The short answer
The Data Quality Score (DQS) is UZO's measure of how well you trade. Every phase you trade receives its own score out of 100, which regards how you protect a position, how consistently you apply a strategy, how you exit and how composed you remain.
Each purchase then earns UZO credit from those scores, once, whether the challenge passes or falls short.
Why UZO scores behaviour
UZO is AI-native synthetic finance. The behaviour you generate on the platform is what our models learn from, and not all behaviour is equally worth learning from. A measured phase, with stops in place, a strategy held and losses taken calmly, teaches a great deal. A frantic one teaches very little. The DQS is how we tell the two apart, and how we pay for the difference.
The method is set out in the Master Terms, Article 10: defined measures with fixed weights, applied algorithmically and identically to every trader.
The five measures
Every phase is read across five measures, weighted in the order they appear. Risk management carries the greatest weight.
Measure | What it reads |
Risk management | How each position is protected: a stop where a stop belongs, size in proportion to the account, drawdown limits respected |
Strategic consistency | One recognisable strategy, applied steadily across the phase |
Execution quality | Exits made by plan rather than by nerve |
Behavioural discipline | Composure after a loss, and a measured tempo |
Research contribution | Enough trades, across enough conditions, to be worth studying |
What else shapes a score
How the phase ended. A phase that ends in a breach or a stop-out cannot reach the top of the scale.
Repeated risky patterns. Revenge trading, adding to a losing position, scalping and similar habits each reduce the score further, and the more of them a phase shows, the lower it goes.
High-frequency automation. Expert advisors and automated strategies are welcome and are scored like any other trading. A phase that shows the signature of high-frequency automated trading receives the minimum score.
A disciplined phase that falls short can therefore earn more than a careless one that passes.
What it pays
Your scores set a credit rate: a percentage of the amount you paid for the purchase, returned to you as UZO credit. The rate rises with your score, and smaller accounts receive a higher rate, so the credit remains meaningful whichever size you trade. How it is issued and spent is set out in How DQS credit works: when it is issued and how to spend it.
One purchase, one credit
Every paid challenge and Instant account earns DQS credit once, pass or fall short. 100 credits are worth $1 at checkout.
What the DQS is not
Not a pass mark. Passing depends only on your profit target and the trading rules. The DQS never passes or fails an account.
Not a reward. Rewards are paid in money to your verified bank account or crypto wallet. DQS credit is platform credit, spent at checkout. It does not count towards your reward number, your reward caps or the evaluation-fee refund on your third reward.
Not a refund. It does not reverse your purchase, and it sits alongside the refund policy rather than in place of it.