Most traders assume the profit target is the whole exam. It is not. UZO evaluates how you reached the target, not just whether the equity curve ended in the green. The three pillars below are checked together, and any single failure means the evaluation does not pass.

This is the part most people already understand. You need to grow your simulated balance to the profit target set for your product, measured against your starting balance.

Neither One Step nor Two Step has a time limit, so there is no rush to force the number. The Instant family is different: those accounts have no profit target at all (Instant 24h aside, which asks for 3% inside a 24 hour window). Your exact target and progress are always shown on your dashboard.

Profit only counts if it was earned within your loss limits. Throughout the phase you must never breach two boundaries: your daily drawdown and your maximum drawdown. Touch either one, even for a moment, and the evaluation ends regardless of how profitable you were.

Daily drawdown caps how much you can lose in a single day, measured from your daily starting point and resetting at 00:00 UTC. Maximum drawdown caps your total loss across the whole phase. For Two Step, the maximum drawdown is a 12% static limit that holds across both phases, so the floor does not move as you progress.

One Step and Two Step daily drawdown figures depend on your specific challenge configuration, so we do not quote a single number here. The exact limits, in both percentage and currency terms, are always displayed live on your dashboard. Treat those figures as the real lines, never an estimate.

The third pillar is about how you trade. UZO runs on real live prices with real spreads and commissions, so we protect the integrity of that simulation. Strategies that trade markets are welcome. Strategies that game the simulation engine are not.

The line is simple: trade the market, not the platform. Edge built on prices, structure or timing is yours to keep. Edge built on exploiting feed latency or synthetic tick behaviour is not a strategy we can fund, because it would not survive in a real market and it distorts the simulation for everyone.

UZO does not impose a consistency rule. We do not require your profit to be spread evenly across days, and we do not penalise a single strong winning day. If one well-timed, in-rules trade carries a meaningful share of your result, that is fine.

We hold this position deliberately. A consistency rule punishes good entries and pushes traders to overtrade just to dilute their best days. We would rather judge you on the three pillars that actually matter and let your skill show in whatever shape it takes.

Because all three pillars are checked together, an account can finish above target and still not pass. Here is how that happens in practice:

This is also why we say plainly that most evaluations do not pass. The target is reachable, but reaching it cleanly, inside the risk limits and inside the rules, is the genuine test. That honesty is part of how we operate.

When your account reaches its target, our system runs an automated review across the full trade history of the phase before confirming the result. In plain terms, it checks:

If all four hold, your pass is confirmed and you move to the next stage. Identity verification (KYC via Veriff) only happens after you pass, never to get started.