Zenit is a fintech company active in the ecosystem of proprietary trading firms.
Join our community of traders and take advantage of our tools to maximize your profits in the financial markets, once you successfully pass the selection process.
Together, we aim to maximize your profits through your trading strategies.
You do not need to invest your own funds to trade in the futures market. Simply subscribe to a challenge or an instant account to access all the necessary tools and platforms to showcase your trading skills.
- Register on our website and choose the type and size of the account
- Practice your trading strategies on our simulators
This process is designed to ensure that traders possess the necessary skills, discipline, and risk management capabilities.
CHALLENGE
|
$50,000.00 |
$150,000.00 |
$300,000.00 |
PRICE (one time fee) |
$169,00 |
$399,00 |
$659,00 |
TARGET |
$3 000,00 |
$9 000,00 |
$20 000,00 |
MAX DRAWDOWN TRAILING |
$2 500,00 |
$5 000,00 |
$7 500,00 |
MINIMUM DAYS |
5 |
5 |
5 |
SIZE |
5 contracts (50 micros) |
15 contracts (150 micros) |
30 contracts (300 micros) |
MAX ACTIVE ACCOUNTS |
5 |
5 |
5 |
PRODUCT |
Futures (CME, Eurex, ..) |
Futures (CME, Eurex, ..) |
Futures (CME, Eurex, ..) |
TRADING PLATFORM |
included |
included |
included |
ACTIVATION FEE |
$149,00 |
$149,00 |
$149,00 |
FUNDED
|
$50,000.00 |
$150,000.00 |
$300,000.00 |
MAX DRAWDOWN TRAILING |
$2 500,00 |
$5 000,00 |
$7 500,00 |
MINIMUM DAYS |
10 |
10 |
10 |
SIZE |
5 contracts (50 micros) |
15 contracts (50 micros) |
30 contracts (300 micros) |
MAX ACTIVE ACCOUNTS |
3 |
3 |
3 |
CONSISTENCY |
30,00% |
30,00% |
30,00% |
MINIMUM PNL / DAY |
$150,00 |
$450,00 |
$650,00 |
MINIMUM ACCOUNT BALANCE |
$50 100,00 |
$150 100,00 |
$300 100,00 |
MIN PAYOUT |
$500,00 |
$500,00 |
$500,00 |
MAX PAYOUT |
$1 600,00 |
$2 750,00 |
$3 500,00 |
PRODUCT |
Futures (CME, Eurex, ..) |
Futures (CME, Eurex, ..) |
Futures (CME, Eurex, ..) |
TRADING PLATFORM |
included |
included |
included |
1. ZENIT ACCOUNTS:
Zenit accounts work with three phases:
- Evaluation phase
- Funded phase
- Live phase
Below are the rules for the two types of Zenit accounts:
1.a. ZENIT 'CHALLENGE' ACCOUNT RULES:
With a "Challenge" account, you must first demonstrate your skills during an evaluation phase before gaining access to a 'FUNDED' account.
The 'FUNDED' account will allow you to request a payout, as long as you follow all the rules of the Starter account.
MAX DRAWDOWN TRAILING:
To succeed in the evaluation, you must not reach the maximum drawdown. We apply a trailing drawdown on all our accounts. This drawdown is calculated intraday, not at the end of the day.
You must not exceed this drawdown, or your positions will be liquidated.
A trailing drawdown is linked to the positive performance of your account. This means that if you increase your profits by $1, your trailing drawdown will also increase by $1.
Here are the drawdown limits based on the account:
- 50k: $2,500
- 150k: $5,000
- 300k: $7,500
Example: you start with a 50k account. Your account value cannot drop below $47,500. If your P&L is $500 at a certain point during the day, this brings your account value to $50,500. You can no longer drop below $48,000.
MINIMUM TRADING DAYS:
To ensure you are a regular trader, we impose a minimum number of trading days before moving to the next phase.
In the evaluation phase, this minimum is 5 trading days.
MINIMUM DAILY PROFIT:
There is no required minimum profit in the challenge.
CONSISTENCY RULE:
There is no consistency rule during the evaluation phase.
1.b. ZENIT 'FUNDED' ACCOUNT RULES:
Once you have successfully completed the evaluation phase, you can acquire a 'STARTER FUNDED' account, which will allow you to make profits (payout) if you follow all the rules below:
ACTIVATION FEES:
To activate a FUNDED account, you must pay a one-time activation fee that includes maintenance fees and CME data streams. The fees are as follows:
- 50k: $149
- 150k: $149
- 300k: $149
SAFETY NET:
To ensure the growth and stability of your account, you must first secure a certain amount, which will constitute what we call the 'safety cushion' for your trading account.
In other words, you can request a payout for the results generated beyond this safety cushion.
