Reset fee
A reset fee is the amount a prop firm charges to restore a failed evaluation account to its starting balance so the trader can attempt the evaluation again without buying a new one. It is usually cheaper than a new purchase but restarts the day count.
Senzoukria · Glossary · Updated September 2026
What a reset restores
When an evaluation account breaches its drawdown or another failing rule, the firm closes it. Instead of buying a new evaluation at full price, the trader can often pay a reset: the same account comes back at its initial balance, with a fresh drawdown allowance. Most firms restart the minimum trading days counter as well, and the time limit if the program has one.
A reset does not restore the profit that was on the account before the breach, and it does not cancel any subscription already paid. On subscription-based programs the reset is sometimes free at the monthly renewal, which is a different thing from a paid reset in the middle of a billing cycle.
Why it matters for the account economics
- Every reset is cash out of the trader's pocket that no payout has covered yet.
- Two or three resets on one evaluation can cost more than a second evaluation purchase at a discounted price.
- The fee sits in the denominator of the cost per payout: the more attempts before a pass, the more each payout has to recover.
- Funded accounts generally cannot be reset; a failed funded account means a new evaluation.
In Senzoukria
The "Prop firm rules" form in the Results space has a section named "What you pay" with the fields "Evaluation purchase ($)", "Monthly subscription ($)", "Reset ($)", "Activation ($)" and "Withdrawal fee ($)". The prop simulation replays your sessions through the saved rules and counts each failed evaluation as a purchase or a reset, which appears in "Total spend", "Cost per funded account" and "Cost per payout".
The amounts are the ones you type; the software ships no price list for any firm. A preset assembled from public sources is flagged on screen as describing the preset, not the firm, until you correct it against your own contract and save it.
Common mistakes
- Resetting an account whose rules you did not understand, and failing it the same way.
- Forgetting that the minimum trading days start again after a reset.
- Counting resets outside the budget: the bankroll an evaluation requires includes them.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is a reset cheaper than buying a new evaluation?
- A reset is usually listed below the evaluation price, but promotions on new evaluations are frequent and can invert that. Compare the two prices on the day, and remember that a new evaluation may come with a fresh billing cycle while a reset does not.
- Does a reset erase my failed attempt from the firm's records?
- A reset does not erase the failed attempt: the account history stays with the firm. What a reset changes is only the balance, the drawdown allowance and the counters that the program restarts.