minimum trading days rule ruins my fast strategy, any clean workarounds
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my approach can hit the profit target in a couple of strong days, but the firm requires a minimum number of trading days. so now i have to keep trading after id normally stop, which exposes me to giving back the gains i already made. it feels like the rule punishes efficiency. is there a clean way to handle this without forcing bad trades?
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the clean handling is to redefine what a trading day requires and meet it minimally. once youve hit the target, on the remaining required days place only your highest-quality setups at much reduced size, or even a single tiny trade if the rule just needs activity, purely to satisfy the day count without risking the gains. you dont have to keep trading your normal size, you just have to be present. shrikn to near-zero risk and let the clock run out.
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exactly, separate hitting the target from satisfying the day count. after target is reached, the remaining days are an administrative formality, not a trading opportunity. tiny size, best setups only, or the minimum activity the rule actually defines. the mistake is treting the leftover days as time to keep really trading, which is how people give it all back.
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the minimum days rule exists precisely to stop people passing on a two-day lucky run and then blowing the funded account. if your edge only shows up in a couple of explosive days, the rule isnt punishing efficiency, its catching that you might not have a repeatable edge at all.
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the troll names the rules actual purpose well. it forces you to demonstrate over more than a hot streak. so theres a deeper read of your situation: if your method only works in rare explosive bursts, the funded account may struggle the same way once the burst passes. use the required extra days not just to coast, but as honest evidence of whether your edge persists on ordinary days. if it cant even tread water on normal days at tiny size, thats worth knowing before you are funded.
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