Mechanism · Consistency Rule

A consistency rule does not cap the day. It floors the total.

Published 5 September 2026 · rule corpus read 2026-07-16 to 2026-08-16 · 59 rule sets · 243 configurations · deterministic arithmetic, no simulation

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Numbers first: 18 of 59 rule sets carry a consistency clause; 17 cap the best day at 20–55% of total profit. A $1,500 best day needs $3,000 banked at 50%, $7,500 at 20%. Answer first: the rule holds when best day ≤ limit × total profit, so the binding number is best day ÷ limit: the total to bank before the checkpoint clears. Free path: run your own book against a consistency cap — free.

Source: propsurvival.com/consistency-rule · dataset (JSON, CC BY 4.0)

The mechanism

The clause is a ratio tested at a checkpoint. Solved for the total, it is a floor: best day ÷ limit.

Every consistency clause in the corpus is written as a percentage, and the percentage is the least useful way to hold it. The clause compares the largest single day with the running total at a checkpoint; solved for the total, it is a floor — best day ÷ limit — not a cap on any one day. This page derives that floor, prints it for every rule set that carries the clause, quotes and dates each clause, and computes it live for any inputs.

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Rule sets that cap the best day at 20–55% of total profit · a $1,500 day needs $3,000 banked at 50%, $7,500 at 20%.

What this page establishes

The clause is a ratio tested at a checkpoint, not a daily cap. On the first profitable day the ratio is 100% by construction; the test comes at the pass request.

Solved for the total, a limit is a multiple: 50% means 2× the best day, 20% means 5×. Equal steps in the percentage are not equal steps in the demand.

While the clause holds, the largest next day that keeps it is limit × total ÷ (1 − limit) — a ceiling that rises with every profitable day.

A best day at or below limit × target can never engage the clause at the posted target. It is the one figure knowable before the account opens.

Two effect families — raise the target, withhold the pass — clear at the same total, max(target, best day ÷ limit). Neither is account failure.

Funded-stage enforcement, the definition of “day” and the gross-versus-net basis are not in the record. They are marked absent, not assumed.

01 · The inequality

What a consistency rule measures

Three numbers enter the clause. B is the best day: the largest profit closed on any single trading day so far. T is total profit: the running net gain at the moment the clause is tested. p is the limit, written by the firm as a percentage. The clause holds when the best day is no more than the limit’s share of the total.

B ≤ p × T the clause as published

Because the same inequality can be solved for T, it is also a statement about the total. Divide both sides by p and the day disappears as the subject:

T ≥ B ÷ p the same clause, solved for the total that releases it

Read that way, a 50% limit is not “half”. It is a requirement that total profit reach 2× the best day; 20%, the strictest limit in the corpus, requires 5×. The percentage shrinks arithmetically while the multiple grows as its reciprocal, so equal steps in the limit are not equal steps in the demand: moving from 35% to 30% raises the required total by 16.7%, while the same five-point move from 55% to 50% raises it by 10%. The ledger below lists every limit in the corpus as a multiple.

The day-one question. A trader who has just opened an account asks what the most they may make on the first day is. Under the clause as written, the question has no per-day answer: on the first profitable day the best day is the total, so B ÷ T is 100% whatever the limit. Every best-day clause in this corpus is recorded as tested at the pass request — the checkpoint, not the calendar. What a large first day does is fix the release total. A $1,500 first day under a 50% cap sets it at $3,000: another $1,500 must be banked before the checkpoint clears, and every later day that stays at or below $1,500 leaves that figure where it is. Whether the same test is repeated on a funded account or at a payout is not recorded in the corpus for any rule set (section 05).

Worked case · illustrative numbers, not a forecast. The required total is set in wine because it is the number that binds.
Quantity	Value
QuantityLimit p	Value50%
QuantityBest day B	Value$1,500
QuantityTotal profit T so far	Value$2,000
QuantityBest day as a share of total	Value75% — the clause does not hold
QuantityRequired total, B ÷ p	Value$3,000
QuantityStill to bank	Value$1,000
QuantityPosted target G	Value$3,000
QuantitySafe-day ceiling, p × G	Value$1,500

Release multiple by limit — 1 ÷ p, and the total a $1,500 best day requires. Configurations: how many account-size files in the corpus carry that limit. The strictest limit is set in wine.
Limit	Multiple	Total for $1,500	Configs
Limit55%	Multiple1.82×	Total for $1,500$2,727.27	Configs5
Limit50%	Multiple2×	Total for $1,500$3,000	Configs16
Limit40%	Multiple2.5×	Total for $1,500$3,750	Configs12
Limit35%	Multiple2.86×	Total for $1,500$4,285.71	Configs8
Limit34%	Multiple2.94×	Total for $1,500$4,411.76	Configs8
Limit33%	Multiple3.03×	Total for $1,500$4,545.45	Configs5
Limit30%	Multiple3.33×	Total for $1,500$5,000	Configs7
Limit20%	Multiple5×	Total for $1,500$7,500	Configs4

Terms. Corpus: the firm rule sets read into this site’s rule corpus, each clause dated to its source. Checkpoint: the point at which the firm’s own text says the clause is tested. Definition of the term: glossary.

