The short answer
No, UZO does not profit when you lose. Your trades run on simulated capital, so we are never the market counterparty taking the other side of your position for live profit. Our interests are aligned with yours through a fixed 90% trader / 10% firm split on your rewards: we only do well when you do well.
It is a fair question, and a common one. In a lot of financial relationships, the house wins when you lose. UZO is built the opposite way. The synthetic ("Syn-Fi") model is designed so that our success depends on yours. Here is exactly how that works.
Why a simulated model means we are not your market counterparty
When you trade at UZO, you trade on real live prices (forex, metals, crypto, indices, stocks, energies) drawn from third-party feeds, with real spreads and commissions applied. What is simulated is the capital. No live money sits on the other side of your order in the market.
That distinction matters. A broker that funds your trades with its own capital has a direct interest in those trades losing, because your loss is its gain. UZO has no such position. We are not warehousing your trade, hedging it, or routing it for our own market gain. Your profit and loss on the platform does not flow to us as a counterparty. So the structural reason a firm might want you to fail simply is not present here.
The 90/10 split as a shared-incentive structure
When you pass and start earning rewards, you keep 90% and UZO keeps 10%. That split is fixed at every account size, from the smallest to the largest, and it never changes as you scale.
Read what that means for incentives. Our 10% only exists if you generate a reward in the first place. The more you succeed, the better that is for both of us. There is no version of this where you losing helps us. We hold a minority share of your wins, and nothing else.
The aligning detail
Your evaluation fee is refunded on your first reward payout. The fee you paid to start comes back the moment you succeed. We are set up to win alongside the traders who pass, not against the ones who do not.
Uniform spreads and commissions for everyone
Spreads and commissions are applied uniformly across all traders. They are not tuned, widened, or quietly worsened against any individual based on how well they are doing. The pricing you see is the pricing everyone sees. You can confirm the live numbers on your dashboard at any time.
This removes another classic conflict. There is no lever we pull to make a specific winning trader's costs heavier so they slip below target. Trading conditions are the same set of rules for the whole platform.
Where the suspicion comes from, and why it does not apply here
The worry usually traces back to two industry tricks: firms that bet against their own traders, and firms that bury hidden rules so almost no one can collect. We have addressed both.
No betting against you. Simulated capital and a 90/10 win share mean we are aligned with your success, not your failure.
No hidden gotchas. There is no consistency rule. Prohibited behaviour is limited to things that game the simulation itself, such as latency or HFT arbitrage and tick-exploit scalping. Strategies like EAs, custom indicators, news trading, and overnight or weekend holding are allowed.
We will also say the honest part out loud: most evaluations do not pass. That is the nature of a real performance standard, not a trap. The rules you must clear are published up front, identification (KYC, via Veriff) is requested only after you pass rather than to start, and payouts are approved in under an hour and clear within 12 hours. The whole structure is built so that the only way we win is alongside you.
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The 90/10 split explained
Payout fees and the challenge-fee refund