Reset fee

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.