No Consistency Rule: Why We Do Not Cap Your Best Day
FundedHive does not apply a consistency rule. Not on Classic, not on Pay From Profits, not on InstantGrowth. We also do not use equity-based drawdown. You can make your entire profit target in one trade on one day, and it counts.
That sentence is short. The reason it matters takes longer, because a consistency rule is the kind of condition traders normally meet at the worst possible moment: after the profit is made, when they ask to withdraw it.
What a consistency rule actually is
A consistency rule measures how evenly your profit was earned, and it can block a payout or a pass even when you never breached a loss limit.
The most common version works on your best day. If a firm sets a 30 percent consistency requirement and you finish an evaluation with $10,000 of profit, no single day may account for more than $3,000 of it. Earn $6,000 on the day the payrolls print lands and you have not failed anything, you have simply become ineligible until you go back and grind out enough smaller days to dilute the good one.
Read that again, because it is genuinely strange. The rule punishes you for the outcome every trader is trying to produce. You are asked to keep trading, on an account you already passed, purely to make your equity curve look a particular shape.
The variants you will meet
Consistency arrives under several names, and it is not always in the section of the rulebook you would expect. These are the shapes worth knowing before you buy anything.
| Rule | What it measures | Where it bites |
|---|---|---|
| Best day cap | Your largest profit day as a share of total profit | One strong session on a news release can freeze a payout you already earned. |
| Lot size consistency | Variation in position size across trades | Scaling up on a high conviction setup reads as inconsistency, even when risk stayed inside every limit. |
| Minimum trading days at the funded stage | How many days you traded before withdrawing | Forces trades you did not want to take, on a live account, to unlock your own money. |
| Equity-based drawdown | Loss measured against your highest equity, not your balance | The limit follows your profits upward, so the better you do, the less room you have. |
The last one deserves its own note. Equity-based or trailing drawdown is not usually presented as a consistency rule, but it does the same job: it constrains the shape of your curve rather than the size of your losses. Every dollar you make quietly raises the floor beneath you. A trader who goes up 4 percent and then gives back 3 percent can be breached, while a trader who never made the 4 percent in the first place is fine.
Why firms use them, stated honestly
These rules are not invented out of spite, and it is worth being fair about that.
A firm funding a trader wants evidence of a repeatable process, not one lucky position. A consistency rule filters out the account that passed on a single leveraged bet before the trader blows the funded stage a week later. It also slows withdrawals, which helps cash flow, and it reduces the number of accounts that pass at all.
Our disagreement is not with the goal. It is with using profit distribution as the measurement. A consistency rule cannot tell a disciplined trader who had one excellent day apart from a reckless one who got away with it, because it only looks at the payoff. Risk taken is the thing worth measuring, and it can be measured directly.
What we do instead
We limit risk at the moment it is taken, and then we stay out of the way. Our terms put it plainly: no consistency score on any FundedHive account, and no equity-based drawdown on our challenges, with no restrictions on lot size distribution or trading frequency.
What governs a Classic evaluation instead is a short list of numbers you can plan around from day one:
- Maximum loss per trade: 3 percent, calculated from the account balance at the moment the trade opens.
- Maximum daily loss: 5 percent of the account balance, tightening to 4 percent and 3 percent on the larger account tiers.
- Overall loss limit: 10 percent of the account balance.
- Profit targets: 8 percent in phase one, 6 percent in phase two.
- No time limit on either phase.
Three properties of that list do the real work. The limits are balance-based, so they are set from your balance rather than from a peak equity figure. They are static, so they do not trail your profits upward as you succeed. And they are known in advance, so nothing about your eligibility is decided after the fact.
One clarification, because the distinction gets blurred in marketing everywhere: balance-based describes how the limit is sized, not what can reach it. An open position running against you can bring you to a balance-based threshold on floating loss alone, and hitting it force closes every position on the account. What balance-based rules out is the trailing behaviour, where your own profits shrink the room you have left.
On InstantGrowth the same principle applies with different numbers: a 6 percent static balance-based maximum drawdown, a 2 percent maximum loss per trade, no daily loss limit at all, and rules that state profit can be earned any way as long as the trading rules are respected.
The one place we do assess behaviour
There is a part of our model that looks adjacent to this, and leaving it out would make this article a sales page.
