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title: "One-step evaluation Meaning - Get Funded Now"
description: "An assessment with a single profit target. Clear it without breaching and you go straight to a simulated funded account - there is no second verification…"
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Evaluations and accounts

# One-step evaluation

An assessment with a single profit target. Clear it without breaching and you go straight to a simulated funded account - there is no second verification phase to trade afterwards.

Also called: 1 Step challenge · Single-phase evaluation

GFN’s figure

The GFN 1 Step is a 10% virtual profit target against a 8% maximum drawdown - 10% with the checkout add-on - with a 5% daily loss limit, no minimum trading days and no consistency rule.

- **1 Step Profit target**: 10% ($10,000 on $100,000)
- **1 Step Max drawdown**: 8%, or 10% with the add-on
- **1 Step Virtual profit share**: 80%, or 90% with the add-on

In detail

## One-step evaluation, explained

One-step programmes are the shorter route, and firms usually price them above their two-step equivalent because the firm carries the risk of funding sooner. The target is typically higher than a two-step first phase to compensate.

The number worth comparing is the ratio of target to drawdown. A 10% target against an 8% drawdown gives you roughly one unit of room per unit of target; a 10% target against a 5% drawdown is a very different proposition.

Worked example

A $100,000 1 Step account needs $10,000 of virtual profit, with a floor at $92,000 and a daily limit of $5,000.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/profit-target) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More evaluations and accounts](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/evaluations)

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.

- [Two-step evaluation](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/two-step-evaluation) - An assessment split into two phases with separate profit targets. The first phase proves the strategy, the second - usually at a lower target - checks it repeats before the firm issues a simulated funded account.
- [Profit target](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/profit-target) - The virtual gain required to pass an evaluation phase, stated as a percentage of the starting balance. It is the only objective you have to reach; every other rule is something you have to avoid.
- [Phase one](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/phase-one) - The first stage of a two-step evaluation, carrying the higher of the two profit targets. Clearing it without breaching a risk rule moves the account to phase two rather than to a funded account.
- [Prop firm challenge](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/prop-firm-challenge) - A paid assessment on a simulated account. Reach a virtual profit target without breaking the risk rules and the firm issues a simulated funded account that pays you a share of the gains you generate on it.
- [Consistency rule](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/consistency-rule) - A rule capping how much of an account's total profit may come from a single trading day. It stops one outsized day from carrying an otherwise flat account through an evaluation.

Also governed by [/rules/profit-target](https://getfundednow.com/rules/profit-target)

[Phase two](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/phase-two)

Ready when you are

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

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/one-step-evaluation
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