This safety cushion corresponds to the maximum drawdown value and depends on the chosen account value:
- 50k: $2,500
- 150k: $5,000
- 300k: $7,500
Example: On a 50k account, you have reached $54,100, and you can request a payout of $1,600 (because the minimum balance of $52,500 must be maintained to secure the safety cushion).
MAX TRAILING DRAWDOWN:
We apply a trailing drawdown on all our accounts. You should not reach that drawdown or your account will be liquidated.
This drawdown is calculated intraday, not at the end of the day.
A 'trailing drawdown' is linked to the positive performance of your account. This means that if you increase your profits by $1, your 'trailing drawdown' will also increase by $1.
Here are the drawdown limits based on the account:
- 50k: $2,500
- 150k: $5,000
- 300k: $7,500
Example: you start with a 50k account. Your account value cannot drop below $48,000. If your P&L is $500 at a certain point during the day, this brings your account value to $50,500.
You can no longer drop below $48,500.
MINIMUM TRADING DAYS:
To ensure you are a regular trader, we impose a minimum number of trading days before requesting a payout.
This minimum is 10 trading days on the FUNDED account.
MINIMUM DAILY PROFIT:
To ensure you are a consistent trader, we also impose a minimum daily result. This ensures you are not just making a few ticks to validate a trading day.
For a day to be considered validated, you must have made a minimum P&L of:
- 50k: $150
- 150k: $450
- 300k: $650
CONSISTENCY RULE:
You must adhere to a consistency rule: no individual trading day can represent 30% or more of your profits.
For example, on the 50k account with a target of $2,600, you must not make more than $780 in P&L on any given day. This avoids asymmetric trading results.
MINIMUM ACCOUNT BALANCE:
After reaching the target (safety cushion), the minimum balance of your account cannot be lower than the following amounts: your account balance cannot be less than the following amounts:
- 50k: $50,100
- 150k: $150,100
- 300k: $300,100
MINIMUM-MAXIMUM PAYOUT AMOUNTS:
Each payout request is subject to a minimum or maximum amount.
The minimum payout per request is:
- 50k: $500
- 150k: $500
- 300k: $500
The maximum payout per request is :
- 50k: $1,650
- 150k: $2,750
- 300k: $3,500
PAYOUT PERIOD:
Each new payout request can only be made between the 1st and the 4th of the current month, and between the 16th and 20th of the current month.
As mentioned earlier, you must also trade 10 days to validate a payout request.
1.c. ZENIT GENERAL ACCOUNT RULES:
INACTIVITY RULE:
The account requires at least one transaction every five trading days and prohibits inactivity exceeding five consecutive trading days. If the account remains inactive for more than five consecutive trading days, it will be suspended without notice.
For traders wishing to temporarily suspend trading for an extended period, it is mandatory to inform the support team and obtain written permission. This authorization will specify the allowed pause duration.
However, this period cannot exceed 3 weeks (non-renewable).
TRADING HOURS:
To limit risks, we currently only accept intraday traders. This means that you cannot hold positions overnight (intraday only).
Holding positions overnight is a breach of the rules.
Any position that is not closed 5 minutes before market close will lead to the liquidation of the trading account.
PROHIBITED PRACTICES:
- High-Frequency Trading: High-frequency trading is prohibited; you cannot place a large number of orders per second.
- Using Simulation Trading Advantages: You are not allowed to use simulation trading advantages that would not work in real trading (e.g., HFT, arbitrages, etc.). However scalping is allowed
- Arbitrage Strategy on Treasury Bonds for a Tick: Arbitraging Treasury bonds for just one tick is not allowed as it would not work in real trading. All other bond strategies are allowed. Any payout request involving trading in the bond market will be subject to special attention.
- Hedging Between Different Accounts: It is prohibited to buy on one account and sell on another account. This approach will be detected by our system if attempted.
- Hedging Between Different Clients: We have systems in place to detect if multiple clients are hedging accounts in groups. It is prohibited to intentionally and continuously take opposite positions to another Zenit client.
- Trying to Exploit the Prop Firm System: Attempting to exploit the prop firm system by setting up strategies that would not work in real trading (e.g., a martingale strategy to average down with multiple accounts) is forbidden.
- Placing Non-Directional Orders in Both Directions to Catch a Move During Exceptional Volatility: Placing a buy and a sell limit order at the same time to capture a move during periods of high volatility (e.g., news, reports) is not allowed. You are not authorized to use a 'bracketing' strategy, which involves placing buy and sell stops around news with high impact.
- Using Copy Trading Services: The trading account must only be traded by you.
