NEW CHALLENGE

ZERO Rules — the no-rules prop firm challenge by Prop Trading Academy The no-rules prop firm challenge

The first funded challenge where your profit comes from the Payout Pool.

Start your ZERO Rules challenge → New: PROP Copy — copy a verified provider →
  • ⚡ No phases to pass No evaluation phases to clear — no Step 1 / Step 2, no profit target to hit first. You start already funded, trading real size.
  • 🚀 Immediate funding from day one Your funded demo account is live the moment you join — no waiting period, no verification stage. Trade from day one.
  • 📈 Up to 100% of your profit* You can be paid up to 100% of your profit from the Payout Pool of your challenge — as your pool grows, your share climbs toward the full amount.
  • 🛡️ Simple conditions total transparency Just three: a max daily drawdown (3%), a minimum of 10 trading days, and no hedging across your accounts. No expiry, and no consistency or concentration conditions to trip over — trade how you want within those.

Key conditions

One choice to make: the MDP — the share of your account that counts toward your payout each trading day. It is what separates the three ZR Cup variants, and what their prices follow from. Everything under them applies to all three — one Payout Pool included.

MDP 0.5% per trading day from $269 $500 of eligible profit a day on a 100K account
MDP 0.2% per trading day from $239 $200 of eligible profit a day on a 100K account
MDP 0.8% per trading day from $329 $400 of eligible profit a day on a 50K account
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Account sizes
50K · 100K · 200K
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Max. daily drawdown measured on your equity against the previous day's close — it resets every day
3%
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Payouts eligible after 10 trading days — on both ZR Cup variants the account is closed once the payout is approved
1, no deadline
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Maximum duration
None
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Which pool pays you one Payout Pool for every ZR Cup, whatever its MDP — your fee funds the pool you are paid from
The ZR Cup pool
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How much of your fee goes into that pool the rest is the company's share — never taken off your payout
90%
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Payout split minimum split = pool ÷ eligible profit, from 10% up to 100%
10%
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Cross-account hedging opposite positions on the same symbol across two of your accounts — inside a single account hedging is allowed
Not allowed
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Min. trading days a day with ≥1 closed position
10
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Payout share you keep your whole pool slice
100%
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Purchase fee
Non-refundable
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Rules / FAQ
Zero
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Account status
Funded immediately

Live Payout Pool real funded demo accounts, updated live

Payout Pool — live
Pool Payout Pool Arriving Traders Eligible profit Payout split

Payout Pool = 90% of every ZR Cup fee, minus payouts made · Payout split = pool ÷ eligible profit, up to 100% and never below the 10% minimum. The chart below follows the pool day by day.

Pool, profit & split, day by day

Payout Pool Eligible profit Payout split % Payout split floor (10% min)

Choose your demo account

Immediate funding. One-time, non-refundable fee — 100% payout share: you keep your whole pool slice. Every ZR Cup, whatever its MDP, is paid from one Payout Pool: your fee funds the pool you are paid from.

ZR Cup 3% daily drawdown · one payout · no expiry · one Payout Pool for every MDP
MDP 0.2%/day $50,000
$239
one-time fee Buy now
MDP 0.5%/day $50,000
$269
one-time fee Buy now
MDP 0.2%/day $100,000
$429
one-time fee Buy now
MDP 0.5%/day $100,000
$479
one-time fee Buy now
MDP 0.2%/day $200,000
$769
one-time fee Buy now
MDP 0.5%/day $200,000
$849
one-time fee Buy now

90% of every fee funds the ZR Cup pool — the highest share of any pool. Every MDP variant pays from the same pool: your fee funds the pool you are paid from. No expiry on the account or the pool: it runs until your single payout, or until the 3% drawdown is hit.

Copy add-on and rebuy, one link. The Copy add-on switches copy trading on for your Cup account — pick a provider on the PROP Copy page. The same link also buys a rebuy after a lost account, at the same price: every rebuy includes the copy option automatically.

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PROP Copy new the ZR Cup with copy trading switched on: pick a verified provider and every new position he opens is mirrored 1:1 on your account, with the daily loss and win limits you set. Same pools, same conditions, same rebuy.
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How it works

  1. 1 🛒

    Purchase

    Buy the ZERO Rules challenge.

  2. 2 🫙

    Contribute

    Your purchase feeds the Payout Pool of the challenge you bought.

  3. 3 📈

    Trade

    Trade your funded demo account under simple conditions.

  4. 4 💸

    Get paid

    Receive your payout based on the cycle performance.

Where your payout comes from

Every ZR Cup, whatever its MDP, is paid from one Payout Pool — your ZERO Rules fee funds that pool, and that is the pool you are paid from.

The more traders in your pool take part, the more there is to share.

👥More traders join your pool
→
🫙Your pool grows
→
📈More payout capacity

At payout time your split adapts to the cycle — two things can happen:

Scenario 1
Eligible profit < Payout Pool
You receive 100% of your profit

If the total eligible profit of all traders in your pool is lower than that pool, every trader in it keeps 100% of their profit.

