Daily Funded Sessions

The Daily Funded Session is the most popular way to earn real, withdrawable money on the Open tier. This section runs from what it is through the exact payout mechanics.

3.1 What is a Daily Funded Session?

A Daily Funded Session turns your free $10,000 qualification account into a fully funded account for 24 hours. For the length of that window, you are trading real funded capital, and the profit you make is withdrawable , your quality-scored share is paid into your Wallet.

• Cost: $29.95 to start a session. (If you win one in a giveaway, that fee is

covered for you.)

• Duration: a full 24 hours of funded trading.
• Why one day: it's a short feedback loop with real stakes , you get a complete,

scored result quickly, which is great for building skill and a track record fast.

In plain terms: you already have a free $10,000 account. You pay $29.95 to make it fully funded for a day. You trade your own way. If you end the day in profit, The Desk checks how you made it (your Snap Quality Score) and pays you that share.

3.2 Starting a session: step by step

Prerequisites:

• An Open (or higher) membership , you already have the free $10,000 account.
• Your trading Agreement signed.
• The session fee ($29.95) available , paid from your Wallet (cash or Desk Credit),

or covered by a giveaway prize.

To start:

1. Go to your dashboard and choose to start a Daily Funded Session.
2. Confirm the session and the fee.
3. Your $10,000 account becomes fully funded and the 24-hour clock begins.

Timing , read this carefully: the session runs for a fixed 24-hour window on platform time. You can start one now, or schedule it. Only one active funded session applies to your account at a time. The window's start and end are shown in your dashboard so you always know how long you have.

3.3 Trading your session

Once your session is live, you trade your funded $10,000 account like any account , but with the Snap Quality Score watching how you do it.

• What you can trade: the platform's available symbols, during their market

hours. (See Section 7.3 for the symbol reference.)

• Sizing and exposure: keep positions sanely sized. Oversized notional directly

lowers your exposure factor (one of the 8 Snap factors) and shrinks your share.

• Drawdown: how far your equity falls from its session peak is the single biggest factor on your share , but it works as a smooth fade, not a cliff.

As your drawdown grows toward the limit, the drawdown factor tapers smoothly toward zero, so a deep-drawdown session simply earns very little , there is no sudden breach or disqualification. Protect your drawdown and this factor stays high; let it run deep and your share fades to almost nothing on its own.

• Watch it live: your live Snap Quality and projected share update as you trade,

so you can see in real time how each decision affects your payout. Use it , if you see your quality slipping, you can adjust before the window closes.

3.4 How your payout is calculated

This is the part worth understanding precisely.

Step 1 , session PnL. At the end of the 24-hour window, The Desk computes your session profit (your ending session equity versus where you started).

Step 2 , Snap Quality Score. Your trading over the session is scored across the 8 Snap factors (2.4): trade-count/sample, top-trade concentration, symbol concentration, exposure, windfall compression, drawdown, news proximity, and scalp , plus a hard gate.

Step 3 , your share. The Snap Quality Score sets the fraction of your session profit you keep , scaling up to 100% for clean, disciplined trading. The higher your quality, the larger your slice of the same dollar profit.

What shrinks or voids a payout: most factors taper your share smoothly; a couple act as true gates that can take it to zero on their own. The main ones:

• Deep drawdown , fades your share smoothly toward zero (the biggest single lever, but not a hard gate).
• Too few trades , a true gate: a one-click "sample" isn't a real session.
• Extreme concentration , one trade or one symbol carrying almost all the

profit.

• Oversized exposure , betting far too large.
• Profit overly bunched around news spikes.

Worked examples:

Same dollar profit, very different payout , because The Desk pays for quality.

Step 4 , payout to Wallet. Your share is deposited to your Wallet as withdrawable cash (withdrawable after KYC, Section 6).

3.5 After the session: results and records

When your session ends:

• Session summary: you can review what happened , your PnL, your Snap Quality

factor breakdown, and your final share.

• Permanent record: each finished session is recorded as a permanent part of

your history.

• Toward your record: each session adds to your trading history and sharpens your skills.

(Rating itself is earned through Room competition, not from sessions.) A well-traded session both pays you now and prepares you to compete.

3.6 Sessions FAQ and troubleshooting

"My session ended but I don't see a payout." First, a session only pays out if it ended in profit and cleared the quality gates. If your session was flat, negative, or your share faded to nothing (e.g. a deep drawdown, or it tripped a gate like too few trades), there's no positive share to deposit. If you did end in clean profit and still see nothing after the window fully closes, check your Wallet transaction history, then contact support (Section 10.4).

"Why was my share lower than expected?" Your share is your Snap Quality Score applied to your profit , not the full profit. The usual culprits are concentration (one trade or symbol carried it), oversized exposure, deep drawdown, or too few trades. Your session summary shows the factor breakdown so you can see which factor pulled it down.

Risk cautions. The session scoring is, in effect, a coach: it pays you the most for disciplined trading. Avoid over-leverage, single oversized positions, betting everything on one symbol, and trading recklessly around news , all of these both lower your share and risk gating it.