02 · Every rule set in the corpus

Two effect families, one condition

Every one of the 65 best-day configurations is recorded as tested at the pass request, and the corpus records two things a firm does when the clause fails there. In 31 configurations (9 rule sets) the posted profit target is raised: the account is not failed, and the figure to reach becomes max(target, best day ÷ limit). In 34 configurations (8 rule sets) the target stays where it was and the pass is withheld until total profit reaches best day ÷ limit.

Arithmetically these are the same requirement. A pass that is withheld until T ≥ B ÷ p, on an account whose target is G, clears when T reaches max(G, B ÷ p) — exactly the raised target of the other family. What differs is bookkeeping: one firm restates the target on the dashboard, the other leaves it posted and holds the checkpoint. The trader’s question in both cases is the same: how far is the total from B ÷ p.

A third, smaller family measures something else. 3 configurations (1 rule set) cap the risk on any single trade as a share of remaining risk capital, tested on every trade. That is a sizing constraint, not a best-day ratio; the release arithmetic on this page does not apply to it, and its row below says so.

The table names rule sets, not firms as such: a firm may publish more than one. Rows are alphabetical. The target column takes each rule set’s clause at one reference account size — $50k where it exists, otherwise the smallest published — so the safe-day ceiling is a real dollar figure at a real target, not a percentage of a percentage. The full list of firms carrying the clause, without arithmetic, is the mechanic page.

Columns in the table below. Safe-day ceiling = limit × target at the reference size: a best day at or below it can never engage the clause once the target is reached. Release multiple = 1 ÷ limit: the total profit required, as a multiple of the best day. Source: the firm document the clause was read from, and the date it was read.

