What Is a Consistency Rule in Prop Trading?
Last updated: October 2026
A consistency rule limits how much of your total profit can come from a single trading day — typically 30-40%. It prevents passing evaluations on one lucky day.
How It Works
If your profit target is $3,000, no single trading day can account for more than 30-40% of that target (roughly $900-$1,200). If one day's profit exceeds the threshold, the excess either raises your profit target (BluSky's model) or requires additional trading days to balance it out.
Example
How to trade around it: set a daily profit target at roughly 25% of your evaluation target, stop trading once you hit it, and spread profits across multiple days. Not all firms enforce consistency rules — TradeDay drops it on funded, Alpha Futures Zero plan skips it entirely, and several firms never enforce one at all.
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