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Payout-day check: can you request a payout yet?

Passing is not the same as getting paid. Before you press the button, check your request against your firm’s payout rules: qualifying days, the consistency rule, the buffer and the payout limits.

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Your firm’s payout rules (copy them from the firm’s own rules page)

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    Days readCheck this matches your statement
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    Profit this window
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    Best day 
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    Qualifying days
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    Most you can request nowAfter the buffer and the payout limit
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    Drawdown room after this payout
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    Why payouts get refused

    Most refused payouts aren’t about losing money. They come from a rule the trader didn’t check on the day: one big day that breaks the consistency rule, a day that didn’t count as qualifying, or a request that would take the balance below the buffer. Firms word these rules differently, which is why this page asks how yours is worded rather than guessing.

    How it’s calculated
    qualifying days = days with profit ≥ the qualifying amount consistency = best day / total profit this window (or / the sum of winning days, if that is your firm's base) most you can ask = the smaller of: balance - starting balance - buffer, and the largest payout allowed room after = balance - payout - drawdown line

    If the consistency rule isn’t met, the extra profit needed is worked out the same way as the consistency rule calculator: without a new best day, the total has to grow until the best day fits under the cap. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

    What this can’t tell you
    • Your firm’s exact rules. It checks the rules you type in. Read them from your firm’s own page, in their words, and check them again before each payout; they change.
    • Anything outside these checks. Some firms also look at trade length, news trading, copied trades or account activity before paying.
    • Whether the drawdown line moves when you withdraw. At many firms it doesn’t, so the payout comes out of your room. That’s why the room after the payout is shown.

    Educational tool only. This is arithmetic on numbers you type in — it is not investment advice, it does not predict anything, and it has no opinion on what you should trade. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and most people who try it lose money. Past results, including your own, do not predict future results. Verify contract specifications with your broker and your account rules with your firm; both change.
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