The short answer
A breach ends that single account. Its evaluation or funded status closes and trading on it stops. Because UZO is a simulated platform, no live capital is lost. You can start a new account and try again whenever you are ready.
A breach happens when an account crosses one of its risk limits, for example a daily drawdown or a maximum drawdown line. Below is exactly what that means for the account, for any progress on it, and for your next step.
What a breach does to the account
When an account breaches a rule, that account is closed. If it was in evaluation, the evaluation ends and does not pass. If it was a funded (reward-earning) account, its funded status ends. The account stops trading, and you cannot resume on the same account.
A breach is scoped to the account it happened on. It does not affect other accounts you may hold, and it carries no penalty beyond closing that account. There is no fine and nothing further to settle.
No live capital is lost
Simulated by design
UZO trades on real live prices with simulated capital. A breach never costs you live trading capital, because there is no live capital at risk in the first place.
What you have spent is the one-time fee you paid to start the challenge. That fee gives you access to the evaluation and, after passing, to a funded account. A breach does not create any further charge.
The fee-refund consequence
On a challenge, your evaluation fee is refunded once, on your first reward payout. That refund is the reward for getting all the way through: pass the evaluation, reach a funded account, and earn your first payout.
This means timing matters. If you breach before you have taken your first payout, the fee for that account is not refunded, because the milestone that triggers the refund was never reached. If you breach after your first payout has already cleared, that refund stands.
Remember the 90/10 split
Any rewards you correctly earned and were paid before a breach are yours. You keep 90% of simulated profits on every payout, fixed at every account size.
Starting again
A breach is not the end of the road. You can buy a new account at any size and start a fresh evaluation. Many traders treat an early breach as feedback on their risk management and come back with a tighter plan.
We will be honest with you: most evaluations do not pass. The risk limits are real, and they are there to test discipline under live market conditions. If your strategy keeps hitting the same limit, it is worth reviewing what is allowed, how drawdown is measured, and how the Dynamic Risk Shield protects locked progress before you commit to another attempt.
Drawdown breach versus conduct breach
Not all breaches are treated the same way. There are two kinds.
Type | What it is | How it is handled |
Drawdown breach | An ordinary risk-limit hit, such as crossing the daily or maximum drawdown line. | The account simply closes. Rewards you already earned and were paid are unaffected. You may start again. |
Conduct breach | Gaming the simulation, for example latency or HFT arbitrage, tick-exploit scalping, or any method that exploits how the simulation is priced. | Treated more seriously. Results tied to the prohibited activity may not stand, and consequences are set out in our terms. |
A drawdown breach is part of normal trading and carries no judgment. A conduct breach is different, because it undermines the integrity of the simulation for everyone. The exact treatment of any profits connected to a conduct breach is governed by our terms, so review them if you are unsure where an activity falls.
Related
Payout fees and the challenge-fee refund
What is allowed and what is prohibited
How your evaluation is assessed