# Participation Requirements

## 📅 Profitable Day

For a day to qualify as a **Profitable Day**, the following conditions must be met:

* **Balance change** between the start and end of the day must be **≥ 0.5%** of the initial balance.
* This value remains fixed at **0.5% of the initial balance** throughout the entire trading period.

**How it works in practice:**

Your balance is affected by unrealized PnL of open positions. If you have accumulated unrealized profit in an open position:

* This profit is **gradually reflected in your balance** each day as it grows
* If the position remains open — it continues to affect daily balance changes
* When you close the position — unrealized profit becomes realized, but this doesn't affect the balance itself (the balance has already accounted for this profit)

**Example:**

* Initial balance = $10,000
* Day 1: You opened a position, unrealized profit +$500 → balance = $10,500
* Day 2: Position closed with realized profit $500 → balance remains $10,500

Accordingly:

* Day 1 was profitable (delta +$500)
* Day 2 was neutral (delta 0, the position already generated profit on Day 1)

📌 **Key point:** *a profitable day is calculated regardless of whether orders are open or closed. What matters is how much your balance increased during the day*.

> 🕐 **Trading day:** Daily periods are calculated based on **UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)**. A new trading day starts at **00:00 UTC**. All daily balance change calculations — including Profit Day qualification — are tied to this timezone.

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## 🚀 Challenge Stages

### 🟠 Basic — Standard Two-Phase Challenge

#### Phase 1

* **Goal:** Achieve **5% profit** (realized PnL)
* **Profitable days:** At least **3 days**
* **Maximum daily loss:** 5%
* **Maximum overall loss:** 10%

#### Phase 2

* **Goal:** Achieve **8% profit** (realized PnL)
* **Profitable days:** At least **5 days**
* **Maximum daily loss:** 5%
* **Maximum overall loss:** 10%

### ⚡ Accelerated — Fast-Track Challenge (1 Phase)

#### Single Phase

* **Goal:** Achieve **10% profit** (realized PnL)
* **Profitable days:** At least **3 days**
* **Maximum daily loss:** 3%
* **Maximum overall loss:** 6%

### 🚀 Turbo — Instant Funding (directly to funded phase)

#### No Testing Phase

* **Minimum profit goal:** none
* **Profitable days:** At least **5 days**
* **Maximum overall loss:** 6% of **maximum balance**
* You start trading on a funded account from day one

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## 📉 Risk Parameters

### 🔋 Maximum Daily Loss

#### For Basic Challenge (5%)

* Maximum daily drawdown: **5% of initial capital** (calculated from the balance at the start of the day)
* This limit is independent of previous days — each day is evaluated separately

**Example:**

* Initial balance = $10,000
* Maximum daily drop = $500 (5%)
* If the balance drops to **$9,500** or below at any point during the day, the account will be **immediately disqualified**

#### For Accelerated Challenge (3%)

* Maximum daily drawdown: **3% of initial capital** (calculated from the balance at the start of the day)

**Example:**

* Initial balance = $10,000
* Maximum daily drop = $300 (3%)
* If the balance drops to **$9,700** or below at any point during the day, the account will be **immediately disqualified**

> Loss from the previous day **does not affect** the next day's limit — each day is calculated independently. A new trading day begins at **00:00 UTC**, and the daily drawdown resets to zero.

### 🪫 Maximum Overall Loss

#### For Basic Challenge (10%)

* **Maximum allowable overall loss** throughout the entire testing period is **10% of the initial balance**

**Example:**

* Initial balance = $10,000\
  → If the balance ever drops to **$9,000** or below, the challenge will be **failed**

#### For Accelerated Challenge (6%)

* **Maximum allowable overall loss** throughout the entire testing period is **6% of the initial balance**

**Example:**

* Initial balance = $10,000\
  → If the balance ever drops to **$9,400** or below, the challenge will be **failed**

#### For Turbo (6% of maximum balance)

* **Maximum allowable overall loss** is calculated from the **maximum balance** achieved over the entire trading period

**Example with step-by-step calculation:**

* **Day 1:** Starting balance = $10,000
* **Day 5:** Balance grew to $12,000 → this becomes the **new maximum balance**
* **Maximum loss now** = 6% of $12,000 = **-$720**
* **Minimum allowable balance** = $12,000 - 6% = **$11,280**
* If the balance drops to $11,279 or below → account will be **closed**

After profit withdrawal:

* **Day 15:** Withdrawal $1,000 → remaining balance $11,000
* **New maximum balance** now = $11,000
* **New minimum allowable balance** = $11,000 - 6% = **$10,340**
* Maximum drop limited to **-$660** instead of the previous -$720

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## 💼 Funded Account

### Risk Parameters After Passing the Challenge

⚠️ **Important:** Risk parameters on a funded account depend on the type of challenge passed or Turbo selection!

| **Parameter**                          | **After Basic** | **After Accelerated** | **Turbo (immediate)** |
| -------------------------------------- | --------------- | --------------------- | --------------------- |
| **Maximum daily loss**                 | 5%              | **3%**                | -                     |
| **Maximum overall loss**               | 10% of initial  | **6% of initial**     | **6% of max balance** |
| **Profitable days for withdrawal**     | 5 days          | 5 days                | 5 days                |
| **Minimum increase on profitable day** | 0.5%            | 0.5%                  | 0.5%                  |

💡 Important: You can accumulate profitable days without any time limit.

