Getting started with FairTicks
Start here if you are new to FairTicks. This guide explains how the simulated evaluation works, what to review before trading, how the account models differ, and how Training, Qualified Account progression, and payout eligibility remain separate stages.
Understand the rules before you trade. Review the selected account model, Account Snapshot, contracts, active risk rules, lifecycle conditions, and payout requirements before purchasing an account or opening a position.
What FairTicks is
FairTicks is a simulated trading evaluation platform. Traders use Training Accounts to demonstrate performance inside a structured, rules-based evaluation environment.
When an eligible Training Account satisfies its applicable requirements and the pass is processed, a Qualified Account may be generated according to the account rules, eligibility checks, and platform process.
A Qualified Account is a separate simulated stage. It has its own account state, lifecycle, rule snapshot, Performance Cycles, Qualified Profit Day requirements, payout conditions, and other account-specific parameters.
FairTicks is not a broker or exchange. Trades are simulated inside the FairTicks environment. FairTicks records the account state, simulated balance and equity, PnL, positions, risk floors, rule events, progression, lifecycle events, and payout-related status applied to the account.
Passing a Training Account, receiving a Qualified Account, and becoming eligible to request a payout are three separate stages. Completing one stage does not automatically complete the next.
The FairTicks journey
A typical FairTicks journey looks like this:
Choose an account model → receive a Training Account → trade under its Account Snapshot → satisfy the Training requirements → Training pass is processed → eligible Qualified Account is generated → trade the Qualified Account → complete Qualified Performance Cycle requirements → satisfy the payout checklist → submit a payout request.
| Step | What it means | Important article |
|---|---|---|
| Understand FairTicks | Learn what FairTicks is and what simulated evaluation means. | What is FairTicks? |
| Choose a model | Compare Rapid, Classic, Discipline, and Instinct. | Account Models Overview |
| Review your rules | Understand the exact rules and lifecycle parameters attached to the specific account. | Account Snapshot |
| Trade Training | Trade inside the account rules and satisfy the applicable Training requirements. | Evaluation Process |
| Understand Qualified | Learn what happens after an eligible Training Account passes and a Qualified Account is generated. | Qualified Accounts |
| Build payout eligibility | Trade the Qualified Account and satisfy the applicable Performance Cycle and payout conditions. | Payouts |
Try FairTicks before purchasing
Eligible traders can use a 7-day Free Trial to explore the FairTicks simulated environment before purchasing a paid Training Account.
A Free Trial is intended for platform discovery. It is not a payout-eligible account and does not itself create payout eligibility.
Free Trial availability, eligible trial models, creation limits, restart eligibility, and other trial conditions are controlled by the applicable FairTicks Free Trial rules. Review the dedicated Free Trial documentation before starting.
Recommended reading order
If you are new to FairTicks, this reading order gives you a practical path from the product model to execution, risk, progression, and payout.
- What is FairTicks? — understand the simulated evaluation model.
- Free Trials — understand how the 7-day platform trial works.
- Account Models Overview — compare Rapid, Classic, Discipline, and Instinct.
- Account Snapshot — understand which rules belong to one specific account.
- Evaluation Process — understand Training progression and Qualified Account generation.
- Contracts System — understand NANO, MICRO, MINI, tick value, and exposure.
- Exposure & Position Control — understand position sizing, exposure controls, and position limits.
- Official FairTicks PnL — understand balance, equity, open PnL, realized PnL, and recorded costs.
- Risk Monitor — understand live floors, remaining room, and risk states.
- Daily Loss — understand the Daily Loss rule and configured profit-room behavior where enabled.
- Maximum Loss & EOD Floor — understand account-level EOD Maximum Loss behavior where enabled.
- Trailing Drawdown — understand the live-equity trailing mechanism used on applicable accounts such as Instinct.
- R-01 Risk Per Trade — understand account-specific Stop Loss and planned-risk validation.
- Near-breach Detection — understand Safe, Warning, High, Critical, and Breach states.
