Valid trading days calculator
A valid trading day is a day the firm counts towards the minimum required in the evaluation. Each firm defines what counts: minimum volume, minimum profit, or simply having traded. The calculator projects the date you complete the minimum, from the days you trade per week and your average result.
Enter your firm's minimum valid days, how many you have completed, how many days a week you trade and your average daily result. The calculator returns the date the minimum is met, with no login and no sign-up.
To go deeper into each part of this calculation: Valid trading days · Evaluation phase · How to pass the evaluation without breaking a rule
Why the date matters more than the target
A challenge runs two clocks. One is the profit target, which everybody watches. The other is the minimum number of valid trading days, which almost nobody watches until the payout request is refused: target met, day count not met.
The minimum exists precisely to stop an account being approved on two large trades. Hitting the target in three days is no use when the contract asks for ten valid days — and at most firms the deadline is unlimited, but the minimum does not go away.
Knowing the date the minimum closes changes today's decision: with seven valid days still to go, there is no reason to force risk now. The plan stops being a race for the target and becomes arriving intact on the date.
How the calculation works
Days missing = required minimum − valid days already completed, never below zero. From the date you enter, the calculator walks day by day and counts only the days you trade: at five days a week it skips Saturday and Sunday; at six it includes Saturday.
What decides whether a day counts is the same function the TCC dashboard uses: with no minimum profit configured, any day with a non-zero result counts; with a minimum profit, only a day that reaches it counts. If your average day falls below that minimum, the calculator does not invent a date — it says that at this pace no day counts at all.
The output is the projected date and how many calendar days sit between now and then. Calendar days and valid days are almost never the same number, and that gap is what surprises traders who only watched the target.
A worked example
A firm asking for ten valid days per payout cycle. You have completed three, you trade Monday to Friday and the average day closes 250 in profit, with no minimum daily profit required.
Seven valid days are missing. Starting on a Monday, those seven trading days fall on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the following week: nine calendar days. If the firm required a minimum of 300 a day, the same scenario changes shape — at a 250 average no day counts, and it is the pace that has to change, not the date.
Notice the effect for someone trading only three days a week: the same seven valid days now take more than two calendar weeks. Days per week is the parameter that moves the date the most, and the easiest one to adjust.
After the calculation
A projection answers about today. What prevents a refused payout is the count running on its own: TCC counts valid days by calendar date on every registered account, applies the firm's minimum daily profit where one exists, shows target progress and day progress side by side, and warns you before you request a payout too early.