- Using an Algorithm You Do Not Own the Code For: You cannot use an algorithm that you do not own the source code for. The account must be traded only by you, as we want to assess your personal ability to trade. For example, you cannot subscribe to a service that provides pre-built trading algorithms without access to their source code, understanding how they work, or being able to customize them according to your needs.
- Allowing Someone Else to Trade Your Account: The trading account must only be used by you. We want to assess your personal ability to trade.
- Using Hedging / Spread Trading:
- It is prohibited to trade mini/full contracts versus micro contracts.
- The trader must not engage in inter or intra commodities spread trading (e.g., S&P vs Nasdaq or trading correlated long/short products/commodities, etc.).
- The trader must not use long/short strategies.
- The trader must not exploit price discrepancies or issues in different markets of similar or identical assets, also known as arbitrage trading.
- Using Account Management Services like “Pass Your Challenge”: You are not allowed to use shared or resold accounts with other people or entities. We want you to develop your own strategy.
- Executing Trades During Economic Reports (1 minute before and after the news):
- We do not want to take risks during major market moves. We seek consistency in trading. This applies to the following economic statistics:
- NFP (Non-Farm Payrolls)
- CPI (Consumer Price Index)
- PPI (Producer Price Index)
- FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) and FOMC Meetings
- Central Bank Speeches and Interest Rate Decisions
- Oil Stocks
- Michigan consumer sentiment
- PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index)
- IPC (Consumer Price Index) and IPP (Producer Price Index)
- We reserve the right to refuse payouts and ban your accounts without refund if you attempt to exploit the prop firm system by creating a trading strategy that would not work in live trading (e.g., using the subscription as a drawdown instead of the actual loss value).
- We systematically monitor each trading account to detect fraud or any failure to comply with the rules. We use several proprietary systems to identify irrelevant trading patterns and prevent fraud.
- To mitigate prohibited behaviors, gambling behavior, and the exploitation of the simulated environment, these will be reviewed by our risk management and compliance team. If we identify prohibited trading activity, we reserve the right to remove the trading day and all profits, restart the account, or close the account.
COUNTRY RESTRICTIONS:
If you are from any of the following countries, we will unfortunately not be able to accept your account opening. We understand these geographic and personal restrictions may be disappointing, but they are in place to ensure the security, compliance, and quality of our services. We are continuously working to improve our offerings and expand our reach, with the hope of serving more countries in the future.
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Croatia, Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DPRK, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Iran, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Kenya, Kosovo, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritius, Macedonia, Montenegro, Mali, Malta, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Crimea, Sri Lanka, Slovenia, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
REFUND POLICY:
All subscriptions are final. Your participation or non-use of such services purchased does not entitle you to a refund. No returns, refunds, or exchanges, either partial or otherwise, for any reason. Once your order is placed and your credit card charged or your encrypted payment processed, there is no return or credit. You cannot return the product and demand a refund, as intellectual property has also been provided to you. Any chargeback or payment dispute will result in the immediate deactivation of your membership. Your username will be permanently banned from our authorized user database. Any chargeback initiated by you will be thoroughly investigated, and you will no longer be able to purchase services from our company. Any further purchases will be refunded immediately. We will not be held liable to you or any third party for any damages of any kind resulting from the use, access, reliance, inability to use, or misuse of the site, any information, content, materials, or services available on the site.
1.d. LIVE PHASE:
If you demonstrate consistency by conducting quality trading, our risk team will analyze your trading in detail to propose a transition to a live account.This is the third phase of your trading journey at Zenit Funding.
Account Analysis Rules for Transitioning to a Funded Live Account at Zenit
When a user reaches a total of 10 withdrawals made from Funded Accounts (Performance Accounts - PA), an internal analysis of their trading will be conducted to determine their eligibility for a live funded account.
Example of cumulative Withdrawals:
- 50K Funded Accounts: You have 3 accounts and have made a total of 10 withdrawals amounting to €1,600.
- 150K Funded Accounts: You have 3 accounts and have made a total of 10 withdrawals amounting to €2,750.
- 300K Funded Accounts: You have 3 accounts and have made a total of 10 withdrawals amounting to €3,500.
In this case, your accounts will undergo an internal analysis to evaluate the consistency and quality of your trading, as well as your risk management (money management). This analysis will determine whether you are eligible to receive a funded real account with a maximum drawdown of up to €25,000.
Possible results of the internal analysis:
Option 1: Validation for a Zenit Live Account
If your trading is validated by the committee, you will receive a live funded account with a minimum drawdown authorization equal to your eligible active PA accounts.
Examples of drawdown calculation for the Live account:
- You have 3 eligible 50K Funded Accounts → Your live account will have a drawdown of 3 × €2, 500 = €7, 500.
- You have 2 eligible Funded Accounts: one 50K and one 300K → Your drawdown will be €2, 500 + €7, 500 = €10, 000.
