The 90/10 performance fee
Last updated 2026-10-05
How our 10% fee works, and why you keep 90% of every new profit.
You keep 90%
SCI Trader’s performance fee is 10% of every new profit. You keep 90%. The fee is not a charge on your funding and not a charge on the whole account. Creating an account has no platform fee.
New profit is a gain above the account’s previous peak, after the calculation adjusts for funding and withdrawals. Your funding is capital, not profit.
Recovering a loss is not new profit
The fee looks at profit above the account’s previous peak. If the account falls and later only climbs back to the same peak, the recovery is not new profit and does not create a new performance fee.
A new funding raises the capital in the account. It is not treated as a gain. Withdrawing money is adjusted in the same calculation so the fee is not charged on cash you put in or took out.
We only earn when you do
You keep 90% of every new profit. Our fee is the other 10%. We only earn when you do.
If the account is flat or down, there is no performance fee. A later gain above the previous peak is a new calculation, still at 10% of that new profit and 90% to you.
What else can cost money
Providers charge for processing, conversion, trading, and withdrawals. The SCI Trader fee is 10% of every new profit.
You keep 90% of that profit. A funding is not profit, and recovering a previous loss does not create a new fee.