Table — every consistency clause in the corpus

Every consistency clause in the corpus — 18 of 59 rule sets, 68 account-size configurations, computed from the rule files at build time. Alphabetical; nothing here is ranked. The release multiple is set in wine because it is the number that binds.
Firm · rule set	Limit	Effect · checkpoint	Target	Safe-day ceiling	Release multiple	Source
FirmAlpha FuturesAdvanced$50k · $100k · $150k	Limit40% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$4,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,600	Release multiple2.5×	Sourcehelp.alpha-futures.comretrieved 2026-07-16 · recheck disagreement recorded
FirmAlpha FuturesDirect Qualified (instant-funded: skips the Evaluation stage, starts directly on a Qualified/funded account)Direct Qualified$25k · $50k · $100k · $150k	Limit20% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target—	Safe-day ceiling—	Release multiple—	Sourcehelp.alpha-futures.comretrieved 2026-07-31
FirmBluSky TradingPropelEvaluation$25k · $50k · $100k	Limit34% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,020	Release multiple2.94×	Sourcehelp.blusky.proretrieved 2026-08-16
FirmBluSky TradingPropelBuffer Zone$25k · $50k · $100k	Limit34% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,020	Release multiple2.94×	Sourcesource not recorded
FirmBluSky TradingLaunchEvaluation$50k · $100k	Limit50% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,500	Release multiple2×	Sourcehelp.blusky.proretrieved 2026-08-16
FirmBluSky TradingLaunchBuffer Zone$50k · $100k	Limit34% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,020	Release multiple2.94×	Sourcesource not recorded
FirmEarn2TradeTrader Career Path TCP25TCP25$25k	Limit30% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$1,750at $25k	Safe-day ceiling$525	Release multiple3.33×	Sourcehelp.earn2trade.comretrieved 2026-07-16
FirmFTMOFTMO Challenge (1-Step)FTMO Challenge 1-Step$50k · $100k · $200k	Limit50% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$5,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$2,500	Release multiple2×	Sourceftmo.comretrieved 2026-07-16
FirmFunded Trading Plus2-Step ClassicStep 1$10k · $25k · $50k · $100k	Limit35% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$3,500at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,225	Release multiple2.86×	Sourcehelp.fundedtradingplus.comretrieved 2026-07-31
FirmFunded Trading Plus2-Step ClassicStep 2$10k · $25k · $50k · $100k	Limit35% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$3,500at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,225	Release multiple2.86×	Sourcehelp.fundedtradingplus.comretrieved 2026-07-31
FirmFundedNext FuturesLegacy Challenge$25k · $50k · $100k	Limit40% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,200	Release multiple2.5×	Sourcefundednext.comretrieved 2026-07-16
FirmFundedNext FuturesFlex ChallengeFlex$50k · $100k · $150k	Limit40% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$2,500at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,000	Release multiple2.5×	Sourcefundednext.comretrieved 2026-07-16
FirmGoat Funded FuturesEOD Challenge$50k · $100k · $150k	Limit50% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,500	Release multiple2×	Sourcehelp.goatfundedfutures.comretrieved 2026-08-16
FirmLux Trading Firm1-Step Evaluation (flagship evaluation challenge; distinct from Lux's separate 'Instant Funding'/INSTA no-evaluation product and its separate 'Prediction Markets' product, neither modelled here)Evaluation (Stage 1 / "Demo")$100k · $400k · $1000k	Limit5% of remaining risk capital per trade	Effectcaps risk per tradeevery trade	Target—	Safe-day ceiling—	Release multiple—	Sourceluxtradingfirm.comretrieved 2026-07-30
FirmMent FundingFutures 1-Step$25k · $50k · $100k · $200k · $400k	Limit33% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$5,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,650	Release multiple3.03×	Sourcementfunding.comretrieved 2026-08-16
FirmSabioTradeEssential / Plus / Advanced / Ultimate / Prime$20k · $50k · $100k · $200k · $650k	Limit55% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$5,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$2,750	Release multiple1.82×	Sourcesabiotrade.comretrieved 2026-07-31
FirmTake Profit TraderThe Test$25k · $50k · $75k · $100k · $150k	Limit50% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,500	Release multiple2×	Sourcetakeprofittraderhelp.zendesk.comretrieved 2026-07-16
FirmThe Trading PitFutures PrimeFutures Prime Challenge$50k · $100k · $150k	Limit40% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,200	Release multiple2.5×	Sourcesupport.thetradingpit.comretrieved 2026-07-30
FirmTopstepTrading Combine$50k · $100k · $150k	Limit50% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$1,500	Release multiple2×	Sourcehelp.topstep.comretrieved 2026-07-16
FirmTradeDayQuick Pay IntradayQuick Pay Evaluation$50k · $100k · $150k	Limit30% of total profit	Effectraises the targetat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$900	Release multiple3.33×	Sourcetradeday.freshdesk.comretrieved 2026-07-30
FirmUProfit TraderUProfit DAYUProfit DAY Evaluation$50k · $100k · $150k	Limit30% of total profit	Effectwithholds the passat the pass request	Target$3,000at $50k	Safe-day ceiling$900	Release multiple3.33×	Sourceuprofit.comretrieved 2026-07-31

20 best-day rows and 1 per-trade row. Firm names identify published rule sets. A firm may change a clause without notice — its own document is the authority; the retrieval date beside each source is when this corpus read it.

03 · Live · runs in this page

The calculator: what the rule requires right now

Enter the firm’s limit, the profit banked so far, the largest single day so far, and the posted target. The panel answers in sentences: whether the clause holds now, how much total releases it, how large the next day may be, and what happens to the target. The preset limits are the ones present in the corpus; the arithmetic is the identities above, not a model. To see the clause alongside drawdown and time limits on a full rule set, run your own book against a consistency cap — free.

Limit: best day as a % of total profit

Presets: every best-day limit present in the corpus.

Total profit banked so far ($) Largest single-day profit so far ($) Posted profit target ($)

What the firm does when the clause fails

Rule status now

Best day as a share of total—

Total to bank before the rule releases—

Largest next day that keeps the rule—

Target after the effect applies—

Best day that can never engage the rule—

Simulated result from user-supplied inputs · not investment advice · PropSurvival is independent of all prop firms

04 · Derivation · figure

The release arithmetic

Section 01 solved the clause for the total, T* = B ÷ p — the curve in the figure below. A second closed form answers the question a trader asks while the clause currently holds: how large may the next day be? Suppose a day of D is added. If D is not larger than the current best day, the left of the inequality is unchanged and the right only grows, so the clause still holds. If D becomes the new best day, it must satisfy the clause against the new total:

D ≤ p × (T + D) ⇒ D × (1 − p) ≤ p × T ⇒ D ≤ p × T ÷ (1 − p) largest next day that keeps a holding clause

At a 50% limit the ceiling is 100% of the total banked so far; at 40% it is 66.7%; at 20% it is 25%. The ceiling rises with every profitable day, which is the mechanism by which the clause loosens: it is strict on a young account and nearly irrelevant on an old one with a long, even record.

