What is a prop firm consistency rule?

A common prop firm rule that caps how much of an account's total profit any single trading day is allowed to represent, commonly somewhere in a 20% to 40% range depending on the firm, before a payout gets approved. It exists to catch a trader who got lucky once, oversized, on a setup they can't repeat, not to punish a good day on its own.

How do I check my own trading log against a consistency rule before requesting a payout?

Paste one line per trading day with that day's net P&L, set the cap percentage your firm publishes, and this tool sums your net profit across every day, checks each profitable day's share of that total against the cap, and for any day over the cap shows the minimum amount to trim from that day, or the amount of additional profit elsewhere, that would bring it back into compliance.

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Would this daily P&L log actually get a prop firm payout held for a consistency violation?

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Paste Your Daily P&L Log

One trading day per line: date, net P&L for that day. Any order, any date format. This checks every profitable day against your consistency cap, not just the single-day example most firms use to explain the rule.

Your Result

Paste your daily P&L log and click Check Consistency to see whether any single day's profit would put a payout at risk, and by how much to fix it.

How this is calculated

Total profit is the net P&L across every day you pasted, losing days included — the same "total profit for the evaluation" the rule itself is measured against, not just the sum of your winning days.
For every day with a positive P&L, this checks that day's profit as a percent of total profit against your cap. A losing day can never be the flagged day, since it isn't contributing positive profit to flag.
Minimum trim needed solves for the smallest amount to remove from that single day so its share of the (now smaller) total profit lands exactly at your cap — not just the naive gap to the current total, since trimming the day also shrinks the total it's being measured against.
Or grow the total instead is the other side of the same fix: how much additional net profit, spread across your other days, would bring that day's same dollar amount down to exactly your cap's share of a larger total. Real traders usually get here by trading more days at a smaller size, not by editing history.
If your pasted log doesn't add up to a net profit yet, the consistency rule has nothing to measure — it only ever applies once an account is showing net profit for the period, which is also normally the point at which a payout becomes possible in the first place.

Risk & liability disclaimer: This tool applies a general consistency-rule calculation (single-day profit as a percent of total period profit) to the numbers you paste. It does not represent any specific prop firm's current published rule, does not know which firms measure consistency against gross profitable-day totals instead of net period profit, or over a rolling window instead of the full evaluation, and does not guarantee any payout outcome. Always confirm the exact current consistency rule wording with your own firm before relying on this. Trading Habits is not affiliated with any proprietary trading firm.

Would this daily P&L log actually get a prop firm payout held for a consistency violation?

Paste Your Daily P&L Log

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How this is calculated

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