The Best Day Rule requires that your most profitable day (“Best Day”) does not exceed 50% of your total profits on the account.
To pass the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or to be eligible for a Reward on an FTMO Account, your profit from the Best Day must not represent more than 50 of your total profit.
How is the Best Day calculated?
The Best Day is the single day with the highest profit, calculated from closed trades:
- at the end of the trading day (00:00 CE(S)T), or
- when other Trading Objectives are fulfilled on FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or FTMO Account: 1-Step.
What happens if I exceed the 50% limit?
Exceeding the Best Day limit is not treated as a rule breach. However, you need to continue trading to generate additional profit until your Best Day represents 50% or less of your total profit on the account.
For informative purposes, the Best Day Rule results are displayed in Account MetriX.
Where does this rule apply?
This rule applies to the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step as well as the FTMO Account: 1-Step.
Example
(Account size does not play a role.)
- Total profit = $10,000
- Day 1 = closed profit = $7,000 (70% of $10,000)
- Day 2 = closed profit = $2,000
- Day 3 = closed loss = $1,000
- Day 4 = closed profit = $2,000
The Best Day is Day 1. However, because the profit achieved on the Best Day exceeds the allowed 50% limit, the Best Day Rule is not satisfied, and you need to continue trading until your total profit is at least $