- Performance Cycles — understand Qualified cycle snapshots and progression.
- Qualified Profit Days — understand the QPD requirement attached to the active Qualified Performance Cycle.
- Payouts — understand the full payout checklist.
Getting started articles
These articles cover the main concepts to understand before purchasing or trading an account.
What is FairTicks?
Understand the simulated evaluation model, Training Accounts, Qualified progression, and the FairTicks framework.
Free Trials
Explore FairTicks through the 7-day simulated trial and understand the applicable trial conditions.
Account Models Overview
Compare Rapid, Classic, Discipline, and Instinct by their current structure, risk rules, targets, validity, and lifecycle options.
Account Snapshot
Understand the exact configuration recorded for a specific FairTicks account.
Evaluation Process
Learn how Training Accounts are created, traded, passed, breached, expired, reset, extended, or followed by Qualified Account generation where eligible.
Qualified Accounts
Understand what happens after Training, how Qualified rules are recorded, how Performance Cycles work, and why payout remains a separate stage.
Before you choose an account
Compare the complete account structure rather than looking only at account size or profit target. Risk rules, lifecycle conditions, validity, reset eligibility, progression requirements, and payout parameters can materially change how an account behaves.
| Question | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Which rule structure matches the way I intend to trade? | Rapid, Classic, Discipline, and Instinct use different combinations of risk rules and lifecycle conditions. |
| Do I understand the Stop Loss configuration on the selected account? | Stop Loss requirements and planned-risk controls are account-specific. Review the Account Snapshot and R-01 documentation before entry. |
| Do I understand which hard loss boundary applies to the selected account? | Daily Loss, EOD Maximum Loss, and Trailing Drawdown do not apply identically to every account family. An enabled hard loss boundary can breach the account. |
| Can I manage contracts and exposure calmly? | Contract selection changes tick value and therefore the simulated PnL and risk impact of market movement. |
| Do I understand Training validity and lifecycle options? | Validity, reset availability, extension availability, and other lifecycle conditions depend on the selected product and Account Snapshot. |
| Do I understand that payout is not automatic after passing? | Payout is evaluated later on the Qualified Account against a separate payout checklist. |
Understand account models first
FairTicks account families use different combinations of targets, hard-risk rules, validity, lifecycle options, and progression conditions. Review the selected product and its Account Snapshot before trading.
| Model | Current core structure | Important distinction |
|---|---|---|
| Rapid | Training structure without an active Daily Loss rule and with an EOD-based Maximum Loss rule under the current standard configuration. | Built around a shorter evaluation rhythm. Reset and extension availability are restricted under the current standard structure. |
| Classic | Training structure with Daily Loss, EOD Maximum Loss, Training Consistency, and the target configuration attached to the selected account. | Uses a more balanced rule structure with account-specific lifecycle conditions. |
| Discipline | Training structure with Daily Loss, EOD Maximum Loss, Training Consistency, and account-specific planned-risk controls. | Stop Loss is not a mandatory breach rule under the current standard Discipline configuration. When a Stop Loss is used, the applicable planned-risk validation is enforced according to the account rules. |
| Instinct | Structure centered on an Intraday Trailing Drawdown rather than the standard Daily Loss and EOD Maximum Loss combination. | Trailing parameters, validity, and other lifecycle conditions are defined by the selected account and its snapshot. |
Read Account Models Overview and the selected account’s Account Snapshot before purchasing or trading.
The Account Snapshot matters
FairTicks products can have different rule combinations, limits, lifecycle settings, and progression requirements. The Account Snapshot records the configuration attached to a specific account.
When reviewing how a specific account operates, use that account’s current snapshot and FairTicks platform records rather than assuming that every account in the same family has identical historical or promotional parameters.
Learn how Account Snapshots work →
Understand the main risk rules
Risk rules are central to FairTicks. A profitable account can still breach if an enabled hard-risk condition is reached.
Risk Monitor
See active risk floors, remaining room, consumed risk, equity pressure, and the current risk state.
