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What your failed challenges really cost

Every challenge, reset and fee added up, then put in the unit you trade in. Filled with an example: change any number and the result follows.

Result

Enter your numbers to see the result.

Arithmetic on the numbers you entered. No pass rates, no forecast.

The bill, added up

A failed challenge rarely feels like one number. The fee was paid weeks ago, the reset felt like a second chance, the data subscription is a separate line. Added together, they are a cost like any other, and it belongs in the same place as your trading results.

  • Total = challenge price × challenges bought + reset price × resets + other fees.
  • In R = total ÷ your risk per trade. It is the number of full losing trades the challenges cost.
  • Profit needed = total ÷ your payout share. At 90%, every $90 back to you needs $100 of profit.
  • Days = profit needed ÷ (your daily result in R × your risk per trade), rounded up.

Example: three challenges at $165, two resets at $99 and $130 of other fees make $823. At $200 a trade that is 4.1R. Keeping 90% of payouts, you need $914 of profit. At +1R a day, that is 5 days.

What the days mean, and what they don't

The days are a translation, not a prediction. They assume you reach a funded account, that the days you counted end at the result you entered, and that the rule you trade with is kept on each of them. The page doesn't know how likely any of that is, and it doesn't pretend to. It has no pass rates and no averages from other traders.

What it can show is the size of the hole in your own unit. If the challenges cost 4R, the next one isn't a fresh start: it starts 4R down. Trying to make it back inside the next evaluation, by sizing up, is one way the next fee gets added to the total.

Before buying the next one

Look at why the last ones ended. If it was the daily limit, the daily loss limit calculator sets a personal limit under the firm's. If it was size, the position size calculator fixes it before the trade. If it was the same habit each time, that habit is what to change first, and the diagnostic below names it.

Questions

Does this calculator tell me my chances of passing?

No. It has no pass rates and makes no forecast. It adds up what you entered and converts the total into R and into days at the result you chose. Whether those days happen is up to the trading.

Why show the cost in R?

Because R is the unit you trade in. $800 is an abstract number; eight full losing trades at $100 each is something you can picture on a chart.

What does the payout share change?

Funded accounts usually pay you a share of the profit, not all of it. If you keep 90%, you need to make the cost divided by 0.9 to get the money back. Enter the share in your firm's current terms; 100% leaves the total unchanged.

What should I count as other fees?

Anything you paid to trade the challenge that isn't the challenge price or a reset: activation fees, market data, a platform subscription. Leave out what you would pay anyway.

Find what ended the last ones

If your challenges keep ending the same way, look for the habit that repeats: the trade after the limit, the stop moved to avoid a loss, the re-entry right after one. The free diagnostic finds the one that costs you the most, in 90 seconds, with no signup. The app turns it into one rule with a number and a 30-second check after each session.

Find your costliest habit Open the free app