How does it work?

Zenit is a proprietary trading company, our goal is to fund and financially support talented traders.

You don’t need to invest your own funds to trade futures market. You only need to pay a fee to access all the necessary tools and platforms in order to demonstrate your trading skills.

• Choose an account type and register on our Website
• Choose trading capital
• Respect rules, and prove you can trade

1. Choose account type:

Zenit Funding offers two types of accounts ( “Starter” or “Pro”), so you'll first need to choose one. You can select either a lower-cost account that includes an evaluation phase or a slightly more expensive account that is directly funded (without an evaluation phase).

• Zenit Starter : Challenge
• Zenit Pro : Direct Funding

With the Zenit "Starter" account, you’ll first need to demonstrate your skills during an evaluation phase before gaining access to a funded account. This evaluation phase allows us to verify your ability to adhere to the rules outlined in this section.

With the Zenit "Pro" account, we provide you with a funded account right away. You can withdraw profits as soon as you reach the targets and follow the rules.

2. Choose trading capital:

Zenit offers four types of trading accounts, ranging from $25,000 to $300,000.

RULES “PRO” ACCOUNT:

In order to succeed, you need to respect these rules:

Profit Target rule: 5% of account

You need to make 5% of account value before requesting a payout ( ex, for a $25k account, you need to make at least $1250 of profit.

Maximum Drawdown rule: 5% of account

You cannot reach a maximum drawdown ( End-of-day ) of 5% or more ot the trading account value. If you reach that loss, your account will be deactivated.

Minimum days to request payout: 10 days

You need to trade 10 days to be able to request a payout

Flipping rule: 5% of the profit target

It is not permitted to validate a trading day by making only one or a few ticks of profit. We want to ensure that you are capable of trading consistently and steadily. Therefore, we have a rule that requires achieving a minimum P&L (profit and loss) of 5% of the target to validate a trading day.

You need to make 10 days in profit, while respecting the flipping rule (minimum daily P&L)

Consistency rule: 20%

You need to trade a strategy with consistency. Your best trading day (Profit and loss) must not be greater than 20% of your profit target.

When you ask a payout, 20 % of the profit balance cannot consist have been made on one trading day.

Buffer rule: 5% of account

In directly funded accounts, we want to ensure your sustainability in the financial markets. For this reason, we have established a rule requiring you to build a safety cushion before requesting a payout. This safety cushion is set at 5% of performance on the trading account. This means you need to achieve 5% as a cushion plus the target before requesting a payout. For example, on a $25,000 account, you would need to reach $1,250 as a safety cushion (5% of $25k) and an additional $1,250 as the target (5% of $25k), totaling $2,500 before you can request a payout of $1,250. Of course, you can also wait until the account has grown further before requesting a payout.

Size rule:

Each trading account has a maximum authorized trading size. You cannot trade more than this number of lots.

Inactivity rule:

The Performance Account stipulates the execution of at least one trade every five trading days and disallows inactivity exceeding five consecutive trading days. Should the account remain inactive for a period surpassing five trading days, it will undergo suspension without prior notice, and any remaining profits will be forfeited back to Zenit.

For traders desiring to temporarily suspend their trading activities for a prolonged period, it is mandatory to inform the support team and secure written approval. This authorization will detail the permissible pause duration, thereby officially pausing the trader's activities for the specified timeframe.

Trading hours:

In order to mitigate risks, we are only currently looking for intraday traders. This means you cannot trade overnight positions (only intraday).

RULES “STARTER” ACCOUNT:

The Growth account is designed for traders whose strategies are still being refined. It’s also better suited for beginner traders looking to gain experience at a lower cost. The difference lies in the reduced registration fee. In exchange for this price reduction, you will undergo an evaluation phase that allows us to assess your trading skills and strategy.

Follow all the rules, and you can then move to the "Funded" phase. Once in the funded phase, simply continue as before: reach the target while adhering to the rules, and you'll be eligible for payouts.

Profit Target rule in challenge

$25k : $1500 $50k : $3000 $150k : $9000 $300k : $20000

Maximum Drawdown rule in challenge

$25k : $1500 $50k : $2500 $150k : $5000 $300k : $7500

Profit Target rule when funded : 5% of account

You need to make 5% of account to succeed the challenge ( ex, for a $25k account, you need to make at least $1250 of profit). Then, when you are funded, you need to reach the same profit target to request payout.

Maximum Drawdown rule when funded : 5% of account

You cannot reach a maximum drawdown ( End-of-day ) of 5% or more ot the trading account value. If you reach that loss, your account will be lost.

Minimum days to request payout : 10 days

When you are uin funded phase, you need to trade 10 days to be able to request a payout

Flipping rule : 5% of the profit target

It is not permitted to validate a trading day by making only one or a few ticks of profit. We want to ensure that you are capable of trading consistently and steadily. Therefore, we have a rule that requires achieving a minimum P&L (profit and loss) of 5% of the target to validate a trading day.

You need to make 10 days in profit, while respecting the flipping rule (minimum daily P&L)

Consistency rule : 30%

You need to trade a strategy with consistency. Your best trading day (Profit and loss) must not be greater than 20% of your profit target.

When you ask a payout, 20 % of the profit balance cannot consist have been made on one trading day.

Buffer rule : No

There is no buffer needed in the “Growth”

Minimum account balance P&L rule:

When you request a payout, you must always maintain a minimum balance of 10% of the account value ( For example, you have a $25k account, you made $1250 profit, you need to leave $250 on the account (10% of account value) , so you can request $1000).

