Why Minimum Trading Days Exist (And How to Not Get Caught Out By Them)

Standard evaluations require a minimum of 3 distinct trading days before you can pass a phase or request a payout (5 days for Instant Funding). A day counts the moment you have at least one open position during that calendar day — it has nothing to do with how long you held the position or how much you traded.

Without a minimum, a trader could theoretically hit an 8% profit target with one oversized trade in one afternoon and get funded off a single data point. The minimum trading day requirement forces at least a few independent samples of decision-making before funding is granted — it's a much lighter-touch version of the same idea behind the consistency rule.

Traders sometimes hit their profit target on day one and assume they're done, then either stop trading (and wonder why the account won't advance) or, worse, keep trading aggressively out of impatience and give back the profit they already earned. The correct move once you've hit the target early is to trade small, low-risk positions on the remaining required days — just enough to register as a trading day — rather than continuing to swing for more profit you don't need.