FTMO Replaces the 1-Step Best Day Rule With a Stricter Consistency Rule From 12 October

What happened

FTMO has swapped the Best Day Rule for a Consistency rule on its 1-Step CFDs path. In its Trading Update | 8 Oct 2026, the firm said the change took effect on Monday, 12 October 2026 at 09:00 MetaTrader platform time (GMT+3).

It applies to:

• All new orders of the 1-Step FTMO Challenge created on or after that timestamp
• All FTMO Accounts (1-Step) merged on or after 12 October 2026

Accounts that come from orders created before 12 October 2026, 09:00 keep the old Best Day Rule. FTMO says that grandfathering holds even after you pass the Challenge, take a Reward, or receive a later FTMO Account from that original order.

The live Trading Objectives page now documents both rules side by side for 1-Step.

How the math changed

Both rules still ask that your Best Day (highest closed-trade profit day, measured at 00:00 CE(S)T or when the other objectives are met) stay at 50% or less of a profit denominator. The catch is which denominator FTMO uses.

• Best Day Rule (legacy): Best Day ÷ Positive Days' Profit only. Losing days do not shrink the denominator.
• Consistency (new): Best Day ÷ total profit across all trading days, including days that closed at a loss.

FTMO's own example on the Trading Objectives page: Day 1 +$6,000, Day 2 −$2,000, Day 3 +$4,000, Day 4 +$2,000 → total profit $10,000, Best Day 60%. Under Consistency you are not cleared until total profit reaches at least $12,000 if Day 1 stays the best day.

Neither rule is a hard breach. If you miss the ratio, you keep trading until the Best Day share falls to 50% or below. Results show in Account MetriX.

FTMO is explicit that Consistency is stricter, and that it wants the logic to line up across its offering.

Who is not on this change

• The 2-Step FTMO Challenge still has no Consistency rule (and never used Best Day the same way).
• FTMO Instant already runs Consistency at a 30% Best-Day-of-total-profit cap for Rewards — that is a separate product path, not this 1-Step swap.
• Pre-12 October 1-Step orders stay on the legacy Best Day Rule unless you merge accounts on or after the cutoff; a merge can pull you onto Consistency.

The catches

Losing days now work against you. Under Best Day, a red day did not cut the Positive Days' Profit pile. Under Consistency, the same red day lowers total profit, so the same green day becomes a larger share and can leave you short of the 50% bar even after you have already hit the profit target.

Merges matter. FTMO ties the new rule to accounts merged on or after 12 October. If you still hold a grandfathered Best Day account and plan to merge, check which rule the merged account will inherit before you confirm.

It still sits on top of the rest of 1-Step. Passing still needs the 10% Challenge profit target (Challenge stage only), the 3% maximum daily loss, and the 10% end-of-day trailing maximum loss. Consistency only gates Challenge pass and Reward eligibility; it does not replace those limits.

Bottom line

For anyone buying or resetting into 1-Step from 12 October onward, FTMO made the best-day gate harder by counting losing days in the denominator — and said so up front. Older 1-Step orders keep the softer Best Day math unless a merge after the cutoff moves them. Confirm the rule on your order in Client Area / Account MetriX before you treat a Challenge as passed or request a Reward.

Sources: FTMO Trading Update | 8 Oct 2026, Trading Objectives (Consistency / Best Day Rule Legacy sections, page modified 12 October 2026), and How does your Consistency rule work? FAQ, checked 15 October 2026. Terms can change; confirm them on FTMO's site before you buy.