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Real prices, simulated capital, real rewards: how the model works

Live market prices, capital you can never lose beyond your fee, and real cash rewards. Here is exactly how that fits together.

The short answer

The prices are real, the capital is simulated, and the rewards are real money. You trade live market prices on a simulated balance, so no live capital is ever at risk. When you generate simulated profit, UZO pays you a real cash reward: 90% of that profit, on every product. We call this the Syn-Fi model, real market behaviour with no live-capital risk.

Here is exactly how a simulated balance produces a real cash reward, laid out end to end.


Why the prices and conditions are genuinely real

Nothing about the market you trade is invented. Prices for forex, metals, crypto, indices, shares and energies are live and real, the same prices professional traders see. When EUR/USD moves, gold gaps, or an index reacts to news, you see it tick for tick, in real time, across more than 1,300 instruments at leverage of 1:100.

The practical point is a simple one. A strategy that works on UZO is a strategy that has been tested against genuine market behaviour and genuine volatility. You trade the real market, in full.


Why the capital is simulated (and what that protects)

The balance you trade is simulated. Your orders execute against live prices inside our environment, but no order is ever routed to the underlying market with live firm capital behind it. This is deliberate, and it protects two parties at once.

  • It protects you. You can never lose your own money to the market. Your only financial commitment is the one-time evaluation fee, and on the One Step and Two Step challenges that fee is returned in full with your third reward. Beyond that fee, a difficult trading day costs you nothing in real terms.

  • It lets us measure skill cleanly. Because the firm is not exposed to live market risk on your trades, we can offer large simulated balances, up to $1,000,000 at the outset and scaling further over time, and focus entirely on one question: how well do you trade under real conditions?

Simulated is not fake

Simulated capital means the money at risk in the market is not real. Everything you are measured on, the prices, the market conditions and the discipline required, is entirely real. The simulation removes your downside, not the real market.


Where your real reward actually comes from

This is the question that matters most. If the capital is simulated, where does a real cash reward come from?

Your reward is paid from the firm's own funds. It is never drawn from other traders' simulated balances, and it is never tied to a live position opened against your account. The traders who pass and keep trading well are exactly the ones we want to pay, because they prove the model works. Our interests and yours point the same way: we do well when you do well.

You keep 90% of the simulated profit you generate, on every product and at every account size. When you request a reward, 95% of rewards are approved within 2 to 3 hours and paid in about 12 hours, by bank transfer or crypto.

How much you keep

Generate simulated profit and keep 90% of it as real money. It is the same 90/10 split on every product, One Step, Two Step, Instant, Instant Pro and Instant 24h, and at every account size, one of the best shares available anywhere. On the One Step and Two Step challenges your evaluation fee is returned in full with your third reward.


What this model is designed to reward

The Syn-Fi model exists to recognise and reward genuine trading skill, and to do so without anyone risking money they cannot afford to lose. By removing live-capital danger while keeping every real-market condition in place, UZO turns the question of who can trade well into a fair, measurable one.

The rules are published in full and are the same for everyone, and they are built to reward steady, disciplined trading. Your risk limits are measured on your account equity, which includes any open, floating profit or loss, and the daily limit resets at 00:00 UTC each day. The One Step and Two Step challenges carry no time limit and no minimum number of trading days, so you may take the time your own plan calls for. The instant routes ask only for a short, sensible minimum of activity: 5 trading days on Instant, 6 on Instant Pro, and 7 trades within the 24 hour window on Instant 24h.

On One Step, Two Step, Instant and Instant Pro we keep one soft guideline, the Best Day Rule: no single trading day should account for more than 20% of your total net profit in the current reward segment, meaning the profit since your last reward. Exactly 20% is allowed; only above it is held. If a withdrawal would exceed it, we simply hold that withdrawal until your profit is more evenly distributed, and it never breaches or voids your account. Instant 24h instead uses the Best Trade Rule, set at 15% for any single trade. If a single trade exceeds that share, the account runs to the end of its 24 hour window and closes as it always does, and no reward is generated for that session.

You are welcome to use expert advisors and bots, custom indicators and your own tooling, news trading, and overnight and weekend holds. Expert advisors and copy trading are welcome too, provided each runs on its own distinctive settings and only across accounts you personally own. What is not permitted is anything that games the simulation rather than the market: latency or high-frequency arbitrage, and tick-exploit or tick-scalping strategies. We pay for skill against real prices, not for tricks against our infrastructure.


Verified in your name, paid to you

Identity verification is you, and only you. It is completed in your own name, by you, before your funded or instant account is activated, through our identity-verification partner. You must be the person shown on your identity documents, and the same person throughout, so you cannot use anyone else's documents. Rewards are paid only to a bank account or crypto wallet held in your own name and matching your verified identity. We do not pay third parties, differently named company accounts, or another person's wallet. Should a name not match, the reward simply waits until it is put right.

If you would like to see the firm behind this, our operating entities and licensing are listed openly. Real prices, simulated capital, real rewards. That is the whole model, start to finish. Any question is welcome at [email protected].


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