The third form, p × G, is the day that can never engage the clause at the posted target. It is the only one of the three that can be known before the account opens, because it depends on the firm’s numbers alone. The table in section 02 prints it for every rule set.

Evidence class. The three forms are algebraic identities, not model output: given the firm’s limit and the account’s figures they hold exactly. The dollar values on this page are illustrative inputs ($1,500, $2,000, $3,000) chosen for legibility. What the clause costs in probability of passing is a different question, answered by simulation in What a consistency rule costs.

Figure 1 · How much total must be banked to release a $1,500 best day?

Wine: the required total for a fixed $1,500 best day, T* = best day ÷ limit, from $2,727.27 at 55% to $7,500 at 20%. Graphite bars: how many account-size configurations carry each limit. The curve is a reciprocal, steepest at the strict end — the same five-point step in the limit costs more below 30% than above 50%. Data: Illustrative best day; corpus limits and counts computed at build time · consistency-rule-data.json

05 · Absent, not assumed

What the corpus does not record

Each clause in the corpus is a structured record with four fields: what is measured, the limit, where it is tested, and what happens when it fails. Several things a trader would want to know are not among them. They are listed here so that their absence on this page is read as a gap in the record, not as a statement that they do not apply.

FundedWhether the same test is repeated on a funded account, at each payout, or on a different basis. Every best-day clause is recorded at the pass request only; funded-stage enforcement is not recorded for any rule set.
DayHow the firm defines a “day” — calendar, exchange session, or a reset hour — and whether the best day is measured on closed trades only or includes open positions at the close.
BasisWhether the total is gross or net of commissions and fees, and whether losing days reduce it (net) or are ignored (gross winning days). The arithmetic here assumes the total is the figure the firm’s own dashboard tests; that assumption is the reader’s to check against the source.
AfterWhat happens once a raised target is reached — whether the clause is tested again against the new total, and whether a withheld pass has a time limit. Not recorded.
Phase2 phase clauses have no separately recorded source in the corpus. Where another account size of the same phase carries one, the row cites it and says so; where none does, the row reads “source not recorded” rather than borrowing an earlier phase’s clause: BluSky Trading (Propel) — Buffer Zone, no source at all; BluSky Trading (Launch) — Buffer Zone, no source at all.
Recheck1 clause carries a recorded disagreement between two independent re-readings of the source; the row is marked. The firm’s own document is the authority.

Rule of the page. Where a fact is not in the record, this page says “not recorded” rather than filling the gap from memory or from a forum. A rule that can be quoted and dated is a fact; a rule that cannot is an absence.

06 · Dated per clause

Sources and evidence

Corpus facts (limits, effects, checkpoints, targets) are transcribed from each firm’s published rules and dated to the day they were read; the clause text is quoted beneath each entry. Arithmetic on this page is a set of algebraic identities and is deterministic. Worked dollar figures are labelled illustrative. No pass rate, ranking, or comparative judgment of any named firm is published on this page.

