How Does the Consistency Rule Work?

The Consistency Rule is designed to encourage disciplined and consistent trading by promoting strong risk management practices rather than relying on a single large winning day.

This rule applies only to the Instant Account Challenge.

To meet the consistency requirement, no single profitable trading day may account for 20% or more of your total profit. If your largest trading day exceeds this percentage, your challenge will not fail. Instead, your reward target will automatically adjust until the consistency requirement is met.

Your Sway Funded Dashboard tracks your progress and displays your current consistency percentage and reward targets in real time.

How is consistency calculated?

Step Targets

Dashboard Formulas

Consistency Limit (20%)

Success Threshold × (Consistency Limit % ÷ 100)

This determines the maximum profit your best trading day should represent for each reward step.

Profit Consistency

(Best Trading Day ÷ Current Profit) × 100

This is the percentage displayed on your dashboard and updates automatically as your total profit increases.

Example

Let's use a $1,000 Instant Account.

To reach the first reward step, the account must achieve an 8% profit target, increasing the account balance from $1,000 to $1,080.

Step 1 – Calculate the Consistency Limit

Using the formula: Consistency Limit=Success Threshold × (Consistency Limit % ÷ 100)

• Profit Target = $80
• Consistency Rule = 20%

$80 × 20% = $16

This means that when working towards the first reward step, the largest profitable trading day should not exceed $16.

Step 2 – Monitor Your Progress

As you trade, the dashboard calculates your current consistency using:

Profit Consistency = (Best Trading Day ÷ Current Profit) × 100

For example, the dashboard below shows:

• Current Profit: $7.87
• Best Trading Day: $7.99

At this stage, the trader has not yet reached the profit target, so the consistency percentage is still being calculated based on current progress. As additional profit is generated over future trading days, the consistency percentage automatically updates, helping ensure that no single trading day represents 20% or more of the total profit.