Scenario 2
Eligible profit > Payout Pool
Dynamic Profit Split

If your pool's total eligible profit exceeds the pool, its payouts are distributed proportionally to each trader's profit.

Why ZERO Rules is revolutionary

A prop firm with no rules to break. Most prop firms sell an evaluation and a list of rules that can cut or void your payout. ZERO Rules has neither: no evaluation phase, no consistency or concentration rules, no expiry — just three clear conditions (a 3% max daily drawdown, 10 trading days, no hedging across your accounts).

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No challenge to beat

No evaluation phases. You are funded from day one.

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Performance matters

You are not judged in a preliminary phase. Only real results count.

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Meritocratic model

Payouts are distributed on results — the more you perform, the more you earn.

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Transparent system

Monitor the Payout Pool, participants, total profits and your potential payout in real time.

Frequently asked questions

All ZERO Rules accounts are demo accounts with exclusively virtual capital. No real funds are entrusted to users and their orders are not executed on their behalf on the financial markets. Any payouts are monetary compensation calculated on simulated performance and awarded in accordance with the conditions of the programme.

Do I have to pass a challenge or reach a profit target?
No. ZERO Rules is funded from day one: there is no evaluation to pass and no profit target to unlock the funded demo account.
How many trading days are required before a payout?
A minimum of 10 trading days — there is no evaluation to pass first, so you can request your payout as soon as you have them. A trading day is any calendar day on which you close at least one position — days with no closed trades don't count, even if the market is open. Your share is paid from your challenge's Payout Pool.
Is hedging allowed?
Inside one account, yes — you can hold a buy and a sell on the same symbol on the same account, and nothing about that is restricted. What is not allowed is hedging ACROSS accounts: a buy on one of your accounts and a sell on the same symbol on another of yours at the same time. Accounts are matched by the email they are registered to, so the two legs count as one hedge even though they sit on different accounts. Doing it breaches the conditions of the programme: the payout can be refused, the results it produced cancelled and the accounts reset to their starting balance — and if it happens again, closed for good. Everything else stays open — no consistency, concentration or lot-size conditions.
How is the payout calculated? Can I receive 100% of my profit?
Payout = your eligible profit × the payout split. The split is not fixed: it is your Payout Pool divided by the eligible profit of all the traders in it, up to 100%. So yes — whenever the pool is larger than everyone's eligible profit together, you receive 100% of your eligible profit. Minimum 10% (from 22 August 2026): whenever that calculation lands below 10%, on every payout from both ZR Cup pools, Prop Trading Academy covers the difference, so your payout is worked out on at least 10% of your eligible profit — there is nothing to claim and nothing to ask for.
How many accounts can I open?
There is no cap. You can hold as many accounts as you like, on any challenge. They all fund and are paid from the pool of the challenge they belong to, and each one earns its own payout.
How is the Payout Pool funded, and does it shrink when someone is paid?

A fixed share of every challenge fee funds that challenge's Payout Pool: 90% on the ZR Cup. That share enters the pool gradually — 10% per trading day, so it is fully in on the account's 10th trading day, which is also the first day that account can request a payout. The remainder covers the company. Your payout itself is never reduced — you receive 100% of your pool slice.

Yes, it shrinks when someone is paid: approved payouts are paid out of the pool, and the paid account's fee leaves the pool with it once the account is finished. The pool always shows what is backing the accounts still in play, and it grows with every new account sold into it.

Why does a new account's fee enter the pool gradually?
So that nobody's payout is decided by who happened to buy that week. The payout split is the pool divided by everyone's eligible profit, so a fee landing whole on the day it is bought would move the split for every trader already in that pool, overnight. Entering at 10% per trading day spreads it out: no single purchase can lift — or dilute — the split you are about to be paid on. By the 10th trading day, when your account can first request a payout, 100% of your own fee is in the pool. Accounts bought before 25 August 2026 were already fully in and are unaffected.
Is there one Payout Pool for every ZR Cup?
Yes. Since 8 October 2026 every ZR Cup account — 0.2%, 0.5% or 0.8% MDP, any size — funds and is paid from one Zero Rules Cup pool. The two earlier pools were merged into it, fees and accounts alike, so nobody's eligible profit or conditions changed: your MDP cap is still the one named on your product, and only the payout split is now shared by everyone. One pool means one live size, one eligible profit and one dynamic split, all visible above, and a bigger fund behind every payout.
Does my account have a maximum duration? Why only one payout?

No. The ZR Cup has no expiry, on the account or on its pool: it runs until your single payout is approved, or until the 3% daily drawdown is hit. On a challenge with a deadline the clock decides when you stop; here you do. Requesting your payout is the decision that ends the account, so you choose between banking what you have now and building a larger eligible profit first. When the payout is approved the account is closed and its fee leaves the pool.

What happens if I hit the daily drawdown?

The account is closed and its fee leaves the pool. The daily drawdown — 3% on both ZR Cup variants — is measured on your equity against the previous day's closing equity, and it resets every day, so a losing day never carries into the next one.

