Profit target

A profit target is the goal you must hit during an evaluation to prove your trading is profitable. It is set as a dollar figure or a percentage of the account size — for example, a $50,000 challenge might require a $3,000 profit target, which is 6% of the account.

In a one-step evaluation there is a single target; in a two-step evaluation each phase has its own, often smaller, target. The profit target is balanced against the account's drawdown limits, so a generous target paired with a tight trailing drawdown can be much harder to clear than the headline number suggests.

Reaching the profit target alone is rarely enough. You typically also need to satisfy a minimum trading days requirement and any consistency rule, so a trader who hits the target in a single explosive session may still have to keep trading before passing.