Size rule :

Each trading account has a maximum authorized trading size. You cannot trade more than this number of lots.

Inactivity rule :

The Performance Account stipulates the execution of at least one trade every five trading days and disallows inactivity exceeding five consecutive trading days. Should the account remain inactive for a period surpassing five trading days, it will undergo suspension without prior notice, and any remaining profits will be forfeited back to Zenit.

For traders desiring to temporarily suspend their trading activities for a prolonged period, it is mandatory to inform the support team and secure written approval. This authorization will detail the permissible pause duration, thereby officially pausing the trader's activities for the specified timeframe.

Trading hours :

In order to mitigate risks, we are only currently looking for intraday traders. This means you cannot trade overnight positions (only intraday).

OTHER RULES AND PROHIBITED PRACTICES :

We want no confusion on payout rules. So, we have built flexible rules that enables you to trade your own trading system.

However, We are systematically monitoring every trading account to detect if you try to fraud or if you do not respect rules. We use multiple proprietary system to detect irrelevant trading schemes and prevent fraud.

To mitigate Prohibited Conduct, gambling behavior and exploiting the simulated environment will be subject to review by our Risk and Compliance Team. If we identifie trading activity that is Prohibited, we reserve the right to, delete the trading day and all profits, restart the account or close the account.

So read theses rules carefully:

• We do not force you to set up a fix stop loss, or a specific risk/reward rule.
  You can trade mental stops, no need to setup a stop-loss order.
  You can trade daily stop loss.
  We let you trade your own trading style. However, we strongly recommend you to have strict risk management rules if you want to be profitable.
  
• We don’t want people looking to fraud by taking advantage and just work the system.
  You are not allowed to Intentionally or unintentionally employ trading strategies that take advantage of errors within the system, such as inaccuracies in price display or delays in updating.
  We want traders that execute strategies that would fit live trading account. We don’t want people abusing and taking advantage of to blow accounts through risk capital, forcing all risk and loss on the company while trying to set up windfall payouts to schemers. We don’t accept payouts if you try to benefit from the prop firm system to build a trading strategy.
  
• You can dollar cost average positions, adding into trading positions, but this should not be a martingale strategy
  Trade the same way that you would trade a live trading account. You can scale your trade in a few trading clips, but you can not continuously add multiple entries and add more and more to a losing position. This would not be profitable on the long run.
  
• We want to evaluate your capacity to be consistent.
  You need to trade a strategy with consistency.
  Your best trading day (Profit and loss) must not be greater than 20% of your profit target.
  When you ask a payout, 20 % of the profit balance cannot consist have been made on one trading day.
  
• Do not reach your maximum drawdown limit
• Consistency rule
  You need to trade a strategy with consistency. Your best trading day (Profit and loss) must not be greater than 20% of your profit target.
  When you ask a payout, 20 % of the profit balance cannot consist have been made on one trading day.
  
• Trader cannot place a non directional in both direction to catch up a move during exceptional moves ( news, .. ).
  You should not have a limit order to go long and another one to go short at the same time. This is not a consistent live trading strategy. You are not allowed to use bracketing strategy by opening pending orders around high-impact news. It consists of opening buy and sell stops close to the price before the news.
  
• You are not allowed to use a copy trading service, or use a financial advisor service. The trading account should be traded only by you. We want to assess your personal ability to trade. However, you can duplicate your trading accounts by copying one of your accounts.
  
• You are not allowed to use an algorithm or High frequency trading where you don’t own the code.
  The trading account should be traded only by you. We want to assess your personal ability to trade. ex: you subscribe to a service where you receive pre-built trading algorithms without access to the underlying source code, without understanding how they operate or being able to customize them to their needs.
• You need to respect the maximum position size of the trading account.
  
• You need reach your profit target to obtain payout.
  
• You cannot hold positions overnight, overweek.
  Swing trading is not permitted, we only want to fund day traders with no overnight risks.
• You are not allowed to let someone else trade your own account.
  The trading account should be traded only by you. We want to assess your personal ability to trade.
• You are not allowed to trade during news.
  We don’t want risk in big potential market moves. We want consistency.
• You need to respect the min-max amount payout policy.
  Minimum payout is $250
  Maximum payout for 5 days first payout are:
  $25.000 account : $1000
  $50.000 account : $1250
  $150.000 account : $1500
  
  Account Max Withdrawals for 10 Day Payout: $25.000 account– $1500
  $50.000 account – $2000
  $150000 account : $3000
  $300000 account : $4000
  
• You need to respect the Payout period
  If you are funded, you can ask a payout after 10 trading days.
• Flipping rule
  You need to respect the flipping rules explained above. You need to make at least 5% of the target to validate a trading day.
• We want to see that you have a strategy and defined rules
  
• The trader shall not use hedging / spread trading
  For example, trading Mini / full contracts versus micros contracts is prohibited.
  Trader shall not do spread trading ( for example S&P vs Nasqad, or trade long / short correlated product/ commodities, … )
  Trader should not use long / short strategies.
  Trader should not Use exploitation of price discrepancies or glitches within different markets of similar or identical assets, also known as Arbitrage Trading
  
• You are not allowed to market make bonds for 1 tick
  That strategy would not work in live markets.
• You are not allowed to use Account Management Services “Pass your Challenge” type. You are not allowed to use account Sharing or Reselling accounts with other individuals or entities.
  We want you to trade your own strategy

If your account has been found abusing the system and violating the trading rules, we will terminate the entire relationship between you and the company and/or suspend, block and/or restrict your access to the services for specific functions immediately. Any refund or profit will not be processed and you will be permanently banned.