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Where do UZO prices come from?

Real live market prices from third-party feeds, applied uniformly to every trader.

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Written by John

Short answer

UZO quotes are real live prices drawn from third-party data feeds. The capital is simulated, but the price action you trade against is genuine market data. UZO does not set, invent, or move quotes against you.

When you trade at UZO you are reading the same market the rest of the world reads. Every quote on your screen originates from external feeds, not from UZO. That single fact is what makes the experience fair: the price is the price, and it moves for everyone at once.


What markets you can trade

UZO carries real prices across a broad set of asset classes, so you can trade the instruments you already know.

  • Forex currency pairs

  • Metals such as gold and silver

  • Crypto

  • Indices

  • Stocks

  • Energies

The exact symbols available depend on your platform (MetaTrader 5, TradeLocker, or MatchTrader). Live instruments and their current quotes are always shown on your dashboard.


Spreads, commissions, and leverage applied uniformly

Real prices alone are not enough. The trading costs around those prices have to be real too, otherwise results would not reflect how you would perform in a live account.

UZO applies real spreads and commissions, and it applies them uniformly to every trader. There is no hidden markup that targets one account over another, and no widening of spreads timed to your positions. Leverage is fixed at 1:100 across products and account sizes. Current spreads and commission rates for each instrument are visible in your platform under live pricing.

Element

How UZO handles it

Quotes

Real live prices from third-party feeds

Spreads

Real, applied uniformly to all traders

Commissions

Real, applied uniformly to all traders

Leverage

Fixed at 1:100


Simulated capital versus real price data

UZO is a simulated, or Syn-Fi, prop firm. It is important to keep two ideas separate because they are not the same thing.

The capital is simulated. No live money sits behind your positions, which is why you can be evaluated and funded without putting your own balance at market risk. The price data, on the other hand, is real. Your fills, your spreads, your drawdown, and your profit are all calculated against the same quotes the live market is printing. You experience real market conditions, including volatility, gaps, and slippage, while trading on simulated capital.

The payoff

When you pass and earn a reward, you keep 90% of the profit and UZO keeps 10%, fixed at every account size. Real prices in, real rewards out.


Why third-party feeds protect you from manipulation

A common and fair question is whether a prop firm could nudge prices to make traders fail. At UZO the structure makes that impossible by design.

Because quotes come from external data feeds rather than from UZO's own books, UZO is not the one deciding where the price goes. It cannot move a quote against your position, spike a wick to trigger your stop, or quietly skew pricing for one account. The market moves, the feed reports it, and your trade is settled against that. Everyone sees the same number at the same moment.

This is also why the simulated model removes the conflict of interest you might worry about elsewhere. UZO does not profit from your losses on a trade, so it has no reason to manipulate the price you trade against. If you ever want to sanity-check a quote, you can compare it to live pricing on any public market data source for the same instrument and timestamp.


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