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Consistency rules and minimum days
You can be in profit and still fail the phase, because one day was too large or there were not enough days.
A profit target asks you to make a number. A minimum-day rule asks you to make it on enough separate days. A consistency cap asks you not to make too much of it on one day. Traders who pass challenges in a single news spike fail these clauses even though the profit target is met.
Minimum days
Northline’s 50k and 100k demonstration schedules ask for 4 qualifying days in each phase. A qualifying day there is at least 0.5% closed profit on the nominal balance. A day you spent flat, or a day you made 0.2%, does not count. The 200k version asks for 5. The extra day is part of the larger contract, not a rounding error.
‘A day with a closed profit’ and ‘a day with at least 0.5%’ are different tests. Sable’s Three-Step 100k, in this set, counts a day with a closed profit and states no minimum size. That is easier to tick and easier to game, which is why other firms add the percent. Read the qualifying-day line, not the word ‘day’.
The best-day cap
A 40% consistency cap means the best day’s closed profit cannot be more than 40% of total closed profit in the phase. If you need 8,000 and you make 5,000 on Monday, Monday is already 62.5% of the target and will remain above 40% until total profit is at least 12,500. You can overshoot the target and still be inconsistent. The cure is more profit on other days, not a request to ignore Monday.
- Record
- Northline Two-Step 50k and 100k
- Cap
- None found
- Minimum qualifying days
- 4, at least 0.5%
- Record
- Northline Two-Step 200k
- Cap
- Best day ≤ 40%
- Minimum qualifying days
- 5, at least 0.5%
- Record
- Keel Crypto Two-Step 100k
- Cap
- Best day ≤ 30%
- Minimum qualifying days
- 3, at least 0.25%
- Record
- Atlas One-Step 50k
- Cap
- Best day ≤ 45%
- Minimum qualifying days
- 4, at least 0.5%
- Record
- Atlas One-Step 200k
- Cap
- Best day ≤ 40%
- Minimum qualifying days
- 5, at least 0.5%
- Record
- Harborpath one-step futures
- Cap
- None found
- Minimum qualifying days
- None found
What the clause often fails to say
Does a day that breaches the cap get removed, or does it fail the phase? Do losing days count in the denominator? Is the cap checked only at the target, or every day? Northline’s 200k record notes that the remedy is not fully spelled out. Where the text stops, the unknown stays on the record. Do not fill it with the interpretation you prefer.
A maximum duration is a third way to fail
Sable’s three-step demonstration gives each phase 30 days. You can be inside the loss limits, short of the target, and fail the clock. The text does not describe that failure as a free reset. A missing reset price means the cost of another attempt is unknown, which is the correct number to plan with: unknown, not ‘another 349’.