Reset Fee
The cost to restart a failed evaluation from scratch — usually cheaper than buying a fresh one, and sometimes the smartest money you'll spend.
A reset fee lets you restart an evaluation that didn’t work out, wiping the balance back to its starting value and putting the drawdown floor back where it began. It’s typically priced below a brand-new evaluation, which is why it exists — the firm would rather have you back in the game than gone.
The reset is the industry’s built-in second chance, and there’s no shame in using one. Almost every funded trader has reset at least once. What separates the traders who get funded from those who don’t isn’t whether they reset — it’s what they changed before they did.
Here’s the only decision framework you need. Before paying for a reset, answer one question honestly: do I know exactly why the last run ended?
| Answer | The right move |
|---|---|
| “I over-sized and broke the daily limit on one bad session” | Reset — you know the fix. Cut size. |
| “I didn’t understand the trailing drawdown was intraday” | Reset — you now know the rule. |
| “I have no idea, I was just trading” | Don’t reset. Go back to sim and build a process first. |
A reset without a diagnosis is just buying the same result twice. A reset with a diagnosis is a cheap, fast return to the one thing that pays: a funded account.
Run the cost math too. If resets are $80 and a fresh evaluation is $150, resetting twice ($160) costs about the same as one new challenge — so consider whether a different firm or a different account size fits you better before automatically clicking reset a third time.
Some firms bundle free resets or run promotions on them, which meaningfully lowers your cost of learning. That’s worth shopping for.
Read Reset Fees: Reset or Walk Away? for the full decision guide, and compare reset pricing in our directory.