UZO is a simulated trading firm. You trade on real live market prices with simulated capital, and you earn real rewards when you perform. The rules below exist for one reason: to keep the simulation fair, so that genuine trading skill is what gets rewarded, not technical exploits.

We want you to trade the way you actually trade. The following are all permitted on every UZO account.

In short, if it is a legitimate trading approach, it is welcome here. Automation is not against the rules. What matters is that your edge comes from the market, not from exploiting how the simulation is built.

A small set of behaviours are banned because they do not reflect real trading. They attack the simulation itself rather than the market.

These techniques try to profit from microscopic timing or pricing artifacts instead of from a genuine market view. They would never work the same way with live capital at a broker, so they have no place in a simulation meant to mirror real trading. Accounts found using them are closed.

Two things hold true on every account, regardless of which product you choose.

Leverage is fixed at 1:100. It is the same at every account size, so your risk math does not change as you scale.

Every account has drawdown limits. There is a daily loss limit (how much you can lose in a single trading day, reset at 00:00 UTC) and a maximum drawdown (how far your account can fall overall before it ends). The exact percentages depend on the product. A few examples:

A static maximum drawdown is measured from your starting balance and does not move. A trailing maximum drawdown follows your equity up as you make profit. The Dynamic Risk Shield then locks that progress once you pass a profit threshold, so a bad run cannot erase what you have built. The precise daily and maximum figures for your account are always shown on your dashboard.

Whether you need to reach a profit target depends on the product.

There is no consistency rule on any product, and no evaluation has a time limit (apart from the deliberate 24 hour window built into Instant 24h). You are never forced to spread profit evenly across days or rush to a deadline.

Two outcomes end an account. Breaching a drawdown limit (daily or maximum) ends it automatically. Using a prohibited technique that games the simulation also ends it, after review.

We are direct about the bar: most evaluations do not pass. That is normal for serious prop trading. The rules are not traps, they are the same risk discipline a funded trader lives by. Trade within your limits and you have nothing to worry about.

This article is the overview. For the precise daily drawdown, maximum drawdown and target that apply to the product you bought, see the per-product detail articles and your live dashboard, which always shows your current limits and how much room you have left.