FundedHive Founder and CEO Thomas Hennvart calls the Consistency Rule a supportive trading industry FundedHive’s CEO calls the Consistency Rule a “payment trap” in a pointed industry critique, and said only about one percent of his traders stay funded over the long term, in remarks published this week by ResponsibleTrading.com.
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“The only rule we will remove from the industry is the consistency rule, because in most cases it is not a real risk management tool. It is a push trap,” Heinfart said.
The rule, applied in different versions across the sector, typically limits the share of total profit that can come from a single trading day, requiring traders to continue trading until the results appear more evenly distributed before they can withdraw.
Heinvart said FundedHive applies “zero consistency rules on any of the challenges we face,” along with no intellectual property restrictions, and that the company allows gold trading and news trading.
He framed the issue as one of a business model rather than a trader’s indulgence. He added: “The biggest mistake many failed companies make is that they were not built as risk management companies. They were built as marketing machines.”
The industry’s response to consistency rules is nothing new
MyFundedFX It introduced a 50% consistency guideline in July 2024 and reversed it two weeks later after continued client opposition.
And Peppharm Survey of approximately 500 active support traderswhich was shared exclusively with FinanceMagnates.com the following month, found that 53% of respondents listed consistency rules among the features they wanted to avoid in a support company’s offering, second only to tracked pull.
Consistency mechanisms continue to appear in different forms across the sector’s largest companies.
FundedNext, FundingPips, and Hola Prime all build their funded phase rules around minimum trading days and structures that reward consistent performance, with FundedNext requiring at least two trading days in its Stellar 1-Step program and FundingPips implementing a three-day minimum on its one-step pipeline.
Heinvart distinguished between grammar in general and how grammar is used.
“The honest answer is that the challenges of supporting companies are supposed to be difficult, because exposure to real capital cannot be given to traders without evidence of risk control,” he said.
“The problem is not that the rules exist. The problem is when the rules are hidden, ambiguous, changed retroactively, or used manually to avoid paying traders.”
Trust concerns are at the heart of the sector
The sector has spent the past 18 months absorbing confidence-related shocks. Financing merchant Payments are pending in March 2024 Citing internal audit and was still working on the backlog more than a year later.
Finance faced the tick Trader backlash in December 2025 on what clients called retroactive changes to earnings splits and trading rules.
Hola Prime lately Deloitte hired To review five months of withdrawals, the big four companies reported that 98.35% of payments were settled within an hour and none were declined.
FundedHive has not retroactively changed the rules on existing funded accounts, Henvart said.
“This is one of the most important principles of trust in our company,” he said. He also told ResponsibleTrading.com that the company’s payouts are executed through smart contracts and that manual rejection is not possible once eligibility is confirmed, with withdrawals typically being processed in less than 60 seconds, according to the company.
These claims have not been independently audited.
Success rates remain low across the industry
Asked about displaying FPFX technical data Only 7% of challenge buyers receive compensation“The 7% number doesn’t surprise us,” Heinvart said, calling it a realistic number for traditional two-step models.
FundedHive’s faster one-step and instant funding products produce withdrawal percentages in the 20% to 30% range, although those numbers are self-reported, he said.
When asked what share of his traders he believes have what it takes to stay in funding over the long term, defined as staying qualified across multiple payment cycles, Henvart was more blunt.
“Honestly, it’s a single-digit percentage. Maybe less than 10%,” he said. His own financier Client statisticsshared earlier this year, suggested that only 1% to 2% of its customers ultimately make money on the platform.
Heinfart’s advice for traders trying to maximize their chances of getting paid played into the same theme.
“Stop trying to ‘beat the gauntlet’ and trade as if you are already managing real book one exposure, because the paid traders are usually not the ones who take the biggest shots, it’s the ones who remain competent, in control and consistent.”
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Regarding regulation, Henvart said the industry cannot assume it will remain off limits forever.
“We don’t believe serious property trading should be treated as gambling. But we also don’t believe the entire industry can hide behind the word ‘valuation’ and pretend that regulation never applies,” he said.
These statements come as the European Securities and Markets Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) continue to consider how to classify support trading companies, with… CFTC v. My Forex Funds He was fired in May 2025.
When asked which competitor he respects the most, he mentioned Henvart FTMOthe Czech company that acquired OANDA in 2025.
He said the company “proved something important: a support company can become a serious global company when it builds trust with brand, technology, operational discipline and long-term infrastructure rather than just selling hype.”
