# Trading Assets

Upscale offers trading across multiple markets with instant order execution. When selecting a challenge, you choose the category of available trading pairs.

## 📊 Asset Categories

### 🪙 Crypto

Over 100 highly liquid cryptocurrencies for digital trading:

| **Category**                  | **Trading Assets**                                                                                                                                        |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Base Coins (Layer 1)**      | BTC, ETH, SOL, TON, ADA, AVAX, BNB, TRX, XLM, NEAR, ALGO, ATOM, BCH, BSV, DOT, ETC, HBAR, ICP, IOTA, KAS, LTC, MNT, SUI, TAO, TIA, XTZ, VET, APT, BERA, S |
| **Layer 2 Solutions**         | ARB, OP, STRK, POL, LINEA, IMX                                                                                                                            |
| **DeFi & DEX Tokens**         | UNI, AAVE, CRV, CAKE, DYDX, DEXE, PENDLE, ONDO, ENA, INJ, RAY, RUNE, SEI, JUP, JTO, BGB, HYPE, LDO, EIGEN, DEEP, AERO, PNUT                               |
| **NFT & Gaming Tokens**       | AXS, CHZ, FLOW, GALA, MANA, SAND                                                                                                                          |
| **Meme & Community Tokens**   | DOGE, 1000PEPE, 1000SHIB, 1000BONK, FLOKI, FARTCOIN, TURBO, BRETT, WIF, POPCAT, PENGU, TRUMP, PUMP                                                        |
| **Privacy Coins**             | XMR, ZEC, DASH                                                                                                                                            |
| **Infrastructure & Services** | LINK, FIL, ENS, PYTH, RENDER, GRT, ORDI, IP, KAITO, KAIA, WLD, ZRO, FET, GRASS, CRO, SKY                                                                  |
| **AI & Emerging Trends**      | VIRTUAL, ASTER, 0G, WLFI, WAL, JASMY, MOVE                                                                                                                |

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### 🏛️ RWA (Real World Assets)

Traditional real-world financial assets, including forex pairs, commodities, and indices.

#### 💱 Forex

**Available pairs (7):** USDEUR, USDGBP, USDJPY, USDAUD, USDNZD, USDCAD, USDCHF

Forex pairs represent traditional currency markets and allow you to trade major world currencies against the US dollar.

#### 🥇 Commodity

**Available pairs (2):** XAU (Gold), XAG (Silver)

Commodity pairs reflect the value of physical assets and are traditionally used for hedging and portfolio diversification.

#### 📊 Indices

**Available instruments (4):** SPY (S\&P 500), QQQM (NASDAQ 100), DIA (Dow Jones), IWM (Russell 2000)

Indices are traded via ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) — listed funds that track the performance of their respective index. The instrument price is the price of one ETF share, not the index value in points. This is not a CFD or a synthetic product: ETFs trade at real market prices and closely follow the index's performance in both direction and percentage.

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### 🌐 ALL

Full access to all asset categories: **Crypto + RWA** (including Forex, Commodity, and Indices).

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## 🕐 Trading Schedule

### Crypto

* **Operating hours:** 24/7 with no interruptions
* **Trading:** available around the clock

### Forex & Commodity

* **Operating hours:** paused on weekends
* **Trading session:** Monday 00:00 UTC — Friday 21:00 UTC
* **Pause:** Friday 21:00 UTC — Monday 00:00 UTC

### Indices

* **Operating hours:** follows the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) schedule
* **Trading session:** Monday — Friday, 13:30–20:00 UTC (summer) / 14:30–21:00 UTC (winter)
* **Pause:** outside NYSE trading hours, weekends, and US public holidays

⚠️ **Important:** During RWA market pauses (Forex, Commodity, Indices):

* Opening new positions is **unavailable**
* Existing positions remain open
* Funding is **not charged**
* **Withdrawal requests are unavailable** while there are open positions on paused markets
* **Stop Loss** and **Trailing Stop** orders are filled at the first available market price — be aware of potential slippage when carrying positions through a market pause
* All features are restored once trading resumes

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## 🎮 Demo Mode

The demo account provides access to **all asset categories** (Crypto, RWA) for full strategy testing.

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📣 *The list of trading assets is regularly expanding — stay tuned for updates!*


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