and a $300 loss is a $600 day. A trade counts on the day you close it, so a winner held for a week lands all at once on its closing day.

In the challenge editor the options are 50%, 40%, 30% and 20%, or off.

A step that passes on one huge day doesn't say much about the trader. It often means one oversized trade went the right way, and the next one might not. A best-day rule asks for profit spread over several days, which is closer to how a steady trader works.

There's a quick way to read it. With a 40% rule, no day can be more than 40% of the profit, so you need at least three profitable days. With 50%, at least two. With 20%, at least five.

A $25,000 one-step challenge with an 8% target ($2,000) and a 40% best-day rule.

Passing

The best day is $700, which is 35% of $2,000. That's under 40%, so the rule holds. When you close Friday's last trade and nothing is open, the step passes, as long as the other conditions (such as trading days) are met too.

Not passing yet

You've reached the target, but the best day is $1,200: 60% of the profit. The step doesn't pass yet. The account carries on as normal, and nothing ends.

For a $1,200 best day to fit under 40%, the profit has to reach $3,000 ($1,200 ÷ 0.40).

The best day can't get smaller: it's in the past. The only way back inside the rule is a larger total, made on more good days.

In the example above, you need $1,000 more. Four days of about +$250 would do it. After them, the profit is $3,000 and the best day is still $1,200, exactly 40%, which is allowed. The flat close that takes you there passes the step.

Three things to keep in mind on the way:

• A losing day pushes the goal further. A −$300 day takes the profit to $1,700, and you still need $3,000.
• Another big day raises the bar. If Thursday makes +$1,500, that's the new best day, and the profit now needs to reach $3,750.
• Don't trade bigger to get there faster. The goal is more ordinary days, not one more large one. Keep your usual size.

A challenge can set the rule for passing a step, for claiming a reward, both, or neither. Its Rules tab says which.

To pass. Checked each time a trade closes and leaves nothing open, once the target is reached. The best day and the profit count from the start of the step, and both start again with each new step.

To claim. Checked when you claim on a funded account. The best day and the profit count since you were funded, or since your last claim, and both start again after each claim. If the rule isn't met yet, the claim waits; you keep trading, and the account stays funded. Your account shows the balance at which your best day fits and you can claim.

Instant challenges have no step to pass, so they can only use the rule to claim.

• Keep your size steady from day to day. Similar risk tends to give similar days, which is what the rule wants.
• After a big day, carry on as usual. You don't need to repeat it, and chasing another one is what usually breaks the plan.
• Watch long-held winners. A position held for several days lands its whole profit on the day you close it. If that would be a very large day, closing it isn't wrong, but know that you'll need more days after.
• Count your days early. If your challenge has a 30% rule and an 8% target, you'll need at least four profitable days. Plan for more.

The exact rule is in Consistency.