---
title: "Hard breach - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "A violation serious enough to fail or terminate the account immediately. Exceeding the daily loss limit or the maximum drawdown is the usual cause, and a…"
url: "https://getfundednow.com/glossary/hard-breach"
language: "en"
last_modified: "2026-09-22"
publisher: "Get Funded Now (getfundednow.com)"
translations:
  es: "https://getfundednow.com/es/glossary/hard-breach"
  pt-BR: "https://getfundednow.com/pt-br/glossary/hard-breach"
  fr: "https://getfundednow.com/fr/glossary/hard-breach"
  it: "https://getfundednow.com/it/glossary/hard-breach"
  de: "https://getfundednow.com/de/glossary/hard-breach"
disclosure: "All trading at Get Funded Now is simulated. 'Funded' means a simulated or virtual account; GFN is not a broker and does not hold client funds."
---

Drawdown and risk limits

# Hard breach

A violation serious enough to fail or terminate the account immediately. Exceeding the daily loss limit or the maximum drawdown is the usual cause, and a later recovery in the market does not reverse it.

GFN’s figure

A hard breach on a GFN account ends it: trading access to the breached account can be terminated, and a legitimately breached funded account is not eligible for a payout from that account.

- **Usual causes**: Daily loss limit or maximum drawdown exceeded
- **Brief crossings**: Count - a recovery does not reverse the breach
- **2 Step After a first failure**: One free retake, on tighter limits

The 2 Step retake runs at a 3% daily loss limit, a 4% non-trailing drawdown and a 60% virtual profit share.

In detail

## Hard breach, explained

The defining property of a hard breach is that it is recorded the instant the threshold is crossed. Crossing it for a few seconds counts. The trade coming back, the news being wrong, the spread being unusual - none of it changes a breach that has already happened.

On an evaluation a hard breach ends that attempt. On a simulated funded account it ends the account and the profit attached to it is no longer eligible for payout.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/max-drawdown) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More drawdown and risk limits](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/drawdown)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Soft breach](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/soft-breach) - A rule violation that triggers corrective action - a position closed, a warning, a review - without failing the account outright. The account survives, but the trade or the profit attached to it may not.
- [Breach](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/breach) - Any violation of an account's published rules. Breaches are graded: a soft one triggers corrective action, a hard one fails the account. The word is used for both, which is why the grade matters more than the term.
- [Daily loss limit](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/daily-loss-limit) - The most an account may lose in one trading day before it breaches. Calculated as a percentage of the previous day's closing level, it resets at a fixed time each day and is the rule that ends most evaluations.
- [Maximum drawdown](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/maximum-drawdown) - The total loss an account may take before it is failed. Expressed as a percentage of the starting balance, it sets a floor: touch it and the account breaches, whatever the account has made up to that point.
- [Free retake](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/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.

Also governed by [/rules/max-drawdown](https://getfundednow.com/rules/max-drawdown)

[Balance-based drawdown](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/balance-based-drawdown) · [Drawdown floor](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/drawdown-floor) · [Buffer](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/buffer)

Ready when you are

## Your capital stays yours. The risk is ours.

One evaluation fee, no time limits and up to 90% of simulated profits. Pick an account size and your credentials arrive by email within minutes.

[Start your challenge →](https://getfundednow.com/challenges) · [Read the rules](https://getfundednow.com/faq)

No subscriptions or hidden fees

Payouts every 14 days

$400,000 max total allocation

---

Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/hard-breach
Facts about Get Funded Now in one file: https://getfundednow.com/llms.txt