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35% Best Day Rule

This rule is available for E8 Signature Crypto, E8 Signature Forex , E8 Signature Futures in the Performance stage.


With a 35% Best Day Rule, you must ensure that no single trading day exceeds more than 35% of your total generated profits.

Why it exists (your upside): Whether you are trading simulated capital with E8 or your own capital elsewhere, consistency is the only thing that scales. This rule protects you from the "one-hit wonder" syndrome, helping you develop the discipline needed to manage performance accounts over the long term and building the track record that payout eligibility is based on.

Quick Explanation (Read this first)

  • Your top profit day (Best day) must be no more than 35% of your total profit for the period you want to request a payout.

  • If one day exceeds this limit, you don't lose your account; you simply need to continue trading to increase your total profit.

  • Plain English: You need to stay consistent: if you have one massive profit day, you'll just need to keep trading and making steady gains until that big day no longer makes up more than 35% of your total. Ideally, if you make a similar amount three days in a row, you can request a first payout in just 3 days.

Numbers in context

Fast math: If your best day = $1,000, total profit must be ≥ $1,000 ÷ 0.35 = $2,857 before you request.

Or you can multiply your Total profit

A) Payout Request is possible

Day 1

+$500

Day 2

+$550

Day 3

-$150

Day 4

+$600 (Best Day)

Day 5

+$400

Total profit

$1,900

35% of Total profit ($1,900 × 0.40)

$665

Best Day

$600 Eligible for Payout (Below $665

Note: The best day is lower than 35% of the total profit

B) Payout Request is not possible

Day 1

+$1,100

Day 2

+$1,500 (Best Day)

Day 3

+$900

Day 4

-$400

Total profit

$3,100

35% of Total profit ($3,100 × 0.35)

$1,085

Best Day

$1,500 Ineligible (Above $1,240)

Note: In Scenario B, the trader simply needs to keep trading (without increasing the current best day) until their Total Profit reaches $4,286 ($1,500 ÷ 0.35).

35% best day rule explanation graphic/picture

How to use the Dashboard to your advantage

  • Remember that you can always rely on your Dashboard data

  • Go to your dashboard, check your payout overview, and hover over the (i) icon in the best day rule section, and you will be able to check:

    1. What is the total amount of profits your account must reach.
    2. How much is remaining to fulfill the best day rule.

Help for Best Day Rule in Dashboard Payout overview

Intentionally attempting to bypass the Best Day Rule by splitting a large winning position through hedging or partial closures is not allowed and may result in all profit from that position being consolidated into a single day.

Example: Partially closing a large winning position across multiple days. It may be viewed as an attempt to bypass the rule, especially if the profit is generated during a single-day market movement.

Example: Opening several positions on a given instrument on one day and closing them across multiple days. Such positions may be considered a single trade idea. It may be viewed as an attempt to bypass the rule, especially if the trade idea capitalizes on a single-day market movement.

Example: Immediate opening, closing and re-opening a position held across multiple days. It may be viewed as an attempt to bypass the rule because such positions are considered a single trade idea with identical market exposure.


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