Daily Loss
Understand the Daily Loss rule and configured profit-room behavior on accounts where the rule is enabled.
Maximum Loss & EOD Floor
Understand the EOD-based Maximum Loss framework used by applicable account models.
Trailing Drawdown
Understand the live-equity trailing mechanism, persistent reference behavior, and account-specific trailing parameters where enabled.
R-01 Risk Per Trade
Understand account-specific Stop Loss requirements, planned-risk validation, and order rejection conditions.
Violations & Breaches
Learn what can breach an account, what does not, and what happens after a hard breach.
Understand trading mechanics
Before opening positions, make sure you understand the trading tools, contract system, and account mechanics.
Contracts System
Understand NANO, MICRO, MINI, logical tick value, contract availability, and position sizing.
Exposure & Position Control
Learn how exposure controls the size and account impact of open positions and why some orders can be blocked.
Official FairTicks PnL
Understand how FairTicks records open PnL, realized PnL, balance, equity, and applicable costs.
Position Management
Understand closing, partial closing, Break Even, Reverse, Stop Loss, and Take Profit controls.
Take Profit
Understand optional logical-tick profit exits and how they interact with positions.
Reverse Trade
Learn how Reverse closes the current position and attempts to open the opposite direction, subject to applicable account controls.
DOM Focus Mode
Use the focused trading view to give the ladder more workspace without changing account rules.
Understand your personal settings
FairTicks provides Trader Settings that let you personalize parts of your trading workspace, including supported protection behavior, presets, shortcuts, and alerts.
Trader Settings can change how your workspace behaves.
They do not rewrite the Account Snapshot, remove hard-risk rules, change payout requirements, or alter account history.
Read Trader Settings before relying on shortcuts, presets, or configurable workspace protections.
Understand Qualified Accounts
Passing Training does not turn the same Training Account into a payout-ready account. Qualified is a separate stage with its own state, rules, account lifecycle, and payout progression.
Qualified Accounts can operate through Performance Cycles. Cycle-specific values such as applicable consistency settings, Qualified Profit Day requirements, and reward-share parameters can be snapshotted for the cycle according to the account configuration.
Read Qualified Accounts and Performance Cycles before expecting payout eligibility.
Understand payout before expecting payout
Payout is only available on an eligible Qualified Account after all applicable payout conditions are satisfied.
Passing Training or receiving a Qualified Account does not automatically unlock a payout request.
| Payout area | What to read |
|---|---|
| Qualified Account progression | Qualified Accounts |
| Performance Cycles | Performance Cycles |
| Qualified Profit Days | Qualified Profit Days |
| Payout checklist and capacity | Payouts |
| KYC verification | KYC Verification |
| Consistency requirement | Consistency Rule |
| Official PnL reference | Official FairTicks PnL |
Payout requests require no open positions. Open PnL is not realized payout profit. The amount that can be requested is subject to eligible realized profit, payout capacity, applicable reserve requirements, account status, and the complete payout checklist.
Lifecycle articles you may need later
These articles become important when your account changes status or you need a lifecycle action.
Account Snapshot
Review the exact rules, limits, lifecycle settings, and payout-related conditions attached to one account.
Performance Cycles
Understand Qualified cycle snapshots, Consistency, Qualified Profit Days, reward-share progression, and cycle transitions.
Account Statuses
Understand the account statuses used by FairTicks and what each status means for account access and progression.
Reset Accounts
Learn how reset eligibility works, what a reset changes, what it preserves, and which account families support it.
Extend Evaluation
Understand when an extension can add time, what remains unchanged, and which accounts are eligible.
Unused Free Trial Restart
Learn when an eligible expired, never-traded Free Trial can reactivate the same account for another 7-day trial period.
Account Expiration
Understand what happens when an account reaches its applicable validity limit before satisfying the required progression conditions.