What is the EXTREME 200K, and why is its price half?
The same 200K ZR Cup — same MDP, same 3% drawdown, same Payout Pool, same single payout — on a 50/50 payment plan: you pay half of the fee now ($649 on the 0.5% variant, $549 on the 0.2%) and the other half comes off your first payout. The figure on the card is not the full price. Your account funds the Payout Pool with the full fee from day one, so your pool share is the same as a full-price account's. When your payout is approved, the second half is deducted from it and you receive the rest; if the account is lost first, nothing more is due. The EXTREME has no REBUY.
What is the REBUY, and how do I buy one?

A second ZR Cup account at 50% of the current list price: same size, same MDP variant, same conditions, with the right to a new single payout. It can be used once for each originally purchased account (a rebuy does not grant another rebuy) and only after the account is lost — on the maximum drawdown, or by voluntarily closing it while it is in a loss. An account that took its payout has no REBUY: the next Cup is bought at the list price. It joins the same Payout Pool on the same terms and is marked Rebuy in the live ranking. Available since 28 August 2026.

From 26 September 2026, the REBUY must be purchased within 24 hours of the account being lost. Once that period has elapsed, the right to a REBUY lapses. It is not on the checkout: email support@proptradingacademy.com with the account number; once eligibility is verified you pay by bank transfer and the new account is opened. If a REBUY is requested before the maximum drawdown is reached, the original account will be permanently closed. Any remaining balance or profit will not be transferred to the new account.

What leverage is available?

All prop demo competitions use the following leverage for each asset class:

Asset class Leverage
Forex1:30
Indexes1:10
Metals1:6
Energies1:6
Crypto1:1
Is there a consistency rule? Is it beginner-friendly?
No consistency rule and no concentration rule. No evaluation, no profit target and no expiry either. Three conditions to keep in mind — a 3% max daily drawdown, a minimum of 10 trading days and no hedging across your accounts — and support by people, in Italian and English.
What are the spreads and commissions?
ZERO Rules accounts trade at raw cost: no commission, only the spread.
MDP Max Daily Profit
MDP What is the Max Daily Profit (MDP) and how is it calculated?

The Max Daily Profit (MDP) is the portion of your daily profit that is considered for payout calculations, and it applies to every ZERO Rules account. It is calculated on a daily basis: for each trading day, the eligible profit is equal to your challenge's MDP percentage of the demo account's initial balance — 0.5% or 0.2% on the two ZR Cup variants.

Example

Let's assume a $100,000 account on a 0.5% MDP — on the 0.2% Cup, swap the cap for that figure.

Day Actual Profit Max Daily Profit (MDP)
Day 1+0.80%+0.50%
Day 2+1.50%+0.50%
Day 3+0.40%+0.40%
Total Profit
+2.70%
Profit Eligible for Payout (MDP)
+1.40%

Your trading activity is never restricted. The MDP is used exclusively to determine the profit eligible for payout calculations.

Important: the Max Daily Profit (MDP) is the net realized profit at the close of each trading day (capped at your challenge's MDP percentage of size per day). Your eligible profit — the amount the payout is calculated on — is this MDP plus your current open-position (unrealized) P/L, so live floating profit or loss adjusts your eligible amount before the payout split is applied.

MDP Does the MDP limit my trading or cap my profits?

Absolutely not.

You are free to trade exactly as before, with no additional trading rules, and there is no limit to the profit you can make in a single day. The MDP is used exclusively to determine the profit eligible for payout calculations — ZERO Rules keeps its complete trading freedom.

Demo capital & payouts
Am I trading real money? Are the payouts real?

The capital is virtual. The payout is real.

Every ZERO Rules account is a demo account with exclusively virtual capital. No real funds are entrusted to you, and your orders are not executed on your behalf on the financial markets — they are executed in a simulated environment.

Payouts are paid to you in real money. They are monetary compensation calculated on simulated performance, not the withdrawal of a profit made on the markets, and they are awarded in accordance with the conditions of the programme (10 trading days, the MDP, the pool split, and so on).

Does Prop Trading Academy provide investment services?

No.

Prop Trading Academy offers exclusively simulated trading programmes on demo accounts with virtual capital. It does not collect deposits, does not entrust real capital to its clients and does not provide investment services or asset management. Trades placed by users are not executed on their behalf on the financial markets. Any payouts are contractual compensation calculated on virtual performance and subject to compliance with the conditions of the programme.

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  • ⚡ Funded immediately
  • 🚀 No evaluation phase
  • 📈 Up to 100% of your profit*
  • 🛡️ Simple & transparent
  • 🏆 Monetary payouts on simulated performance

Prop Trading Academy offers exclusively simulated trading programmes on demo accounts with virtual capital. It does not collect deposits, does not entrust real capital to its clients and does not provide investment services or asset management. Trades placed by users are not executed on their behalf on the financial markets. Any payouts are contractual compensation calculated on virtual performance and subject to compliance with the conditions of the programme.