Everything inside an FPT account is simulated. The balance, the orders, the positions, the fills and the profit and loss are all simulated records held by FPT. What is not simulated is the market data those records are driven by, and what is not simulated is the payout — a trader who meets the rules may receive a real, company-funded performance payout.
That combination is the whole design: a real-data environment, a simulated account, and real money paid out of FPT's own funds for performance inside it.
What Is Simulated and What Is Real
| Simulated | Real |
|---|---|
| Your account balance | The market data the simulation is driven by |
| 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 | A company-funded performance payout, if you qualify |
| Your drawdown floor and progress | The review that approves or denies that payout |
FPT is a software-based simulated trader evaluation company. It is not a brokerage, exchange, custodian, investment adviser, bank or trading venue. It does not take deposits, hold customer funds, route customer orders to Polymarket, Kalshi or any other venue, or execute live trades for customers.
The formal statement of all of this is in the Simulation and Risk Disclosure.
Where the Market Environment Comes From
FPT builds its simulated market environment from data about selected Polymarket and Kalshi markets. Market coverage across both is included in every account, with Polymarket set as the dashboard default — see Polymarket and Kalshi Market Coverage.
Three inputs matter most:
- Live price. The current market price is what an order is checked against. FPT does not fill at stale prices.
- Available liquidity. How much size the market can absorb near the current price shapes the estimated fill.
- Trailing 24-hour volume. This feeds the market-volume cap that limits your position size in that specific market.
How an Order Becomes a Position
- You build an order on the FPT order interface, which shows your account max open size and the market-specific maximum position for that market.
- The system checks the order against your allowed position size — the lower of your max open size or 5% of that market's trailing 24-hour volume. An order over the limit is blocked outright, not trimmed. See Max Open Size and Market-Volume Limits.
- The system checks the order against timing restrictions — a market inside its late-entry window before expiration, or in resolution, will not accept a new position.
- The order is checked against live market price and available liquidity. If price has moved too far since the estimate, the system requotes or rejects rather than filling at a stale price.
- An accepted order becomes a simulated position, and your simulated balance, drawdown floor and progress metrics update from it.
Step 4 is why estimated fill price, estimated slippage and estimated price impact are shown as estimates and never as guarantees. See How Simulated Fills Are Determined.
What Happens When a Market Resolves
Prediction markets end in an outcome rather than being closed out indefinitely. When a covered market reaches its expiration and resolves at its source, FPT settles the corresponding simulated position against that outcome.
Because the outcome comes from outside FPT, it carries outside dependencies: a resolution can be delayed, disputed, corrected or withdrawn. Where a source resolution is corrected, FPT may adjust the corresponding simulated position or account record so the account reflects the corrected outcome. That is explained in Market Resolution and Data Dependencies.
Simulation Is Not a Softer Version of Trading
A simulated account is not a consequence-free one. Every rule bites exactly as written:
- Your maximum loss ends the account when it is reached — $1,000 on the $25k, $2,000 on the $50k, $3,000 on the $100k.
- Your end-of-day trailing drawdown floor rises with profit and locks $100 above your starting balance: $25,100, $50,100 and $100,100 respectively.
- There is no daily loss limit, which means nothing catches a bad day for you before the maximum loss does.
- The 40% consistency rule means no single trading day may account for more than 40% of the profit counted toward the objective.
The full parameter set is in Complete Evaluation Rules by Account Size.
What Simulation Cannot Reproduce
Being honest about the limits matters more than selling the realism:
- Simulated fills are modelled from observed price and liquidity. They are a good-faith reconstruction of what a fill would have looked like, not a record of one that occurred.
- Your simulated order never consumes real liquidity, so it never moves the real market. In live markets, size has an effect that a simulation can only estimate.
- Data feeds can lag, gap or fail. When they do, FPT may restrict the affected markets rather than simulate on bad data. See Temporary Market Restrictions.
- Simulated performance is not a prediction of live performance, and nothing in an FPT account is an investment, a deposit or a return on one.
The Data FPT Records
FPT monitors and analyses account activity — orders, positions, timing, risk behaviour, market selection and performance — for platform operation, fraud prevention, payout review, analytics, product development and research. This is described in Data Monitoring and Performance Analysis and in the Privacy Policy.
FPT may also, at its discretion, review high-performing traders or strategies. That review is discretionary and promises nothing — no live allocation, no copy trading, no increased limits and no special status, unless separately agreed in writing. See Future Live-Capital Review.
Still Need Help?
If something in your account does not match what you expected from the market data, email support@fundedpredictiontrader.com with the market, the order and the time.