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Am Langenwall 1, 18439 Stralsund, Germany

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Lennard Wenderholm

Jason Blax

Germany

United Arab Emirates

2023

Lvlup charges no payout fee.

$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.

Both the evaluation and the funded account are simulated, unless a separate agreement says otherwise.

• 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.

• Daily: daily
• One Step Standard, Instant Standard: on demand
• Flex DLL: after 5 winning days
• Flex No DLL: after 6 winning days

Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Time.

Approved payouts are processed within 48 hours at most, usually 24 to 48h.

Within 24 business hours. Get paid in 24 hours or AquaFunded Futures pays you an extra $500.

• 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.

Daily: maximum daily payout

• $50k: $1,100
• $100k: $2,200
• $150k: $3,300

Instant Standard: payout cap

• $25k: $1,000
• $50k: $2,000
• $100k: $4,000
• $150k: $6,000

One Step Standard: payout cap

• $50k: $2,000, then $2,500
• $100k: $4,000, then $5,000
• $150k: $6,000, then $7,500

Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: payout cap

• $50k: $2,000
• $100k: $2,500
• $150k: $3,000

• Starter: $500 on every size.
• Lvlup: no published minimum.

• Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $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.

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.

One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.

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.

• Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation and funded stages
• Instant Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown
• One Step Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation

80% on Lvlup and 100% on Starter.

No daily loss limit.

$1,000,000 per trader, adding up every active account, evaluation and funded.

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.

Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.

5 in the evaluation. Any day with at least one executed trade counts.

One Step Standard: none; the evaluation can be passed in one trading day.

• 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.

One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $0 activation fee.

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.

• 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.

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.

Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.

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.

Copy trading is allowed between accounts owned by the same person. You can copy trades freely across your own AquaFunded Futures accounts without violations for internal account copying.

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.

At least one trade every 30 days; the timer cannot be paused. On Lvlup it also applies once funded.

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%.

Evaluation Phase

• Daily: 40%
• One Step Standard: none
• Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: 50%

Funded Phase

• Daily: none
• One Step Standard: 40%
• Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: none
• Instant Standard: 20%

• 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)

• No full automation: bots, AI and hands-off trading are forbidden.
• Auto scalping is limited (>200 trades/day restricted).
• Semi-automation is allowed with active manual control.
• No order manipulation (layering or fake liquidity).
• No exploiting simulated fills, slippage or illiquid markets.
• Follow CME rules; no coordinated accounts.
• Scalping and microscalping require a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.
• Martingale is allowed within risk limits.
• Violations may result in termination and loss of profits.

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.