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title: "How Hard Is a Prop Firm Challenge? - Get Funded Now"
description: "What makes a prop firm challenge hard: the target against the drawdown, the daily loss limit, trailing and consistency rules - with GFN's figures."
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Passing an evaluation

# How hard is a prop firm challenge? The arithmetic behind the rules.

A prop firm challenge is hard mainly because of the ratio between the profit target and the losses the rules allow. On a GFN 1 Step, the 10% target must be reached without losing 5% in a day or 8% overall. Trailing drawdowns, consistency rules and minimum trading days add to it. GFN does not publish a pass rate.

By the Get Funded Now team Published September 23, 2026 Last reviewed September 23, 2026 3 min read

## The core difficulty: target versus room

Every evaluation asks for a gain before a loss. The larger the target relative to the loss you are allowed, the less room a strategy has for an ordinary losing run. A useful single number is the target divided by the maximum drawdown: above 1, the evaluation asks you to make more than you are allowed to lose.

**Target and room by GFN program, on a $100,000 account**

| Program | Profit target | Daily loss limit | Max drawdown | Target / drawdown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Instant | None | $3,000 | $5,000 trailing | No target |
| 1 Step | $10,000 | $5,000 | $8,000 trailing, then fixed | 1.25 |
| 2 Step | $8,000 then $5,000 | $5,000 | $8,000 fixed | 1.00 then 0.63 |

Every figure is read from the published program rules. Full detail: [challenges and pricing](https://getfundednow.com/challenges).

## The rules that make it harder

- **A daily loss limit.** One bad session can end the account even if the overall drawdown has room. See [the daily loss limit](https://getfundednow.com/rules/daily-loss-limit).
- **A trailing drawdown.** The floor follows your equity high, so profit given back shrinks the room. See [trailing drawdown](https://getfundednow.com/rules/trailing-drawdown).
- **A consistency rule.** One large day cannot supply too much of the target. See [the consistency rule, explained](https://getfundednow.com/guides/consistency-rule).
- **Minimum trading days.** The target has to be spread across several sessions. See [minimum trading days](https://getfundednow.com/rules/no-minimum-trading-days).
- **A time limit.** A deadline pushes traders to size up late. GFN has none - see [no time limit](https://getfundednow.com/rules/no-time-limit).

## Which GFN program is least demanding?

It depends on the trader. The [2 Step](https://getfundednow.com/challenges/2-step) has the lowest target per phase and a fixed drawdown, but two phases, a 35% consistency rule and 3 minimum trading days. The [1 Step](https://getfundednow.com/challenges/1-step) has one phase with no consistency rule or minimum days, but a larger single target and a trailing drawdown until it locks. [Instant](https://getfundednow.com/challenges/instant) has no evaluation at all, with a tighter 3% daily limit and a withdrawal cap once trading.

No published pass rate

GFN does not publish how many traders pass. Any pass rate quoted for a firm should come with its source, its period and whether it counts accounts or people.

## How to make it less hard

- **Size from the daily limit, not the target.** Risking about 0.5% a trade means a $5,000 daily limit survives many consecutive losses.
- **Use the absence of a deadline.** With no time limit there is no reason to take large risks late.
- **Test against the rules, not just profit.** Would your worst day have breached? See [backtesting](https://getfundednow.com/learn/backtesting).
- **Know how your floor moves.** See [intraday trailing drawdown](https://getfundednow.com/learn/intraday-trailing-drawdown).

## Questions

It is demanding by design. The profit target must be reached without breaching a daily loss limit or a maximum drawdown, and on the GFN 1 Step the 10% target is larger than the 8% drawdown allowed.

None is easy in general. A lower target, a fixed drawdown, no consistency rule and no time limit each make an evaluation less demanding, and each GFN program combines them differently.

GFN does not publish a pass rate. Treat any quoted figure with care unless its source, period and method are stated.

## Sources

This guide relies on no external sources. Every GFN figure in it is generated from the same published pricing and rules data the checkout uses.

## Related reading

- [Common funded account mistakes →](https://getfundednow.com/guides/common-funded-account-mistakes)
- [The consistency rule, explained →](https://getfundednow.com/guides/consistency-rule)
- [Challenges and pricing →](https://getfundednow.com/challenges)
- [How it works →](https://getfundednow.com/how-it-works)

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