What Is Simulated and What Is Real
| Simulated | Real |
|---|---|
| Your account balance | The market data the environment runs on |
| Your orders and positions | The program-access fee you paid |
| Your fills and fill prices | The rules your account is measured against |
| Your profit and loss | The review that approves or denies a payout |
| Your drawdown floor and progress | The company-funded payout, if you qualify |
A "$50k account" describes the scale your performance is measured at: the profit target, the maximum loss, the position limits. An account size is a risk parameter, not cash — not $50,000 of capital, funding or buying power belonging to you, and not money you can withdraw. A payout is not a withdrawal of a deposit, an investment return, a share of another customer's losses or gambling winnings.
How Fills and Resolutions Are Determined
An order is checked against your available size, then the market's state, then live price and liquidity — and FPT requotes or rejects rather than filling on data that has moved. An estimated fill price, slippage or price impact is an estimate and never a guarantee. See How Simulated Fills Are Determined.
When a covered market resolves at its source, FPT settles your position against that outcome. Because that outcome comes from outside FPT, it can be delayed, disputed, corrected or withdrawn, and FPT may adjust the affected position or account record.
What the model cannot reproduce:
- Fills are a good-faith reconstruction of what a fill would have looked like, not a record of one that occurred.
- Your order never consumes real liquidity, so it never moves the real market.
- Data feeds can lag, gap or fail. When they do, FPT may restrict the affected markets rather than trade on bad data.
- Simulated performance is not a prediction of live performance. The full statement is in the Simulation and Risk Disclosure.
What You Can Lose
Because you never deposit trading capital, the most a trading decision can cost you is the account itself. A breach never creates a debt, and you are never at risk of owing FPT money. What ends an account is the trailing drawdown floor — see Maximum Loss and Trailing Drawdown.
Common Follow-Ups
Is FPT a broker, or gambling? Neither. It is a paid skill evaluation with performance-based compensation. See What FPT Is Not.
What does FPT do with my trading data? It monitors and analyses account activity. None of that promises live allocation, copy trading, higher limits or extra compensation. See What FPT Monitors.