How do you pass the 1-Step Challenge?

A pace is an average, not a quota. At 0.5% a day the 10% target takes about 20 trading days. At 1% a day it takes about 10. Many days will be flat or red; the pace only tells you whether your plan is realistic.

If your plan needs a much faster pace than your strategy usually gives, the plan is the problem. Lower the pace, keep the risk, and accept more days.

Do not let the rule be your stop. Set your own line inside it. A simple choice is half the daily limit: about $250 on a $10,000 account. It leaves room for slippage, a gap or a trade you could not close in time.

• Stop for the day at your personal line.
• Stop after two or three losses in a row, even if the line is not reached.
• Check the daily floor before every new order, not only after a loss.

On the 1-Step the max-loss floor follows your best closed balance. After a good week, the room above the floor is still $1,000, just measured from a higher point. Profit does not buy you extra room until the floor locks at your starting balance.

So do not raise risk after a winning run. Keep risk fixed in dollars, based on your starting balance, until the floor has locked.

Close to the target, the temptation is to force one more trade or to size up. Keep the same risk and the same setups. If you reach the target before you have 3 trading days, you still need the remaining days; each day counts only when its trades put at least 0.25% of the starting balance at risk (accounts from 22 October 2026), so keep your normal risk instead of tiny trades. Watch the news window and do not hold over a weekend unless you bought the Weekend Holding add-on.

Plan the finish before you are near it. Decide now how you handle the last part of the target: same risk, same setups, no new instruments. A clear rule written in advance is easier to follow than a decision made while the target is one trade away.