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title: "Two-step evaluation Meaning - Get Funded Now"
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Evaluations and accounts

# Two-step evaluation

An assessment split into two phases with separate profit targets. The first phase proves the strategy, the second - usually at a lower target - checks it repeats before the firm issues a simulated funded account.

Also called: 2 Step challenge · Two-phase evaluation

GFN’s figure

The GFN 2 Step runs 8% then 5% against a 8% non-trailing drawdown, with 3 minimum trading days, a 35% consistency rule and one free retake.

- **2 Step Phase 1 target**: 8% ($8,000 on $100,000)
- **2 Step Phase 2 target**: 5% ($5,000 on $100,000)
- **2 Step Consistency rule**: 35% of total profit, maximum, in one day

The consistency rule and the 3-day minimum apply to the 2 Step only. Instant and the 1 Step have neither.

In detail

## Two-step evaluation, explained

Two-step programmes are the industry's oldest format and normally its cheapest, because the second phase reduces the chance that a single lucky run reaches funding. Profits from the first phase do not carry into the second: each phase starts again from the account's starting balance.

The second phase is where most attempts fail, not the first. Traders arrive at it having already proven the strategy once and size up, which is precisely the wrong response to a lower target.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/profit-target) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More evaluations and accounts](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/evaluations)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [One-step evaluation](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/one-step-evaluation) - An assessment with a single profit target. Clear it without breaching and you go straight to a simulated funded account - there is no second verification phase to trade afterwards.
- [Phase one](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/phase-one) - The first stage of a two-step evaluation, carrying the higher of the two profit targets. Clearing it without breaching a risk rule moves the account to phase two rather than to a funded account.
- [Phase two](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/phase-two) - The second stage of a two-step evaluation, usually at a lower profit target than the first. It exists to check the result repeats, and it is where a large share of otherwise successful attempts fail.
- [Consistency rule](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/consistency-rule) - A rule capping how much of an account's total profit may come from a single trading day. It stops one outsized day from carrying an otherwise flat account through an evaluation.
- [Free retake](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/free-retake) - A second attempt at an evaluation included in the original fee, granted after a hard breach. It is not a free first attempt - the evaluation was paid for - and its rules are often tighter than the original.

Also governed by [/rules/profit-target](https://getfundednow.com/rules/profit-target)

[Profit target](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/profit-target)

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/two-step-evaluation
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