Getting started
- What is the dashboard update frequency and what counts as “official”?
- Does PropXP have a time limit to pass?
- How do I log in to MT5 (server, password, “invalid account” fixes)?
- How fast do I get my account credentials after payment?
- Which program should I choose (Two-Phase vs One-Phase vs Instant Funding)?
- What is PropXP (and is it simulated or live trading)?
Passing & eligibility
- Is the consistency rule measured per phase or across both
- Do open trades carry into phase 2?
- Do limits reset between phases?
- Can I pass/claim with “one big day” (speedrun attempts)?
- How does the Consistency Rule work in PropXP?
- Is there a minimum trading days rule?
- How do profit targets work (balance vs equity)?
- What does “must be flat” mean?
Risk limits (the account-killers)
- What is the 1% max floating loss rule?
- Slippage & micro-breaches: “I only went over by $0.01”
- Do spreads/commissions/swaps count toward drawdown?
- What time does the trading day reset (timezone) and why it matters
- What is Max Loss (overall drawdown) and is it static or trailing?
- What is Max Daily Loss (daily drawdown) and how is it calculated?
Trading windows (news, weekend, market close)
- Market close, holidays, early closes: do rules change?
- Crypto weekend trading: is it treated differently?
- Weekend holding: allowed? (and what the Weekend Add-on changes)
- Overnight holding: allowed?
- News restricted window: what exactly is blocked (including pending orders)
- What are the consequences of trading restricted news?
- What is the exact definition of “red news” and what is restricted?
- Is news trading allowed? (Challenge vs Funded)
Allowed tools & strategies
- Is There a Minimum Holding Time
- Gap trading: What’s allowed vs “holding into close to exploit reopen”
- HFT / latency arb / external feed / system error exploitation: definitions
- Hedging & correlation hedging: what it means (plain English) + examples
- Martingale / grid: allowed, restricted, or “depends how you use it”?
- Third-party access: can someone “help manage” my account?
- Trade copying: what’s allowed vs forbidden
- Are EAs allowed? (what’s OK vs what gets you flagged)
Orders & execution edge cases
- What happens if the dashboard is delayed and I breach “before it updates”?
- Can I modify SL/TP manually if an EA placed the initial SL?
- Platform disruptions (disconnects, freezes, VPS outages): what happens?
- Pending orders around news/weekend: what you must cancel vs can keep
- Do open trades count toward limits (floating PnL)?
Breaches, penalties, reviews, appeals
- VPN / VM / shared IP / unusual login behavior: what gets flagged
- Appeals process: what evidence do you accept?
- Violations & penalties: what happens after a breach/review?
- What triggers a breach (quick list) + common “I didn’t know” cases
- Hard vs soft breach: do warnings exist?
Performance rewards
- How does PropXP define a profitable day?
- Do performance rewards impact my daily drawdown?
- What are the payment methods available for performance rewards?
- Can I request partial rewards?
- What can reduce/deny a reward?
- What is the minimum reward amount?
- How often can I get paid?
- Must stop trading while a reward request is processing
- What are the eligibility criteria for performance rewards?
- How do performance rewards work (and when you can request them)?
Billing, accounts, policies
- What is the max allocation in PropXP?
- What payment methods are available?
- Can I reset, retry, or restart a failed account?
- Inactivity: what happens if I don’t trade for 30 days
- Multiple accounts: Can I have more than one?
- Refund policy: when refunds are/aren’t possible
Security & compliance
How does the Consistency Rule work in PropXP?
PropXP applies a 40% consistency rule to every Challenge phase and every Funded account.
The consistency rule for Instant Funding is 20%.
The rule (plain English)
Your best profit day can’t be more than 40% of your total profit for the current phase / reward period (or 20% for Instant Funding).
Formula:
- One-Phase and Two-Phase accounts: Best Day Profit ≤ 0.40 × Total Profit
- Instant Funding accounts: Best Day Profit ≤ 0.40 × Total Profit
This isn’t here to punish a good day. It’s here to stop “one hero trade” accounts.
What happens if you go over the allowed percentage?
You do not fail.
You simply need more total profit (spread over more days) so that your best day becomes ≤ 40% (or ≤ 20% for Instant Funding accounts) of the new total.
Think of it like this: a monster day raises the minimum total profit you must reach.
Challenge vs Funded (what changes)
During a Challenge phase
- You can hit the profit target…
- …but you won’t pass until the 40% rule is also satisfied.
On a Funded account
- You can keep trading normally…
- …but you can’t request a performance reward until the 40% rule is satisfied for that reward period.
On an Instant Funding Account
- You can keep trading normally…
- …but you can’t request a performance reward until the 20% rule is satisfied for that reward period.
Quick reality check: Why it usually takes 3 or 5 days
On One-Phase and Two-Phase challenges and funded accounts it usually takes at least three days to reach an objective:
- 1 day: that day = 100% of profit → not allowed
- 2 days: 50% + 50% → still not allowed
- 3+ days: becomes mathematically possible (e.g. 40% / 30% / 30%)
On Instant Funded accounts it usually takes at least five days to be eligible for a performance reward:
- 1 day: That day = 100% of profit → not allowed
- 2 days: 50% + 50% → still not allowed
- 3 days: 33% + 33% + 33% → still not allowed
- 4 days: 25% + 25% + 25% + 25% → still not allowed
- 5+ days: Becomes mathematically possible (e.g. 15% / 15% / 10% / 20% / 10% / 20% / 10%)
So no, we don’t force “minimum trading days”… but the math does.
Simple $ example (so you can’t misread it)
You are trading a One-Phase challenge. If your total profit is $9,000, your best day can’t be above:
$9,000 × 0.40 = $3,600
If you make $4,000 in one day, that day is now your “best day”.
To make $4,000 equal to 40%, your total profit must be at least:
$4,000 ÷ 0.40 = $10,000
So you’d need $1,000 more profit on other day(s) (without beating $4,000 in a single day).
Full practical example (Challenge)
You have a $100,000 Two-Phase Challenge with a $10,000 profit target and a 40% consistency rule.
You trade like this:
- Day 1: +$1,000
- Day 2: +$3,000
- Day 3: +$6,000
Total profit = $10,000 ✅
Best day = $6,000 ❌
Why? $6,000 is 60% of $10,000 ❌ (needs to be ≤ 40%)
What now?
- You don’t fail.
- You just need to increase total profit until $6,000 is only 40%.
Required total profit:
- $6,000 ÷ 0.40 = $15,000
So your new objective is:
- Reach $15,000 total profit (i.e. +$5,000 more)
- Without having any single day exceed $6,000
Once you do that, you pass the phase / unlock the reward request.
How to avoid consistency headaches
- Don’t try to “make the target” in one trade.
- After a big day, taper size (protect the account and the math).
- Split your performance across days: steady > spicy.
Your dashboard tracks this, so you always know where you stand. Your PropXP dashboard is updated on average every 30 minutes, so you may have to wait a bit after you have closed a trade to see its impact reflected in the consistency rule percentage.
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