Profit target and trading days

The profit target is how much an evaluation has to make to pass. Ink only tracks it on evaluation accounts: a funded or personal account has no target card at all.

#How Ink measures it

computeProfitTarget (lib/pnl/prop-rules.ts) compares your account's profit with the target:

• Profit = prior P&L (from before you started logging) + the net P&L of your trades in Ink.
• Progress = profit ÷ target, shown as a percentage between 0% and 100%.
• Reached when profit is at or above the target. Until then the card shows how much is left ("$X to go").

Example (made-up numbers). Target $3,000. You joined with $500 of prior P&L and have made $1,900 since. Profit: $2,400 → 80%, $600 to go.

#Minimum trading days

Min trading days on an evaluation is the number of sessions you need to trade before you can pass. Ink counts sessions in which a trade closed (they start at 6pm ET for futures, 5pm ET for CFD) and adds "· 2 of 5 sessions" to the target card.

#Days per payout (funded)

On a funded account the same field reads Days per payout: how many sessions you need before each payout. Most firms only count a day that made enough — set Least profit per day · optional for that ("Blank = any winning day counts.").

countPayoutDays (lib/pnl/prop-rules.ts) counts the sessions since your latest recorded payout:

• The cycle starts the session after the payout's date. A session dated on the payout day still belongs to the old cycle.
• With a least profit per day, a session counts when its net P&L is at or above it. Exactly the amount counts.
• With none set, only a winning session counts: net P&L above $0. A losing or break-even day doesn't count (and doesn't reset the count).
• Only funded prop accounts have payout days — never an evaluation or a personal account.
• With no payout recorded, it counts from your first logged session: "No payout recorded — from your first logged session".
• If the account had P&L before you started logging and no payout is recorded, Ink can't see those days, so the count is a minimum: the card shows "≥ 3 of 5" and "· logged days only", and How Ink reads this account says "at least 3 of 5 (logged days)".

The Dashboard's Needs you shows when you have enough days for a payout, and Record a payout is on the Balance card.

If you have the days but a consistency rule that applies to payouts is over, the account card, the Dashboard runway and a First payout goal say Days done · consistency blocks payout, with how much more profit brings your best day within the limit: "Best day is 37% of profit (max 30%). Earn $6,326.40 more to unlock." (made-up numbers: best day $10,000, profit $27,006.94). The amount is rounded up to the cent.

Example (made-up numbers). 5 days of $100 or more. Since your last payout: +$150, +$99.99, +$100, −$50, +$300. Counted: 3 of 5 — $99.99 is short and −$50 is a loss.

#Which date to record a payout under

Payout days and consistency since your last payout both count from the payout's date, and firms start the next cycle at different moments. The payout dialog says which date to pick:

• Alpha Futures and Topstep: "The day you requested it".
• MyFundedFutures, Lucid and TradeDay: "The day it was approved".
• Bulenox: "The day the payout period completed".
• Any other firm: the day you requested it.

See Track costs and payouts.

#Consistency can still block a pass

Hitting the target doesn't always mean you've passed. If the account has a consistency rule and you're over it, the card reads "Target met — consistency is the blocker". See Consistency.

Presets last checked: Nov 2, 2026. (Apex on Oct 7, 2026; funded payout rules on Oct 24; everything else on Oct 23.) Always confirm current rules with your prop firm. Firms change them.