Prop Firm Profit Target Calculator
Track progress towards a challenge profit target, and the trades and days still needed to reach it.
Every evaluation sets a profit target, and most also set a minimum number of trading days. A prop firm profit target calculator is only useful if it tracks both, because hitting the target in three days does not pass a challenge that requires five.
Formula: trades needed = (target - profit so far) / average result per trade
Your figures
The evaluation or funded account's nominal size.
As a percentage of account size. The default is typical of evaluation programmes rather than any firm's, and targets differ by firm and by phase.
Negative if the account is currently down.
Net of costs. Your expectancy per trade in currency.
Optional — converts the trade count into days.
Optional — the firm's minimum, if it has one.
Results
Remaining to target
US$10,000.00
of a US$10,000.00 target
- Target profit
- US$10,000.00
- Target balance
- US$110,000.00
- Profit so far
- US$0.00
- Progress
- 0.00%
- Trades needed
- 20
- Trading days required
- 7
What this means
Reaching the target needs US$10,000.00 more profit — about 20 trades at the average entered. That average describes past results; it is not a rate of progress that is guaranteed to continue.
- Assumes a constant average result per trade. Real results vary, and a losing run extends the timeline.
- Trading faster to hit a target usually means larger positions, which brings the drawdown limits closer.
Remaining to target: US$10,000.00
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About the Prop Firm Profit Target calculation
This challenge target calculator estimates how far you are from the target, how many trades it takes at your average result, and how many days that implies once the firm's minimum trading days requirement is applied.
The useful part is usually the interaction between the two constraints. Traders often discover the minimum trading days is what actually governs the timeline, which removes any reason to size up.
Prop Firm Profit Target formula
target amount = account size × profit target % ÷ 100
remaining = target amount − profit so far
trades needed = remaining ÷ average result per trade
days from trades = trades needed ÷ trades per day
days required = the larger of:
days from trades
the firm's minimum trading days- average result per trade
- Your expectancy in currency, net of costs. Not the average win.
- minimum trading days
- Days on which at least one trade must be placed, as required by the firm.
The trade count is a plain division, but the input that matters is the average result per trade — expectancy, not the average winner. A trader with a $900 average win and a $600 average loss at a 50% win rate has an average result of $150, not $900, and the trade count differs sixfold.
Taking the larger of the two day counts is the part people miss. Firms impose minimum trading days precisely to stop an account passing on one or two outsized trades, so beating the target early does not shorten the evaluation.
When the minimum binds, the sensible response is to size down rather than up: the extra days are compulsory anyway, and smaller positions keep the drawdown limits further away while they elapse.
Prop Firm Profit Target: a worked example
A $100,000 account with a 10% profit target, $6,000 made so far, an average result of $500 per trade, ten trades a day, and a five-day minimum.
- Target amount100,000 × 10% = $10,000
- Remaining10,000 − 6,000 = $4,000
- Trades needed4,000 ÷ 500 = 8
- Days from trades8 ÷ 10 = 1 day
- Firm's minimum5 days
- Days required5 — the minimum binds
The target is reachable in a single day of trading, but the account cannot pass for five. Those four extra days are best spent trading small, since the target is already within reach and the drawdown limits still apply.
How to use the Prop Firm Profit Target calculator
- Enter your account size and the firm's profit target percentage.
- Enter the profit made so far, as a negative number if the account is down.
- Enter your average result per trade — expectancy net of costs, not your average winner.
- Add trades per day and the firm's minimum trading days to convert the trade count into a realistic timeline.
- Check whether the minimum days binds. If it does, the target is not what is holding you up.
Limitations of the Prop Firm Profit Target calculator
Every calculation makes assumptions. These are the ones that matter here.
- Assumes a constant average result per trade. Real results vary, and a losing run extends the timeline or ends the account entirely.
- Does not check whether the position size needed to achieve that average is compatible with the drawdown limits — use the risk per trade calculator alongside it.
- Ignores the consistency rule, which can prevent an account passing even when the target has been met.
- Assumes every trading day is available. Weekends, holidays and news blackouts are not modelled.
Frequently asked questions about Prop Firm Profit Target
What should I enter as the average result per trade?
Your expectancy: the average across all trades including losers, net of commission and spread. Entering your average winning trade instead will understate the trade count by a wide margin.
Why does it show more days to pass the challenge than my trade count needs?
Because the firm's minimum trading days is binding. Firms impose it to prevent an account passing on one or two large trades, so reaching the target early does not shorten the evaluation.
Can I speed this up by trading larger?
Larger positions raise the average result per trade and shorten the trade count, but they also move the drawdown limits closer in exactly the same proportion. If the minimum trading days is binding, sizing up shortens nothing and only increases the chance of a breach.
The target says it is not reachable. Why?
Because the average result per trade entered is zero or negative. In that case more trades move the account away from the target, not towards it — the figure that has to change is the expectancy, not the trade count.
Does the same arithmetic apply to a funded account target?
Funded accounts often set no profit target at all, only a minimum withdrawal amount and a number of trading days before a payout is released. Enter that threshold as the funded account target and the trades and days needed come out the same way.
Can I use it for an FTMO profit target or another firm's?
Yes, since the target percentage is an input rather than a stored figure, and this is not affiliated with FTMO or any other programme. First-stage targets commonly sit between 8% and 10% with a lower second stage, but they vary by firm and by account type, so read the percentage off your own agreement.
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