Consistency is the rule traders ask about most, and the one most often misunderstood. It caps how much of your total profit can come from a single day. Unlike your loss limits, it can never fail your account.
What it checks
Your firm sets a consistency percentage. If one day accounts for more than that share of your profit, you are not consistent yet.
Go over that share on a single day and the rule holds you until your total profit grows enough for that day to fall back under the cap.
The exact calculation depends on settings your firm chooses, including a tolerance and a small leniency buffer, so treat that as the shape of the rule rather than your own numbers. Your account detail sheet shows your real figures.
It is never a violation
This is the part that catches people out. Being outside the consistency cap does not close your positions, does not lock your account and does not fail you. You keep trading exactly as before. What it holds back is the thing at the end.
On an evaluation it gates passing. You can reach your profit target and still not pass until consistency is satisfied.
On a funded account it gates payouts, measured across the current payout cycle rather than the account's whole history.
Passing an evaluation with consistency on
Three things have to be true at once:
Your total profit is positive.
You have enough profitable days. Unless your firm sets its own figure, this follows from the consistency percentage your firm sets.
No single day sits above the cap.
How to see what is blocking you
You are never left guessing. Open Trading Accounts and select your account. The detail sheet shows your consistency percentage together with what it is currently blocking: which day is over the cap, what the threshold is, and how many profitable days you still need.
The practical version
Consistency rewards a repeatable process over one outsized session. If you have had a very big day, the way through is not to stop trading. It is to keep adding steady days until that day is a smaller share of the total.