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Apex Consistency Rule Calculator
The 30% rule only applies on your Apex Performance Account. Enter your PA profit target and instantly see the maximum profit you are allowed to make in a single trading day — and the recommended safer cap.
Understanding Apex's 30% consistency rule
PA only — not during evaluation
The consistency rule does not apply while you are completing the Apex evaluation. You can have a single blow-out day that accounts for 90% of your evaluation profit and pass without any issue. The 30% cap kicks in only once you are trading on a live funded Performance Account and have submitted a payout request.
How the 30% is calculated
Apex looks at your total PA profit (all closed trades since your PA started) and checks whether any single calendar day made up more than 30% of that total. If your 50k PA profit target is $3,000, no single day can show more than $900 in realized profit ($3,000 × 0.30). The 25% recommended cap shown above ($750) gives you a safety buffer in case of partial fills or rounding at payout review.
Why the rule exists
The consistency rule is designed to prevent traders from getting lucky on a single highly-leveraged trade, withdrawing immediately, and repeating the cycle. Apex wants to see repeatable, distributed profitability — not a single spike. Meeting the rule shows you have a process, not just one good day.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does the Apex consistency rule apply during the evaluation?
No. The 30% consistency rule only applies on funded Performance Accounts (PA). During your Apex evaluation you can have a single day that accounts for any percentage of your total profit — there is no consistency requirement until you are trading on a live funded PA.
What happens if I exceed the 30% consistency rule on Apex?
If any single trading day accounts for more than 30% of your total PA profit target, your account will be flagged for review and your payout request may be denied. Apex does not automatically fail your account mid-session — but violating the rule is grounds for withholding payment. The safest approach is to cap your daily target at 25% of the profit target to leave a buffer.
How do I use a Pine Script to enforce the consistency rule?
You can add a daily profit cap variable to your Pine Script strategy that tracks realized P&L for the current session. Once the session profit hits 25–30% of your PA profit target, the script stops taking new entries for the rest of the day. See our Pine Script snippets library for a daily profit cap implementation you can drop into any existing strategy.