On Pay From Profits accounts, the system assigns a risk category after you pass, based on how you actually traded the evaluation. Low, Moderate, Medium and High. The thresholds are published: the Low category requires every trade to have had a stop loss, a maximum loss per trade under 1 percent, a maximum daily loss under 2 percent, and a maximum overall drawdown under 5 percent. The categories carry different funded fees, different leverage, and different stop loss requirements.
Two things separate this from a consistency rule. It measures the risk you took, not how your profit was distributed, and it never blocks a withdrawal. It sets the terms of your funded account, then you trade it.
Being direct about the cost: if you later exceed the risk limits of your assigned category on a funded account, the account is paused immediately, open positions are closed without prior notice, and resuming requires paying the fee difference for the higher category upfront. That is a real condition and you should price it in before choosing Pay From Profits over Classic.
What is still restricted
No consistency rule does not mean no rules. These are the ones that catch people, and they are worth reading before you trade rather than after.
- Bracketing high impact news. Trading through releases is permitted on every account type. Placing pending buy and sell stops close to price just before a release is a prohibited strategy under our terms. The distinction is the position you take, not the calendar.
- Arbitrage and latency exploitation. Price discrepancies between venues, tick scalping, hedge arbitrage and reverse arbitrage are all prohibited, as is any automation built to exploit pricing errors or platform gaps.
- Copy trading between funded accounts. Prohibited even when every account is yours. While one funded account holds a position in an asset, no other funded account you own or control may open a position in that same asset.
- Netting, not hedging. Positions on the same symbol combine into one net position, so opposing orders offset rather than sitting side by side.
- Scaling in is still one trade. Partial entries and averaging into the same instrument belong to a single trade, and one maximum loss per trade limit applies to the combined result.
- Minimum profitable days during the evaluation. Three days, each requiring 1 percent of the initial balance, and a day only counts while your balance is at or above the initial balance. There is no minimum day requirement at the funded stage.
That last point is the closest thing we have to a pacing requirement, and it applies to the evaluation only. Once you are funded, nothing obliges you to trade before withdrawing.
Questions to ask before you buy anywhere
Including here. Any firm worth your money can answer these in writing, from its terms rather than its landing page.
- Is there a consistency or best day rule, and what is the exact percentage? If a page says no consistency rule, check whether the annex agrees.
- Is drawdown measured from balance or from peak equity? Trailing drawdown changes how you must size every trade you take.
- Are there minimum trading days at the funded stage? Days required before a withdrawal are a consistency rule wearing a different name.
- Is there a monthly cap on what I can withdraw? Ours has no monthly percentage limit, only a daily security cap on the smart contract.
- Which conditions are assessed after I have already made the profit? Anything decided afterwards is discretion, and discretion is where payouts go to wait.
Frequently asked questions
What is a consistency rule on a prop firm account?
A condition measuring how evenly profit was earned, most often as a cap on your best day as a share of total profit. It can delay a payout or a pass without any loss limit being breached.
Does FundedHive have a consistency rule?
No. Our terms state there is no consistency score on FundedHive accounts and no consistency or equity-based drawdown rules on our challenges, with no restrictions on lot size distribution or trading frequency.
Can I pass an evaluation with one trade?
The profit target can be reached in a single trade, provided it stays inside the maximum loss per trade, daily loss and overall loss limits. On Classic you would still need to complete the three profitable days required during the evaluation.
What is the difference between balance-based and equity-based drawdown?
Balance-based limits are sized from your account balance and stay where they are. Equity-based or trailing limits are measured against your highest equity, so they move upward as you profit and leave less room the better you trade.
Is there a limit on how much I can withdraw?
There is no monthly percentage limit. A daily security cap applies to the smart contract, currently $1,000 per day on Classic and Pay From Profits accounts and $2,000 per day on InstantGrowth. Profit above the cap stays available and can be claimed on following days.
The bottom line
A consistency rule judges the shape of your profit after you have earned it. We would rather set the risk limits clearly at the start, publish the numbers, and then let you trade the way you actually trade.
The full rules are in our FAQ and the applicable product annexes, and every payout we have made is recorded on chain on our transparency page. New traders can start with the code WELCOME25 for 25 percent off.
Trading involves risk and profits are not guaranteed. FundedHive provides a simulated evaluation environment and is not a broker. Account objectives, risk limits, risk categories and payout conditions are governed by our terms and the applicable product annexes, which prevail over any summary on this page. Rules described here reflect our terms effective January 2026 and can change. Competitor rule types are described generically and vary by firm, so check the current terms on each firm's own site.