FundedHive Founder and CEO Thomas Hennvart calls the Consistency Rule a supportive trading industry FundedHive’s CEO calls the Consistency Rule a “payment trap” in a pointed industry critique, and said only about one percent of his traders stay funded over the long term, in remarks published this week by ResponsibleTrading.com.
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“The only rule we will remove from the industry is the consistency rule, because in most cases it is not a real risk management tool. It is a push trap,” Heinfart said.
The rule, applied in different versions across the sector, typically limits the share of total profit that can come from a single trading day, requiring traders to continue trading until the results appear more evenly distributed before they can withdraw.
Heinvart said FundedHive applies “zero consistency rules on any of the challenges we face,” along with no intellectual property restrictions, and that the company allows gold trading and news trading.
He framed the issue as one of a business model rather than a trader’s indulgence. He added: “The biggest mistake many failed companies make is that they were not built as risk management companies. They were built as marketing machines.”
The industry’s response to consistency rules is nothing new
MyFundedFX It introduced a 50% consistency guideline in July 2024 and reversed it two weeks later after continued client opposition.
And Peppharm Survey of approximately 500 active support traderswhich was shared exclusively with FinanceMagnates.com the following month, found that 53% of respondents listed consistency rules among the features they wanted to avoid in a support company’s offering, second only to tracked pull.
Consistency mechanisms continue to appear in different forms across the sector’s largest companies.
FundedNext, FundingPips, and Hola Prime all build their funded phase rules around minimum trading days and structures that reward consistent performance, with FundedNext requiring at least two trading days in its Stellar 1-Step program and FundingPips implementing a three-day minimum on its one-step pipeline.
Heinvart distinguished between grammar in general and how grammar is used.
“The honest answer is that the challenges of supporting companies are supposed to be difficult, because exposure to real capital cannot be given to traders without evidence of risk control,” he said.
“The problem is not that the rules exist. The problem is when the rules are hidden, ambiguous, changed retroactively, or used manually to avoid paying traders.”
Trust concerns are at the heart of the sector
The sector has spent the past 18 months absorbing confidence-related shocks. Financing merchant Payments are pending in March 2024 Citing internal audit and was still working on the backlog more than a year later.
Finance faced the tick Trader backlash in December 2025 on what clients called retroactive changes to earnings splits and trading rules.
Hola Prime lately Deloitte hired To review five months of withdrawals, the big four companies reported that 98.35% of payments were settled within an hour and none were declined.
FundedHive has not retroactively changed the rules on existing funded accounts, Henvart said.
“This is one of the most important principles of trust in our company,” he said. He also told ResponsibleTrading.com that the company’s payouts are executed through smart contracts and that manual rejection is not possible once eligibility is confirmed, with withdrawals typically being processed in less than 60 seconds, according to the company.
These claims have not been independently audited.
Success rates remain low across the industry
Asked about displaying FPFX technical data Only 7% of challenge buyers receive compensation“The 7% number doesn’t surprise us,” Heinvart said, calling it a realistic number for traditional two-step models.
FundedHive’s faster one-step and instant funding products produce withdrawal percentages in the 20% to 30% range, although those numbers are self-reported, he said.
When asked what share of his traders he believes have what it takes to stay in funding over the long term, defined as staying qualified across multiple payment cycles, Henvart was more blunt.
“Honestly, it’s a single-digit percentage. Maybe less than 10%,” he said. His own financier Client statisticsshared earlier this year, suggested that only 1% to 2% of its customers ultimately make money on the platform.
Heinfart’s advice for traders trying to maximize their chances of getting paid played into the same theme.
“Stop trying to ‘beat the gauntlet’ and trade as if you are already managing real book one exposure, because the paid traders are usually not the ones who take the biggest shots, it’s the ones who remain competent, in control and consistent.”
Systems
Regarding regulation, Henvart said the industry cannot assume it will remain off limits forever.
“We don’t believe serious property trading should be treated as gambling. But we also don’t believe the entire industry can hide behind the word ‘valuation’ and pretend that regulation never applies,” he said.
These statements come as the European Securities and Markets Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) continue to consider how to classify support trading companies, with… CFTC v. My Forex Funds He was fired in May 2025.
When asked which competitor he respects the most, he mentioned Henvart FTMOthe Czech company that acquired OANDA in 2025.
He said the company “proved something important: a support company can become a serious global company when it builds trust with brand, technology, operational discipline and long-term infrastructure rather than just selling hype.”
