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Section: Why this rule exists
− The minimum trading day requirement exists so that a funded account demonstrates real, repeatable trading rather than a single lucky outcome. Making effectively your entire payout on one trade, or one oversized burst, and then placing only token trades to clock the remaining minimum days is a gamification of that requirement and is not accepted. In the same way a challenge may not be passed with one trade carrying more than 90% of the target, a funded payout may not be built almost entirely on a single position with the minimum days padded out afterward.
− We expect the profit on a funded account to come from a genuine discretionary process across your qualifying days. Accounts where nearly all of the profit comes from one trade, followed by minimal or placeholder activity to satisfy the day count, will prompt a review before any payout is released. As part of that review we will look at whether the same pattern has been used across your other simulated funded accounts, and we will reach out to you so you can share context before a final decision is made.
+ Why this rule exists
+ The minimum trading day requirement is designed to confirm that a funded account is the product of a real, repeatable trading process, not a single fortunate outcome. A trader who earns almost their entire payout from one trade, or from one oversized burst of activity, and then places only token trades to fill out the remaining required days has not demonstrated the kind of consistent decision making the funded program is meant to reward.
+ This same principle carries into the funded stage. A payout should reflect profit built across a meaningful number of qualifying days of genuine trading, not one outsized position followed by placeholder activity used only to satisfy a day count.
+ We want to be clear that this rule is not about penalizing a great trade. Traders are allowed to have a standout day. What we are checking for is whether that standout day sits inside a broader pattern of real trading, or whether it is the entire pattern, padded out afterward with trades that carry no meaningful risk or intent.
+ How concentration is measured
+ At the time a payout is requested, we look at what share of the account's total profit came from its single best trade. Accounts across all sizes, 50k, 100k, and 150k, are held to this same standard. There is no fixed cutoff that automatically triggers a review. Instead, our team looks at the overall picture: how the profit is spread across trades, how the account's trading days compare in size and frequency, and whether the pattern looks like ongoing decision making or like one outcome followed by minimal activity meant to fill out the required days. Minimum qualifying trading days remain at 5 for the 50k and 100k tiers and 7 for the 150k tier.
+ Judgment is applied case by case rather than through a single hard number, because concentration alone does not tell the whole story. A trader who has one standout trade in an otherwise normal trading history is treated very differently from a trader whose entire payout rests on one position with nothing else of substance around it.
+ What happens during review
+ If an account is flagged under this rule, here is what a trader can expect:
+ - The payout is paused, not denied, pending review.
+ - We examine whether the same pattern (one dominant trade followed by minimal or token activity) appears on the trader's other simulated funded accounts, since a pattern repeated across accounts is treated differently from an isolated instance.
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▸Version 1July 26, 2026, 12:52 PM
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The minimum trading day requirement exists so that a funded account demonstrates real, repeatable trading rather than a single lucky outcome. Making effectively your entire payout on one trade, or one oversized burst, and then placing only token trades to clock the remaining minimum days is a gamification of that requirement and is not accepted. In the same way a challenge may not be passed with one trade carrying more than 90% of the target, a funded payout may not be built almost entirely on a single position with the minimum days padded out afterward.
We expect the profit on a funded account to come from a genuine discretionary process across your qualifying days. Accounts where nearly all of the profit comes from one trade, followed by minimal or placeholder activity to satisfy the day count, will prompt a review before any payout is released. As part of that review we will look at whether the same pattern has been used across your other simulated funded accounts, and we will reach out to you so you can share context before a final decision is made.
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