Challenge Rules & Regulations

1. Challenge Overview

The ZoneX Challenge is a simulated trading evaluation using live market data and notional funds. It tests whether the participant can reach the selected profit target while respecting the rules recorded for the purchase.

The participation fee gives access to the configured evaluation and related software tools.

Challenge performance is not withdrawable, and no Performance Remuneration arises during the Challenge.

Completion requirements: Reach the selected profit target and keep all applicable risk, trading and conduct rules within limits until verified.

2. Account Sizes & Pricing

For available Challenge configurations, account sizes and current fees, use the Challenge Builder. Open the Challenge Builder

3. Optional Add-on: Pre-Violation Warning

The Pre-Violation Warning is an optional add-on available at checkout that provides proactive UI notifications to help you avoid accidental rule breaches during your Challenge.

The Pre-Violation Warning is optional. It does not change the applicable rules or guarantee protection against every breach. The absence of a warning does not confirm that an action is compliant.

Pricing: This add-on is available for 20% of your Challenge fee. Select it during checkout when purchasing your Challenge.

4. Challenge Process

The Challenge uses one simulated evaluation phase and remains active until completed, failed or otherwise ended under these Rules.

1. Activate the purchased Challenge configuration.
2. Trade the simulated account using live market data.
3. Keep every position within drawdown, stop-loss, liquidation-distance and prohibited-practice rules.
4. Reach the selected profit target.
5. ZoneX verifies completion. Completion makes you eligible for a separate funded-stage review only.

The funded-stage review includes a Challenge-integrity review, a separate ZoneX admission decision and a second approval. Funded-stage documents apply only after that review, your acceptance of those documents, and activation. Read the Funded Trader Services Agreement

Free Retry Eligibility

A free retry is available if realized profit reached at least 5% at any point before failure. Realized profit is measured on closed, filled trades only.

ZoneX may deny a retry for fraud, manipulation, exploitation, abuse or intentional rule circumvention.

The retry creates a new Challenge account with the same purchased configuration. Previous trading history, profit, loss and statistics are cleared.

Each Challenge purchase is eligible for one free retry only.

The retry is non-transferable and applies only to the original purchased configuration. It has no cash value and cannot be redeemed, refunded or exchanged for money.

The free retry is not available for Challenge purchases where any promotional discount, coupon code, or other promotional offer was applied at the time of purchase.

5. Risk & Drawdown Rules

Risk limits are measured continuously and include realized losses, unrealized losses, trading fees, funding fees and committed open risk. The applicable percentages are the values recorded for the purchased Challenge configuration.

Committed open risk means the worst case if every stop-loss on the account were hit, including applicable costs. The account must remain inside both the daily-loss allowance and the maximum-drawdown headroom.

6. Funded-Stage Documents

Funded-stage arrangements are governed by the Funded Trader Services Agreement, the applicable Account Schedule and the Funded Trader Rules. These Challenge Rules govern the Challenge stage and apply later only where those funded-stage documents incorporate them. The Funded Trader Rules incorporate Sections 5 and 7 of these Rules, in the version accepted together with the Account Schedule.

7. Trading Rules

8. Rule Violations & Account Termination

Consequences of a Rule Violation

A rule violation may lead to proportionate action based on the breach:

• Suspension or termination of the affected account
• Challenge reset or disqualification
• Cancellation of pending requests linked to the breach

Serious breaches may result in immediate account termination.

Refund handling is governed by the Refund Policy and mandatory law.

ZoneX monitors accounts and makes breach determinations on reasonable, defined grounds.

An operational determination can be challenged through the Complaints Procedure.

9. General Terms

10. Language and Prevailing Version

These Challenge Rules, the Terms of Use, and all related policies are drafted in the English language. Any translations are provided solely for convenience.

In the event of any inconsistency, discrepancy, or conflict between the English version and any translated version, the English version shall prevail and be legally binding.

By using the website or purchasing a Challenge, you acknowledge and agree that the English-language version governs your rights and obligations.

Revision History

Dated record of material changes to these Challenge Rules. The version in force at the time of purchase governs that Challenge.

• 23 September 2026Stated that the fee is non-refundable except under the Refund Policy or applicable law; stated that daily loss is measured from the realized balance recorded at the 02:00 Europe/Zurich reset; permitted hedging across the trader's own accounts, while prohibiting offsetting positions coordinated with other people's accounts or multi-account activity used to circumvent a rule; fixed the incorporated version to the one accepted with the Account Schedule.
• 22 September 2026Stated expressly the account-integrity practices already reviewed before funded-stage admission (account sharing and transfer, abusive multi-account behaviour, unauthorised coordinated trading, automation used for prohibited practices, pricing-error exploitation, fraud); clarified that hedging is permitted within a single account; stated that completion creates eligibility for a separate funded-stage review only, including a second approval; confirmed that the free retry has no cash value; noted that the Funded Trader Rules incorporate Sections 5 and 7.
• 11 September 2026Replaced the three preset Challenge tables with the parameters recorded for each purchased Challenge configuration; confirmed a single evaluation phase with no minimum trading days, no time limit and no consistency rule; stated the static maximum drawdown floor with its formula and an illustrative example; restated the performance split as the split recorded for the purchase; clarified that the minimum profitable trading day applies to disbursements only; restated the position-risk and simulated liquidation explanations and confirmed that an immediate account failure does not remove the right to use the Complaints Procedure.
• 15 August 2026Clarified that daily loss limits are measured on committed risk and assessed continuously between 02:00 resets; restated the free retry as requiring 5% realized profit on closed, filled trades, one retry per purchase, excluding discounted or promotional purchases; aligned profit target, maximum drawdown and performance incentive figures across the site.
• Earlier versionsNo dated revision log was maintained prior to 15 August 2026. Traders may request the rule set applicable to a specific purchase at legal@zonex.pro.