Common beginner mistakes
| Mistake | Better understanding |
|---|---|
| Thinking FairTicks is a broker | FairTicks is a simulated trading evaluation platform. |
| Choosing the biggest account without understanding its rules | Compare the complete rule structure, lifecycle, and Account Snapshot before choosing. |
| Assuming every account family uses the same loss rules | Daily Loss, EOD Maximum Loss, and Intraday Trailing Drawdown are account-specific and are not enabled identically across all models. |
| Assuming Discipline always requires a Stop Loss | Under the current standard Discipline configuration, Stop Loss is optional rather than a mandatory breach condition. Applicable planned-risk controls still apply when it is used. |
| Ignoring contracts and tick value | Contract selection determines how much each logical tick affects the simulated position. |
| Thinking open PnL is final profit | Open PnL remains unrealized and changes until the position is closed. |
| Thinking passed Training means instant payout | Training pass, Qualified Account generation, Qualified progression, and payout eligibility are separate stages. |
| Ignoring the payout checklist | Payout eligibility can depend on the Qualified Account age, required Qualified Profit Days, eligible realized profit, payout capacity, reserve requirements, account state, no active payout request, no open positions, KYC when required, and valid payout details. |
| Changing Trader Settings and thinking account rules changed | Trader Settings personalize supported workspace behavior. The account rules remain governed by the Account Snapshot. |
Common questions
What should I read first?
Start with What is FairTicks?, then Free Trials, Account Models Overview, Account Snapshot, Evaluation Process, Contracts System, Official FairTicks PnL, and the risk articles that apply to the account you intend to trade.
Can I start trading without reading everything?
You should understand the rules that materially affect your account before opening a position. In particular, review your Account Snapshot, enabled loss rules, contracts, exposure controls, lifecycle conditions, and applicable progression requirements.
Which account model should I choose?
Compare the complete account structures rather than choosing from a single headline feature. Rapid, Classic, Discipline, and Instinct use different combinations of targets, risk rules, validity, lifecycle options, and progression conditions.
Review Account Models Overview and the Account Snapshot for the specific account before purchasing.
Does Discipline require a Stop Loss?
Under the current standard Discipline configuration, Stop Loss is optional and is not itself a mandatory breach condition. When a Stop Loss is used, applicable planned-risk validation is enforced according to the account’s rules.
Always review the specific Account Snapshot because account configuration is the account-level reference.
Is payout guaranteed if I pass Training?
No. Passing Training can make the account eligible for the next stage, but payout is evaluated later on the Qualified Account. All applicable payout conditions must be satisfied.
Is the amount shown as profit automatically withdrawable?
No. Open PnL is not realized payout profit, and even eligible realized profit can be subject to payout-capacity calculations, reserve requirements, account rules, and the rest of the payout checklist.
What is the reference if an external chart differs from FairTicks?
External charts and market-data displays can differ from the FairTicks simulated environment. For account-specific outcomes, use the records produced by FairTicks, including position history, account timeline, recorded prices, risk state, rule events, PnL records, and payout status, to understand what the platform applied to the account.
Can account rules change while I am trading?
The rules applied to a specific account are represented by that account’s recorded configuration and Account Snapshot. Review the Account Snapshot whenever you need to understand which rules apply to that account.
Summary
Getting started with FairTicks means understanding the framework before trading: simulated accounts, Free Trials, account models, Account Snapshots, contracts, exposure, hard-risk rules, official PnL, Qualified Performance Cycles, Qualified Profit Days, payout eligibility, lifecycle conditions, and Trader Settings.
The most important principle is simple: understand the rules attached to your account before you trade, and use the Account Snapshot and FairTicks platform records to understand how that account is being evaluated.
FairTicks is a rules-based simulated trading evaluation platform in which progression depends on satisfying the conditions attached to each account and stage.
Start with the framework, not the trade button.
Understand your Account Snapshot, account model, contracts, risk floors, official PnL, Qualified progression, and payout rules before opening positions.
New to FairTicks?
Read the recommended articles in order before purchasing or trading. If a rule or account condition is unclear, contact FairTicks Support before opening a position.