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title: "Simulated funding - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "The model where a firm assesses and pays traders on simulated accounts rather than routing their orders to a market. Trading is simulated; payouts…"
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last_modified: "2026-09-22"
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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."
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Industry, legal and operations

# Simulated funding

The model where a firm assesses and pays traders on simulated accounts rather than routing their orders to a market. Trading is simulated; payouts against qualifying performance are real money.

GFN’s figure

All GFN evaluation and funded accounts are simulated or virtual accounts. No customer trades are executed in live financial markets, and eligible traders may receive real monetary payouts based on qualifying simulated performance.

Subject to programme rules, the applicable profit split, KYC/compliance checks and the Terms & Conditions.

In detail

## Simulated funding, explained

Simulated funding is what allows a firm to offer a $200,000 account for a few hundred dollars: it is not deploying $200,000, it is measuring performance at that scale and paying a share of the result.

It is also the reason the vocabulary is precise. No customer capital is at risk beyond the fee, no customer order reaches a live market, and "funded" refers to simulated funding rather than a deposit.

[Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More industry, legal and operations](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/industry)

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.

- [Simulated account](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/simulated-account) - An account that reproduces live market conditions - prices, spreads, commission, slippage - without routing orders to a market. Every GFN evaluation and funded account is one, and no customer capital is ever exposed.
- [Virtual profit share](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/virtual-profit-share) - The compliant name for a prop firm's profit split: the share of virtual profits generated on a simulated funded account that is paid to the trader. The profits are simulated; the payout is real money.
- [Prop firm](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/prop-firm) - A company that assesses traders and pays them a share of the results they produce, rather than a broker that executes orders for clients. Most modern retail firms run the assessment on simulated accounts.
- [Funded account](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/funded-account) - The account a trader receives after passing an evaluation, or buys directly under an instant programme. At a simulated-funding firm it is a simulated account whose eligible gains can qualify for a real payout.
- [A-book](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/a-book) - A brokerage model where client orders are passed through to external liquidity providers rather than held internally. The broker earns from spread and commission and takes no position against the client, so its revenue follows volume.

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/simulated-funding
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