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### 💰 Profit Split

After passing the challenge and receiving a funded account, profit is distributed between the trader and Upscale.

#### Standard Distribution (80/20)

By default, the following profit distribution applies:

* **Trader receives:** 80% of profit
* **Upscale receives:** 20% of profit

**Example:**

* Profit for the period: $1,000
* Your payout: $800 (80%)
* Upscale commission: $200 (20%)

#### 💎 Additional 90/10 Option

When purchasing a challenge, you can activate an option that increases your profit share:

* **Trader receives:** 90% of profit
* **Upscale receives:** 10% of profit

💡 This is especially beneficial for active traders with consistent profitability — the additional 10% significantly increases total income.

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### Payment Period and Withdrawal Conditions

**Payment period** is the time interval from the moment of:

* Account purchase/launch (if this is the first withdrawal)
* Or the last successful withdrawal

To request a withdrawal, the trader must:

* Achieve at least **5 Profitable Days** in the current payment period
* Comply with all risk parameters (daily and overall loss)
* Fulfill the **30% rule** condition (for Turbo, see below)
* **No open positions on RWA markets during pause:** At the time of withdrawal request, all positions on paused RWA markets (Forex, Commodity, Indices) must be closed

⚠️ **Important for RWA traders:** If you have open positions on RWA pairs during market pause (Friday 21:00 UTC — Monday 00:00 UTC), withdrawal request will be **unavailable** until these positions are closed or markets resume trading.

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### 📊 Maximum Allocation

The maximum total capital available to a single trader at the funded stage is **$400,000**. This is the combined limit across all active funded accounts at any given time.

You can purchase and pass challenges for any amount — the limit applies only to the funding stage.

**Examples of eligible combinations:**

* 2 × $200,000 = $400,000 ✅
* 4 × $100,000 = $400,000 ✅
* 1 × $200,000 + 2 × $100,000 = $400,000 ✅
* 1 × $200,000 + 1 × $100,000 + 2 × $50,000 = $400,000 ✅

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**What happens to passed challenges beyond the limit?**

If the total capital across your passed challenges exceeds $400,000, the additional accounts are not lost — they are kept in a queue. When one of your active funded accounts is terminated (e.g. due to a drawdown violation), you can activate the next one from your reserve.
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The allocation limit is based on the **starting balance** of funded accounts, not the current balance. For example, if your $200,000 account has grown to $230,000, it still counts as $200,000 toward the total limit.
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This approach allows the platform to maintain a sustainable risk management and trade execution model, while giving traders the flexibility to run different strategies across multiple challenges.

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### ⚠️ 30% Rule (Withdrawal Restriction)

This restriction only applies to the Turbo challenge (instant funding). If **the most profitable day in the current payment period constitutes 30% or more of the total profit** — withdrawal will be **unavailable** until you build additional profit.

**Example with step-by-step explanation:**

Suppose you made 5 profitable days with the following closed profits:

* Day 1: +$200
* Day 2: +$300
* Day 3: +$1,500 ← **most profitable day**
* Day 4: +$300
* Day 5: +$200

**Calculation:**

* **Total profit** = $200 + $300 + $1,500 + $300 + $200 = **$2,500**
* **Percentage of most profitable day** = $1,500 / $2,500 = **60%** ❌

⛔️ *Withdrawal temporarily unavailable*

Why? Because $1,500 constitutes 60% of the total profit, which is **more than the 30% limit**.

**Solution: build additional profit**

For the day with $1,500 to constitute exactly 30% of the total amount, we need:

* $1,500 / New\_amount = 0.30
* New\_amount = $1,500 / 0.30 = **$5,000**

**Need to build additional profit:**

* $5,000 - $2,500 = **$2,500**

**After adding $2,500 new profit:**

* New total profit = $5,000
* Percentage of large trade = $1,500 / $5,000 = **30%** ✅

✅ *Withdrawal becomes available*

The rule works like this: the more balanced your trading (without one day with a sharp spike), the faster you can withdraw funds.

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### Violations on Funded Account

* **Failure to meet Profitable Days requirement:**
  * Account **remains active**, trading can continue
  * **Fund withdrawal not allowed** until requirement is met
* **Violation of risk limits (Daily Drawdown or Maximum Drawdown):**
  * **Immediate account termination**
  * Trader **loses all accumulated profit**

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### Examples for Funded Account

#### After Basic Challenge:

* Initial balance = $10,000
* Maximum daily loss = $500 (5%)
* Minimum allowable balance = $9,000 (10%)

#### After Accelerated Challenge:

* Initial balance = $10,000
* Maximum daily loss = $300 (3%)
* Minimum allowable balance = $9,400 (6%)

#### For Turbo:

* Initial balance = $10,000
* Maximum loss = 6% of $10,000 = -$600 (calculated from **maximum balance**)
* Minimum allowable balance = $9,400 (calculated from **maximum balance**)

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## 🔄 Transition Between Phases

When transitioning to the next phase (relevant only for Basic challenge):

* **All open positions must be automatically closed** at market price
* **All pending limit orders are automatically cancelled**

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## 🔒 Account Termination

In case of account termination:

* **All open positions will be forcibly closed** at market price
* **All pending limit orders are cancelled**
* **Account access will be permanently revoked**

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🏄 *Choose your strategy — scalping, swing trading, or long-term investing — and manage large capital on competitive terms!*