Read this before you buy any evaluation. It forms part of our Terms of Service and is written in plain language on purpose.
1. Every account is simulated
Every account provided by Bold Funded Ltd, including accounts we describe as "funded", is a simulated trading account running on real market data. No real money is deposited, no real orders reach an exchange or liquidity provider, and the balances, equity and profits shown in your dashboard are not money held for you. Payouts are rewards calculated from simulated performance under the rules of your plan. Bold Funded is not a broker, exchange, adviser or fund, and is not licensed or supervised by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Saint Lucia or any other financial regulator.
2. You can lose the fee you pay
The evaluation, activation and reset fees are the only money you put at risk with Bold Funded, and you can lose all of it. Most evaluations are not passed on the first attempt; it is reasonable to expect that you may need more than one attempt, and each attempt costs a fee. Do not spend money on evaluations that you cannot afford to lose, and do not borrow to buy them.
3. Simulated results are not real-money results
Trading a simulated account differs from trading real money in ways that matter: order fills are modelled rather than matched against a real order book, slippage and liquidity may be better or worse than live conditions, there is no counterparty or exchange risk, and the psychology of trading without real capital at risk is different. Passing an evaluation, or receiving a payout, is evidence of performance under our rules on a simulation; it is not a guarantee that the same approach would be profitable with real capital, and it is not an indication of future results.
4. Leveraged products are high risk
The instruments you trade in the simulation, foreign exchange and CFDs on indices, metals, energies and crypto, and futures contracts on CME Group products, are leveraged instruments whose prices can move quickly and sharply, including through gaps around news and market opens. Trading them with real money carries a high risk of loss that can exceed the initial margin. Nothing about our evaluation changes that reality for anyone who later trades these instruments elsewhere.
5. No advice, and educational content is general
Nothing on our website, blog, guides, dashboard, emails or community channels is investment, financial, tax or legal advice, and nothing is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Our educational content explains how our rules work and describes general trading concepts. It does not take your circumstances into account. Decide for yourself, and consult a licensed professional if you need advice.
6. Rules are enforced by software, automatically
Our risk engine evaluates every rule on every tick and closes positions and fails accounts automatically when a rule is breached. Breaches caused by your trading, by a gap through your loss limit, by a platform disconnection on your side or by your own automation are final. Make sure you understand each rule, in particular the drawdown type of your plan, before you trade. Bold Funded Rules Explained and the plan card for your account size set out every rule.
7. Third-party platforms and data
We run our own platforms (Volt Futures and Volt Perps) and also rely on third-party platforms (MetaTrader 5, TradingView) and data providers (including CME Group and market-data vendors). They can have outages, delayed or incorrect data and maintenance windows that affect your account. We reinstate accounts where we establish that such an event caused an incorrect breach on our side, but we cannot remove the risk.
8. Payouts depend on conditions and on our business
Payouts are payable only when every condition of your plan is met and your identity has been verified. Payout amounts depend on your simulated performance and on the profit split of your plan, and are not guaranteed in amount or in timing beyond the commitments in our Terms. Like any business, Bold Funded depends on its revenue, providers and payment partners to keep operating; we publish how we are built to reduce that risk, but it is not zero.
9. Restricted regions
Forex (CFD) plans are not available to residents of the United States or Canada. Futures plans are available to United States residents. We do not provide services to residents of Saint Lucia or of countries under comprehensive sanctions. It is your responsibility to check that using the Services is lawful where you live.
10. Questions
If any part of this document is unclear, email support@boldfunded.com before you buy. We would rather answer a question now than a complaint later.