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Darwinex Zero: new subscription service – what is it and how it works?

Darwinex has been helping traders to attract investor capital for the last 11 years, and now our new offering, Darwinex Zero, builds on that success. Even for extremely talented traders, the evolution from trading as a hobby to serious revenue generation can be difficult if they don’t have adequate trading capital. Darwinex has always provided a solution to this, but now with Darwinex Zero, you don’t need any trading capital at all. In this article, you’ll see:

  • Why Darwinex Zero – A letter from the founders
  • What is Darwinex Zero
  • What is a Virtual Trading Account
  • Darwinex Zero Sign-up Process
  • The Training Phase
  • How traders attract capital in Darwinex Zero
    • DarwinIA SILVER: The first stage of the Seed Capital Allocation Programme
    • DarwinIA GOLD: The second stage of the Seed Capital Allocation Programme
    • Investor Capital
  • Pricing

The reasons behind Darwinex Zero

Our clients know that innovation and evolution are in our DNA. Darwinex Zero was created to enhance our offering in areas where we believed we had room for improvement. We are convinced that D-Zero reinforces our vision and the ecosystem we have created over the years.

You can read more about the founders’ view here.

What is Darwinex Zero

Darwinex Zero (also referred to as D-Zero) is a monthly subscription service that enables traders to build their track record and raise investor capital from a virtual trading account, with zero risk. D-Zero provides you with a virtual trading account that you can use to attract investment to your trading strategy. If you generate a profit on those investments, you’ll receive 15% of that to reward you for your skills. That’s real money for you to withdraw and use as you choose.

Whats is a Virtual Trading Account?

Darwinex Zero virtual trading accounts have virtual funds and are hosted on a real server, simulating real market conditions such as latency and market depth. Darwinex Zero does not offer demo accounts as they don’t provide the real and professional environment we want our traders to develop in.

Darwinex Zero Sign-up Process

Because you’ll be trading with a virtual account, the sign-up process is more straightforward and quicker than applying for a standard brokerage account. You can click on any of the numerous ‘Get Started’ or ‘Sign up’ buttons on the Darwinex Zero website. They will bring you to the beginning of the registration process:

You’ll start by providing some personal details and next, you’ll choose the type of virtual trading account you’d like:

  • Forex & CFDs on MT5
  • Forex & CFDs on MT4

After choosing your account and checking the Terms & Conditions, you’ll need to fill out the complete form: The top half of the form asks for additional personal details, and you can enter your credit card details underneath:

After making the payment, verifying your D-Zero account, and setting your passwords, you will have already received your login and password details for your MetaTrader MT4 or MT5 account.

The Training Phase

Everyone starts their journey with D-Zero at what we call Stage 0: the ‘Training Stage’. During this phase, all you need to do is trade in your virtual account in the same way you’d normally trade. We’ll ask you to accrue a number of trading decisions over a minimum of 10 trading days, enabling our risk engine to analyse your trading style and perform an initial assessment of how you manage risk so that it can calibrate accordingly.

Basically, the trades you place in your signal account produce trading signals that are then analysed by the Darwinex risk engine. The engine then generates your DARWIN Index which is based on your trades, but with an adjusted level of risk, so that risk is comparable with all other DARWINs on the platform.

Even though at this stage your DARWIN isn’t yet created, you’ve already been allocated a 4-character DARWIN Ticker. This is unique to you and is what will be used to identify your DARWIN in the future.

You’ll be able to see your progress towards your DARWIN being created on this panel on the right:

Once both of these reach 100%, the training stage is complete and the risk engine has all the information it needs for your DARWIN Index to be created (bear in mind that there is a maximum of 90 days period for you to complete the training phase). We’ll just need you to give us permission to read and copy your trades which will then underpin your DARWIN Index. You’ll see this “Become a Signal Provider” panel appear on the platform:

To give us permission you need to click on “Accept Terms & Conditions” and then confirm that you have read and agree with them. Following this, your DARWIN will be created the following weekend.

Note that DARWINs only get created when all markets are closed and so this will happen on the first weekend after you meet the criteria, and then the DARWIN will become visible on that Monday. You’ll be able to see the status in the green countdown panel.

Following this, you’ll soon be participating in the first tier of the Capital Allocation Programme – DarwinIA SILVER

How traders attract capital in Darwinex Zero

Once you have your DARWIN, you’ll participate in our monthly Seed Capital Allocation Programme, DarwinIA, where traders participate to get capital allocations.

