Evaluations and accounts
Account reset
Paying to return a failed or drawn-down evaluation to its starting balance rather than buying a new account. It is a recurring revenue line at firms that sell it, and a real cost to track.
GFN’s figure
GFN does not sell account resets. The evaluation fee is a one-time purchase with no subscription and nothing to buy back - the only second attempt offered is the free 2 Step retake.
- Resets for sale
- None
- Subscription
- None
- 2 StepSecond attempt
- One free retake, on tighter limits
In detail
Account reset,explained
Resets look cheaper than a fresh account and frequently are not, once several have been bought. The honest way to price an evaluation is fee plus expected resets, not fee alone.
A firm that sells no resets at all is making a different bet: that the one-time fee plus the trading outcome is enough, which tends to align its interest with traders who take longer and risk less.
Related
Terms thatcome with it
Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.
Retake
A second run at an evaluation after a failed one. Some firms include a retake in the original fee; others sell it, and the terms of the second attempt are not always the terms of the first.
Free retake
A second attempt at an evaluation included in the original fee, granted after a hard breach. It is not a free first attempt - the evaluation was paid for - and its rules are often tighter than the original.
Evaluation fee
The one-time price of an assessment. It is what the trader is genuinely risking - no customer capital is exposed on a simulated account - and it is the number to compare between firms per dollar of allocation.
Refundable fee
An evaluation fee a firm returns under stated conditions - usually with the first payout after a trader reaches the funded stage. Where it exists it is a term of the programme, not a consumer refund right.
Activation fee
A charge some firms apply when a passed evaluation is converted into a funded account. It is separate from the evaluation fee, which is why it is so often missed when headline prices are compared.
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