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Payout cadence is the time between when you can withdraw funded profit. It’s not a minor detail — cadence interacts with the consistency rule, the scaling plan, and the operator’s own cash flow.

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Cadences across supported firms

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Why on-demand matters for some operators

On-demand payouts (The5ers in our supported set) are uniquely useful for:
  • News and event traders. Lock in an oversized win the same day it happens, before the consistency rule can void the cycle.
  • Swing traders with lumpy profit. A 4R thesis trade closes Tuesday; cash it out Wednesday rather than waiting for the bi-weekly window.
  • Operators who want to compound off-account. Reinvesting elsewhere needs the cash sooner.
The trade-off: on-demand-payout firms tend to have stricter consistency rules to compensate (The5ers has the most generous 50% threshold but enforces it harder).

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Cadence × consistency rule interaction

The longer the payout cycle, the more time for one outlier day to dominate the cycle profit. A 14-day cycle with one 5R day and thirteen 0.5R days has the 5R day at ~43% of total profit. A 30-day cycle with the same distribution drops to ~28%. So the consistency rule effectively tightens on longer cycles even at the same percentage threshold. Firms with longer cycles (FTMO monthly) typically don’t enforce consistency in eval to compensate; firms with shorter cycles (FundingPips bi-weekly) enforce it strictly.

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Cadence × scaling plan interaction

Most firms scale account size on consistent profitable cycles (e.g., 10% profit in two consecutive cycles → +25% account size). The cadence determines how fast scaling happens:
  • Weekly cadence: scale every 2 weeks.
  • Bi-weekly: every 4 weeks.
  • Monthly (FTMO): every 2 months.
  • On-demand: typically gated on calendar quarters, not on payouts directly.
For operators planning to scale into a significant account, the cadence determines the runway.

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Operator workflow

On Glitch Executor, the payout estimator at /tools/payout-estimator projects the next payout date + after-split amount given firm cadence and current profit. See related: consistency rule, scaling plans.