You can think of these allocations as Darwinex investing in you and your trading talent. If you manage to grow those allocations for us, by employing good solid trading decisions and risk management, you get to keep 15% of the profit you generate. DarwinIA has two tiers: DarwinIA SILVER and DarwinIA GOLD:

DarwinIA SILVER: The first stage of the Seed Capital Allocation Programme

In DarwinIA SILVER, allocations are determined by your “rating”. The higher the rating, the higher the ranking. There are 3 criteria that are assessed to calculate a DARWINs ‘Rating’:

  • The current month’s return
  • The return over the previous 5 months
  • And lastly, the historic drawdown, also from the previous 5 months + the current month. If you don’t have a full five months, that’s fine, we’ll use whatever history is available since the inception of your DARWIN.

If your DARWIN meets the required rating, you’ll secure the minimal allocation (currently €25K). If in addition to the minimum rating, you perform better than the rest, you can receive bigger allocations (currently up to €250K). In this stage, allocations are committed for three months without additional conditions, and you can manage up to three allocations simultaneously as they are cumulative.

DarwinIA GOLD: The second stage of the Seed Capital Allocation Programme

As you build up your track record, and your DARWIN progress you’ll qualify for DarwinIA GOLD, giving you a chance to participate with other elite traders for higher allocations (currently up to €500K) and for a six month period. In the same manner, you’ll be able to manage up to six allocations simultaneously.

An additional benefit of the GOLD tier is that you can start to attract 3rd party capital from investors, which will help you increase your earning potential with 15% of the profits you generate for those investors.

Consult the website for the exact current criteria as these may change over time.

Investor Capital

Upon reaching DarwinIA GOLD, your DARWIN index opens to external investors. This means that investors can buy your DARWIN to replicate its underlying strategy. If you build a solid track record that investors can trust, you open a new door to leveraging capital beyond our proprietary seed capital allocation programme and therefore, limitlessly.

The top traders at Darwinex have already attracted millions and get hundreds of thousands of euros in performance fees. For example, the THA index currently has more than $21M under management and has earned over €500K in performance fees.

Pricing

Note that your first payment (the sign-up fee of €95) will be higher than the subsequent ongoing monthly subscription costs (€38 a month) and this gives you a number of things. Firstly, it provides you with your Darwinex Zero account, and your trading platform of choice, throughout the whole duration of your training stage. This usually takes about two and a half weeks but can sometimes be longer or shorter depending on the frequency of your trading.

But most importantly, this initial fee also pays for your first month’s participation in DarwinIA SILVER. Only after this, will we take a subsequent subscription payment, regardless of how long the training phase takes for you. The monthly subscription payments are cheaper than the initial sign-up fee and are always available for you to check on the pricing page of the Darwinex Zero website.

Thank you for taking the time to read about Darwinex Zero. We’re excited to bring it to you and can’t wait to hear your feedback!

Your Darwinex Team.

19 Comments

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  • Valentin J Suarez
    Posted April 12, 2023 at 10:22 am

    ¡Impresionante!, estoy literalmente “alucinando”. Solamente una sugerencia: cambiaría “el cambio de tomarse el trading como un hobby” por “el cambio de tomarse el trading como una técnica que requiere estudio y pericia”. Quien se meta en esto por hobby acaba de salchicha en el perrito.

    • Darwinex
      Posted April 20, 2023 at 1:46 pm

      Muchísimas gracias, Valentín! Tomamos nota de tus comentarios, muchas gracias por el feedback 🙂

  • Carlos
    Posted April 12, 2023 at 11:16 am

    ¿La versión actual de operar con capital propio estará disponible?
    ¿Se puede migrar un Darwin de D-Zero a un un Darwin con capital propio?

    • Darwinex
      Posted April 20, 2023 at 1:49 pm

      Muchas gracias por tu mensaje, Carlos!

      En principio, en Darwinex Zero la modalidad que va a existir es la de operar la cuenta con fondos virtuales bajo suscripción. En el futuro, nuestra intención es integrar Darwinex clásico con Darwinex Zero, y permitir la migración de cuentas entre plataformas. Mientras tanto, para operar con capital propio habría que hacerlo en Darwinex clásico.

  • Bernhard Stremayr
    Posted April 12, 2023 at 1:02 pm

    I think that “Darwinex Zero” is a great complementation to “Darwinex Classic”: You now can be onboarded from almost everywhere in the world (due to not directly trading real money) and also attract AuM (Asset under Management) even when not having sufficient (initial) funds for your trading account!
    But I highly recommend to first test your strategy for a while on a free (classic) demo account and/or in a high quality backtester with rigorous evaluations of robustness IN CASE you’re a novice without any already existing (at least demo) track record.
    Step on it!

