A prop-firm rule limiting how much of your total profit can come from a single day, typically 30% to 50%, to discourage one-shot gambling.
If your best day exceeds the allowed share of total profit, you cannot pass or withdraw until you have earned enough on other days to bring the ratio down. It penalizes a trader who makes the whole target on one lucky trade.
Some rules also cap position size relative to your usual size. Check whether the rule applies to the evaluation, the funded-account, or both.
Example: total profit $5,000 with a 40% consistency rule means no single day can exceed $2,000. A $3,000 day requires you to reach $7,500 total before it counts.
Original diagrams for the ideas on this page. Illustrative, not real market data.
Risk and reward on one trade. One trade on a price scale: the entry sits 2.00 points above the stop and 6.00 points below the target, so the shaded reward band is three times the risk band. The ratio compares what is lost if the stop is hit with what is gained if the target is reached.
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