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Am Langenwall 1, 18439 Stralsund, Germany
1 Allied Business Centre, Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden, England, AL5 4UT
Lennard Wenderholm
Andrew Blaylock & George Kohler
Germany
United Kingdom
2023
Lvlup charges no payout fee.
Both the evaluation and the funded account are simulated, unless a separate agreement says otherwise.
Qualified traders may be selected to trade real capital through the Alpha Futures Live Program or Alpha Prime. Live accounts offer daily uncapped withdrawals, no consistency rule and no news-trading restrictions.
- Lvlup: every 14 days. The days in the cycle do not need to be profitable.
- Starter: after every 5 profitable days. 5 payouts at most; the fifth closes the account.
- Zero, Standard and Advanced: Up to 4 times per month after 5 winning trading days of $200 or more
- Direct: Up to 4 times per month after meeting its Withdrawal Profit Target and 20% consistency rule
Approved payouts are processed within 48 hours at most, usually 24 to 48h.
Same day
- Lvlup: 10% of the starting balance per payout.
- Starter: 4% on 25K and 50K, 2.5% on 100K and 2% on 150K, never more than 50% of the profit generated.
- Advanced: $15,000 per account
- Zero 25K: $1,000
- Zero 50K: $1,500
- Zero 100K: $2,500
- Standard 50K: $3,000
- Standard 100K: $4,000
- Standard 150K: $5,000
- Direct 25K: $1,000
- Direct 50K: $2,000
- Direct 100K: $2,500
- Direct 150K: $3,000
- Starter: $500 on every size.
- Lvlup: no published minimum.
- Zero: $200
- Standard: $500
- Advanced: $1,000
- Direct: $500
- KYC with Sumsub before the funded account. The payout method must belong to the verified holder.
- Lvlup: the 40% consistency rule must be met when you request the payout.
- Starter: the account is locked from the request until the payout is approved.
- The full requested amount comes off the balance and the drawdown is not reset.
A failed account cannot be reset or reactivated: you have to buy a new evaluation.
Evaluation Resets
Evaluation reset prices are shown in each challenge. Paying the next monthly subscription also resets an Evaluation.
Qualified Resets
Available after a breach on Zero and Standard Qualified accounts.
| Plan | 25K | 50K | 100K | 150K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero | $399 | $499 | $799 | — |
| Standard | — | $599 | $799 | $999 |
Payout Protector (+25% of the price): if a funded account fails while in profit, they review the case and may pay what was eligible. It does not prevent the breach or keep the account open, and it must be added at purchase.
- Level 2 (Depth of Market) Data for all exchanges: $41/month per user
- EUREX DOM data: $23 per month
- Standard 50K, 100K and 150K: add-on that removes the consistency rule once Qualified, from $70/month. The Evaluation keeps the 50% rule.
End-of-day trailing: it follows the highest closing balance and updates once the day ends; intraday moves do not shift it. On Lvlup it stops trailing once the account is up 6% and locks at the starting balance; Starter does not publish that lock. Touching it closes the account.
- EOD trailing on every plan
- Locks at the starting balance
- Does not reset after a performance fee
80% on Lvlup and 100% on Starter.
No daily loss limit.
- Advanced: none
- Zero: applies in Evaluation and Qualified; hitting it locks the account until the next trading day
- Standard: none in Evaluation; applies once Qualified
- Direct: applies from day one
$1,000,000 per trader, adding up every active account, evaluation and funded.
- Zero, Standard and Direct: up to 5 Qualified accounts
- Advanced: up to 3 Qualified accounts; an active Advanced Qualified account limits the user to 3 total
No fixed number of accounts: the limit is the total capital.
- Lvlup: no expiry, but you must trade at least once every 30 days.
- Starter: 30 days from the first trade; it does not renew.
5 in the evaluation. Any day with at least one executed trade counts.
- Zero (Evaluation): 1 day
- Standard (Evaluation): 2 days
- Advanced (Evaluation): 3 days
- Zero, Standard and Advanced Qualified: 5 winning days of $200 or more before each performance fee
- Direct: no minimum trading days; withdrawals require its profit target and 20% consistency rule
- Lvlup: activation fee after passing, due within 30 days. It is lower if the evaluation was monthly. No monthly fee once funded.
- Starter: no activation fee.
No activation fee on any plan. Direct is paid once; Zero, Standard and Advanced charge monthly only during Evaluation.
Lvlup Elite: 1 point per dollar paid out by Lvlup and 200 per passed Lvlup account; verified payouts and passes at other futures firms count too. 10,000 points unlock 12 months in a club with events and trips, where each point is worth $1. It cannot be bought.