- You have 3 eligible Funded Accounts: one 50K, one 150K, and one 300K → Your drawdown will be €2, 500 + €5, 000 + €7, 500 = €15, 000.
Important: All your previous PA Funded accounts will be permanently closed when transitioning to a Live account. You will no longer be able to trade on your old PA or request new ones. You will exclusively trade on your Zenit Live real account.
Option 2: Non-validation for a Zenit Live Account
If your trading is not validated by the committee, you will receive a detailed explanation of why your trading was not accepted. You will then be allowed to continue trading on your existing PA accounts, but no further withdrawals will be allowed.
➡ New chance for validation:
You can continue trading on your existing PA accounts to demonstrate that you are capable of improving your trading. After this phase, your case will be re-examined by the committee. If you show improvements and your trading becomes profitable, you may be potentially validated for a live account.
Consequences if the Live account is failed or lost:
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If you receive a live account and reach your maximum drawdown:
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You will no longer be part of the Zenit Live team and will not be allowed to trade at Zenit Funding for the next 9 months.
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If your trading is not validated after the second internal analysis:
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Your PA accounts will be canceled, and you will not be allowed to trade at Zenit Funding for the next 9 months.
Possibility of transition to a live account before 10 PAs:
Zenit Funding’s committee reserves the right to propose a transition to a funded live account at any time, even before
reaching 10 PA withdrawals, if a trader is deemed sufficiently competent and consistent in
their risk management. This opportunity will be offered at the discretion of the Zenit Funding
team, based on the overall performance evaluation and adherence to the trading quality
criteria.
2. TRADING COMMISSIONS:
Product |
Clearing & Commission Fees, Round-Turn |
CME Equity Futures |
E-mini S&P 500 (ES) |
$4.36 |
Micro E-mini S&P (MES) |
$1.42 |
Nikkei (NKD) |
$5.90 |
E-mini NASDAQ 100 (NQ) |
$4.36 |
Micro E-mini NASDAQ 100 (MNQ) |
$1.42 |
E-mini Russell 2000 (RTY) |
$4.36 |
Micro E-mini Russell 2000 (M2K) |
$1.42 |
Micro E-mini Bitcoin (MBT) |
$4.72 |
Micro E-mini Ether (MET) |
$0.92 |
CME Foreign Exchange Futures |
Australian $ (6A) |
$4.80 |
Micro AUD/USD (M6A) |
$1.20 |
British Pound (6B) |
$4.80 |
Canadian $ (6C) |
$4.80 |
Euro FX (6E) |
$4.80 |
Micro EUR/USD (M6E) |
$1.20 |
Japanese Yen (6J) |
$4.80 |
Swiss Franc (6S) |
$4.80 |
E-mini Euro FX (E7) |
$3.30 |
Mexican Peso (6M) |
$4.80 |
New Zealand $ (6N) |
$4.80 |
Micro GBP/USD (M6B) |
$1.20 |
CME Agricultural Futures |
Live Cattle (LE) |
$5.80 |
Lean Hogs (HE) |
$5.80 |
CME Interest Rate Futures |
Eurodollar (GE) |
$4.10 |
CME NYMEX Futures |
Crude Oil (CL) |
$4.60 |
Micro Crude Oil (MCL) |
$1.72 |
E-mini Crude Oil (QM) |
$4.00 |
Natural Gas (NG) |
$4.80 |
E-mini Natural Gas (QG) |
$2.60 |
RBOB Gasoline (RB) |
$4.60 |
Platinum (PL) |
$4.80 |
Heating Oil (HO) |
$4.60 |
Micro Henry Hub Natural Gas (MNG) |
$1.92 |
CME CBOT Commodity Futures |
Corn (ZC) |
$5.80 |
Wheat (ZW) |
$5.80 |
Soybeans (ZS) |
$5.80 |
Soybean Meal (ZM) |
$5.80 |
Soybean Oil (ZL) |
$5.80 |
CME CBOT Equity Futures |
Mini-DOW (YM) |
$4.36 |
Micro Mini-DOW (MYM) |
$1.42 |
CME CBOT Financial/Interest Rate Futures |
2-Year Note (ZT) |
$2.90 |
5-Year Note (ZF) |
$2.90 |
10-Year Note (ZN) |
$3.20 |
30-Year Bond (ZB) |
$3.34 |
Ultra-Bond (UB) |
$3.50 |
Ultra-Note (TN) |
$3.38 |
CME COMEX Futures |
Gold (GC) |
$4.80 |
Micro Gold (MGC) |
$1.72 |
Silver (SI) |
$4.80 |
Micro Silver (SIL) |
$2.72 |
Copper (HG) |
$4.80 |
Micro Copper (MHG) |
$1.92 |