Challenge Retry
A challenge retry is a trader's reattempt of a failed prop firm evaluation, typically requiring a new fee payment and restarting the evaluation from scratch.
What it means in practice
A challenge retry occurs when a trader who has failed a prop firm challenge — by breaching a drawdown limit, missing the profit target, or violating risk rules — purchases a new attempt at the same or similar evaluation. Most prop firms allow unlimited retries as long as the trader pays the reset fee or a new challenge fee each time. Some firms offer discounted retry pricing to encourage reattempts.
For prop firm operators, challenge retries represent a significant and recurring revenue stream. Industry data suggests that challenge pass rates typically range from 5-15%, meaning the majority of challenge purchasers will either fail and retry or abandon the process entirely. Operators design retry pricing and policies to balance revenue generation with trader motivation — overly expensive retries discourage reattempts, while very cheap retries may reduce the perceived value of the challenge.
From an affiliate perspective, retries multiply the effective value of each referred trader. A single referral who retries three times generates three challenge purchases, potentially tripling the affiliate's CPA earnings if the program pays per purchase rather than per unique user. Affiliates should understand whether the operator's commission structure pays on initial purchases only or includes retries, as this significantly affects earning potential.
How Challenge Retry works across industries
See how challenge retry is applied in the verticals Track360 supports, from qualification logic and payout structure to the operational context behind each model.
How Track360 handles this
Track360 tracks challenge purchases and retries as separate conversion events, allowing operators to measure retry rates per affiliate and calculate true cost-per-funded-trader. Commission rules can be configured to pay affiliates on retries, initial purchases only, or at different rates for each.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about challenge retry, how it works in affiliate programs, and where it shows up across Track360's supported verticals.
Retry costs vary by firm and account size. Some firms charge the full original challenge fee, while others offer discounts of 10-20% for retries. A few firms provide free retries under specific conditions, such as failing close to the profit target without breaching drawdown limits.
Related Terms
Reset Fee
A reset fee is a discounted payment a trader makes to restart an evaluation challenge after failing, allowing them to re-enter the same challenge tier without purchasing a full new challenge at the original price.
Challenge Fee
A challenge fee is the payment a trader makes to enter a prop firm evaluation challenge, often serving as the basis for affiliate commission calculations in prop trading programs.
Prop Firm Challenge
A prop firm challenge is a paid evaluation process where traders must meet profit targets and risk limits within a simulated account to qualify for a funded trading account.
Challenge Pass Rate
Challenge pass rate is the percentage of traders who successfully complete a prop firm evaluation and receive a funded account.
Challenge Purchase
A challenge purchase is the primary conversion event in prop trading affiliate programs -- when a trader buys a funded account evaluation or challenge from a prop trading firm.
Profit Target
A profit target is the percentage gain a trader must achieve during a prop firm evaluation phase to qualify for a funded account.
Drawdown
Drawdown is the maximum loss a trader is allowed to incur -- either in a single day or cumulatively -- before their challenge or funded account is terminated by the prop trading firm.
Two-Phase Evaluation
A two-phase evaluation is a prop firm challenge model requiring traders to pass two sequential stages with distinct profit targets before receiving a funded account.
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