- Lvlup: none; payouts follow 14-day cycles.
- Starter: 5 profitable days before each payout.
Zero, Standard and Advanced require 5 winning days with at least $200 profit each before every performance fee request. Direct requires its Withdrawal Profit Target and 20% consistency rule.
- Lvlup: monthly or one-time payment, your choice. The monthly fee runs while the evaluation is open and stops when you pass, fail or cancel.
- Starter: one-time payment only.
- On Volumetrica, Lvlup monthly ($129, $225, $369 and $476) and Starter ($161, $226, $291 and $356) cost more. Lvlup one-time costs the same on both platforms.
Zero, Standard and Advanced use a monthly Evaluation fee. Direct is one-time.
The scaling plan limits maximum position size according to accumulated profit. Zero 25K has no scaling plan; Advanced and Direct have no scaling plan.
Zero Qualified
| Profit | 50K minis | 50K micros | 100K minis | 100K micros |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than $1,500 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| $1,500-$2,000 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 30 |
| $2,000-$3,000 | 3 | 30 | 4 | 40 |
| $3,000-$4,500 | — | — | 5 | 50 |
| $4,500+ | — | — | 6 | 60 |
Standard Qualified
| Profit | 50K minis | 50K micros | 100K minis | 100K micros | 150K minis | 150K micros |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than $1,500 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 30 | 3 | 30 |
| $1,500-$2,000 | 3 | 30 | 4 | 40 | 4 | 40 |
| $2,000-$3,000 | 5 | 50 | 5 | 50 | 5 | 50 |
| $3,000-$4,500 | 5 | 50 | 10 | 100 | 10 | 100 |
| $4,500+ | 5 | 50 | 10 | 100 | 15 | 150 |
Your own bots are allowed, for the holder's own trading. High-frequency bots and bots that copy trades between different traders are forbidden.
Allowed within the same account. Forbidden across accounts, yours or another firm's.
No minimum trade duration, but no HFT and no sub-60-second trades at the contract limit.
Tick or micro scalping is prohibited when trades repeatedly last less than 2 minutes and move less than 10 ticks. There is no universal minimum holding time.
Contract limit by account size, counting all open exposure together (1 mini = 10 micros). Risking an outsized share of the account on a single move is forbidden.
Only between your own accounts, within contract and capital limits. Copying other traders or following signal groups is forbidden.
Permitted only when one user copies trades across accounts held in that same person's name. Automated, group and reverse trading remain prohibited.
Allowed in evaluation and funded, with no 3-minute restriction. The general terms of Prop Account, the company running the evaluations, do forbid opening positions 3 minutes before and after a news event.
- All Evaluation accounts: no news-trading restrictions
- Advanced Qualified: no news-trading restrictions
- Direct, Standard and Zero Qualified: no orders within 2 minutes before or 2 minutes after high-impact news
At least one trade every 30 days; the timer cannot be paused. On Lvlup it also applies once funded.
10 trading days
40%: your best day cannot exceed 40% of total profit. On Lvlup it applies in the evaluation and at every payout request; on Starter, only in the evaluation. Exceeding it does not fail the account: you keep trading until it drops below 40%.
- Zero: no Evaluation consistency rule; 40% on Qualified accounts
- Standard: 50% in Evaluation; 40% on Qualified accounts (removed on Qualified with the Standard add-on)
- Advanced: 40% in Evaluation; none on Qualified accounts
- Direct: 20% between performance fee requests
- Exploiting price errors, delays or latency
- High-frequency trading (HFT)
- Hedging or arbitrage across accounts, other firms included
- Front-running and insider information
- Group trading, signals or copying other traders
- Having a third party trade or pass the evaluation for you
- All-in or excessive risk on a single move
- Passing with one strategy and switching it once funded
- Trading at or near the contract limit for under 60 seconds (Prop Account terms)
- All or Nothing Approach
- Order Book Spamming
- Tick or Micro Scalping
- Exploiting Absence of Slippage / Favorable Fills
- Multiple Limit Orders at Same Price
- Gambling Tendencies / Account Rolling (Account Stacking)
- Reverse Trading / Hedging
- Trading Illiquid or Gapped Markets for Isolated Fills
- Non-Compliance with CME Group Rules
- Group Trading (Collaborative Trading)
Everything closed by 15:55 CST on normal days; trading resumes at 17:00 CST. Hours change on holidays and closing in time is the trader's job.
Reasonable DCA is allowed. Excessive order stacking or order-book spamming intended to exploit simulated fills is prohibited.