01Alpha Futures — Advanced: 40% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“40% on Evaluation only”https://help.alpha-futures.com/en/articles/11634907-advanced-account-overview · retrieved 2026-07-16 · sourced
02Alpha Futures — Direct Qualified (instant-funded: skips the Evaluation stage, starts directly on a Qualified/funded account): 20% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“'There is a 20% Consistency Rule on Direct Qualified Accounts.' Formula (same article): 'biggest day/total net profit (since last request) = 20%.' Direct Account Overview: traders 'need to reach their Withdrawal Profit T…”https://help.alpha-futures.com/en/articles/9492048-consistency-rule · retrieved 2026-07-31 · sourced
03BluSky Trading — Propel: 34% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“Highest profit day becomes the % of your new target. Being out of consistency does not fail your account.”https://help.blusky.pro/en/articles/16300862-propel-plans-phases-rules-and-costs · retrieved 2026-08-16 · sourced
04BluSky Trading — Propel: 34% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.No source clause recorded for this phase in the corpus.
05BluSky Trading — Launch: 50% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“Consistency 50%. Highest profit day becomes the % of your new target.”https://help.blusky.pro/en/articles/16300846-launch-plans-phases-rules-and-costs · retrieved 2026-08-16 · sourced
06BluSky Trading — Launch: 34% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.No source clause recorded for this phase in the corpus.
07Earn2Trade — Trader Career Path TCP25: 30% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“no single day 30% or more of total P&L”https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/5941958 · retrieved 2026-07-16 · sourced
08FTMO — FTMO Challenge (1-Step): 50% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“Best Day ... not more than 50% of your Positive Days Profit”https://ftmo.com/en/trading-objectives/ · retrieved 2026-07-16 · sourced
09Funded Trading Plus — 2-Step Classic: 35% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“"The 2-Step Classic Program has a Consistency Rule of 35% in both challenge phases/steps, and 50% on the FT+ Trader Simulated live account." ... "no single trading day's net profit (from closed positions only) can repres…”https://help.fundedtradingplus.com/consistency-rule/ · retrieved 2026-07-31 · sourced
10Funded Trading Plus — 2-Step Classic: 35% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“(same "35% in both challenge phases/steps" quote; see phases[0].consistency)”https://help.fundedtradingplus.com/consistency-rule/ · retrieved 2026-07-31 · sourced
11FundedNext Futures — Legacy Challenge: 40% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“largest single day at or under 40% of total profit”https://fundednext.com/general-rules/futures/trading-objectives · retrieved 2026-07-16 · sourced
12FundedNext Futures — Flex Challenge: 40% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“Consistency Rule 40% - Challenge only”https://fundednext.com/futures/flex · retrieved 2026-07-16 · sourced
13Goat Funded Futures — EOD Challenge: 50% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“Evaluation: no single day may account for more than 50% of your total profit.”https://help.goatfundedfutures.com/en/articles/14095302-eod-challenge-specifications-rules-and-payouts · retrieved 2026-08-16 · sourced
14Lux Trading Firm — 1-Step Evaluation (flagship evaluation challenge; distinct from Lux's separate 'Instant Funding'/INSTA no-evaluation product and its separate 'Prediction Markets' product, neither modelled here): 5% risk per trade, caps risk per trade, every trade.“Lux Trading requires traders to maintain consistent risk allocation across all trades during each stage... Traders must select a fixed percentage of Remaining Risk Capital (RRC) to risk per trade and apply this percentag…”https://luxtradingfirm.com/rules-of-engagement-3/ · retrieved 2026-07-30 · sourced
15Ment Funding — Futures 1-Step: 33% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“No single trading day can be more than 33% of your total profit. Applies on every account size, in the evaluation and before each payout”https://mentfunding.com/ · retrieved 2026-08-16 · sourced
16SabioTrade — Essential / Plus / Advanced / Ultimate / Prime: 55% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“Terms section 6: "The profit generated during a trader's most profitable trading day must not exceed 55% of the total profit achieved on the account. If this threshold is exceeded, the trader must continue trading until …”https://sabiotrade.com/terms · retrieved 2026-07-31 · sourced
17Take Profit Trader — The Test: 50% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“no single day may exceed 50% of your total net profits”https://takeprofittraderhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15170316538013-Rule-5-Be-Consistent · retrieved 2026-07-16 · sourced
18The Trading Pit — Futures Prime: 40% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“The information below applies to new Futures Prime accounts created on or after 14 July 2026. The profit from your highest trading day must not exceed 40% of your total profit target. If your highest trading day exceeds …”https://support.thetradingpit.com/latest-40-consistency-policy-for-futures-prime-challenges · retrieved 2026-07-30 · sourced
19Topstep — Trading Combine: 50% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“single best day ... at or below 50% of your Profit Target”https://help.topstep.com/en/articles/8284208-consistency-at-topstep · retrieved 2026-07-16 · sourced
20TradeDay — Quick Pay Intraday: 30% best-day share, raises the target, at the pass request.“Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits. ... If you have a profitable day in excess of the consistency percentage of your profit target you do not fail the evaluati…”https://tradeday.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000008849-what-is-the-consistency-objective- · retrieved 2026-07-30 · sourced
21UProfit Trader — UProfit DAY: 30% best-day share, withholds the pass, at the pass request.“Consistency means that your Best Day cannot exceed 30% of your total accumulated profit. ... Consistency won't place your account in Breach—it's simply a requirement to pass the Evaluation Program or to be eligible to wi…”https://uprofit.com/help/trading-parameters-for-our-day-accounts-38280041407892 · retrieved 2026-07-31 · sourced

Working backwards: the total before the day

The clause is one constraint among several on the same account — drawdown, daily loss, time. The free simulator runs a trader’s own win rate, R and risk size against a rule set’s full constraint set, per path, per day, and reports which one binds first.

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Simulated result from user-supplied inputs · not investment advice · PropSurvival is independent of all prop firms. Clause values reflect the corpus as read between 2026-07-16 and 2026-08-16; each firm’s own document is the final authority.