  • Ricardo
    Posted April 12, 2023 at 1:29 pm

    hola, me gustaría saber si operando una cuenta ZERO los ingresos que puedo recibir si consigo gestionar fondos, si van a ser ingresos por capital? o van a ser por trabajo? esto fiscalmente es muy diferente, dado que casi es el doble de impuestos a pagar. Y veo que nadie me da respuesta a esta pregunta, y los asesores fiscales no conocen el producto. Con lo cual entiendo que sois los más apropiados para sacarnos de dudas.

    • Darwinex
      Posted April 20, 2023 at 1:55 pm

      Hola Ricardo! Muchas gracias por tu pregunta.

      Me temo que en materia fiscal no damos asesoramiento ni recomendaciones, puesto que en cada país y situación puede ser distinto. Lo único que te podemos decir es que estarías prestando un servicio de venta de señales a Darwinex, y es por este servicio el concepto por el que recibirías un pago. Sentimos no poder ser más específicos, pero espero que esa información pueda servir de ayuda 🙂

  • Santiago
    Posted April 12, 2023 at 1:46 pm

    Una consulta.
    No se habla sobre ello, (no lo he visto).

    Implica un mínimo de permanencia?
    O en cualquier momento puedes salir.

    • Darwinex
      Posted April 20, 2023 at 1:56 pm

      Hola Santiago!

      No hay permanencia alguna, puedes cancelar tu suscripción cuando quieras 😉

  • emilio
    Posted April 13, 2023 at 6:44 am

    Cuando te das de alta con la cuenta demo, según entiendo de 25.000, y generas beneficios ese mismo mes, se te paga el 15%?

    • Darwinex
      Posted April 20, 2023 at 2:05 pm

      Hola Emilio, gracias por tu mensaje. El proceso es el siguiente:
      1. Abres tu cuenta y realizas el pago inicial. Se te facilitan las claves de la cuenta de trading, con 100.000$ de balance inicial.
      2. Durante unos 10 días aprox. operas en la fase de entrenamiento, en la que vas generando histórico para crear el DARWIN.
      3. Una vez el DARWIN se ha creado, participa en la edición del mes en curso que corresponda de DarwinIA SILVER.
      4. Si cumples las condiciones de rating necesarias en la clasificación de final de mes, recibirás asignación.
      5. Con dicha asignación, operas durante 3 meses y al final del trimestre se te asigna un pago del 15% de comisión de éxito por la rentabilidad generada con la asignación.

      Al margen de cualquier asignación recibida, sigues optando a recibir más asignaciones durante las ediciones posteriores de DarwinIA SILVER.

      Espero que esto aclare las dudas. Cualquier cuestión, puedes escribirnos a info@darwinexzero.com y nuestro equipo resolverá cualquier duda 😉

  • Lorenzo
    Posted April 14, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    Buenas
    Hay que darse de alta como autónomo?

    • Darwinex
      Posted April 20, 2023 at 2:06 pm

      Hola Lorenzo,

      no es necesario darse de autónomo para poder cobrar las comisiones de éxito. No obstante, te recomendamos acudir a un asesor fiscal especializado si quieres optimizar la tributación de estos ingresos.

  • Jorge Valls Vilalta
    Posted April 17, 2023 at 9:36 am

    Hola quería saber si se puede hacer desde la plataforma Ninja trader ya que solo opero con ella y el futuro del Nasdaq muchas gracias quedo a la espera de sus noticias

    • Darwinex
      Posted April 20, 2023 at 2:07 pm

      Hola Jorge,

      me temo que únicamente ofrecemos operativa a través de CFDs y MetaTrader por el momento. No obstante, tomamos en cuenta tus comentarios, muchas gracias por la aportación 🙂

  • Stuart
    Posted April 22, 2023 at 11:44 am

    Very exciting product! Could you clarify, please, if there is an error on the D-Zero Assets page where the commission on forex pairs is listed in the quote currency instead of in the base curency as is the case on the Darwinex Classic Assets page? eg for AUDCAD, is the commission per order 2.5 CAD (D-Zero) or 2.5 AUD (Darwinex Classic)?

    Thanks! Stuart.

  • Jossua
    Posted May 28, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    Hola, tengo una duda si por ejemplo me asignan capital y tengo un rendimiento positivo al finalizar el primer mes ya podria cobrar las comisiones de exito? O hay que esperar los 3 meses para poder cobrar las comisiones de exito?

    • Darwinex
      Posted May 29, 2023 at 10:58 am

      Hola Jossua! Tendrías que esperar 3 meses, las comisiones de éxito se calculan y abonan cada 3 meses desde la primera asignación. Muchas gracias!

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