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Am Langenwall 1, 18439 Stralsund, Germany

Innovation One Building, Level 2, DIFC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Lennard Wenderholm

Oliver Newland

Germany

United Arab Emirates

2026

Lvlup charges no payout fee.

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

Traders may enter the live-account review pool after payout 5, significant lifetime payouts, exceptional simulated-funded performance or a previous live transition. Selection is always at Finotive Futures' discretion.

• 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.

On demand once all requirements are met.

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

Payout requests are processed within 24 to 48 hours.

• 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.

1-Step Funded

• $25K: $1,000 first payout; $1,500 thereafter
• $50K: $2,000 first payout; $2,500 thereafter
• $100K: $2,500 first payout; $3,000 thereafter
• $150K: $3,000 first payout; $3,500 thereafter

Instant

• $25K: $1,000
• $50K: $2,000
• $100K: $3,000
• $150K: $4,000

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

$500 before the 90% reward split.

• 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.

All positions must be closed and KYC and compliance checks must be complete before requesting a payout.

A failed account cannot be reset or reactivated: you have to buy a new evaluation.

• 1-Step evaluation: a discounted reset can be purchased within 14 calendar days of a breach.
• 1-Step Funded: up to 2 resets before the first payout, within 14 days of the breach; each costs 5 times the evaluation fee.
• Instant: no standard reset; the same size can be repurchased at a reduced price within 3 calendar days of a breach.

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.

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.

• 1-Step: EOD trailing, based on the highest end-of-day balance; it locks at the initial balance once the Profit Buffer is reached.
• Instant: intraday trailing, following the highest balance or open equity.
• Reaching the maximum drawdown is a hard breach.

80% on Lvlup and 100% on Starter.

No daily loss limit.

Calculated from the end-of-day balance. A breach is soft: positions are closed and trading stops for that day; the account is not failed. The new daily limit on 25K 1-Step evaluations applies only to new purchases; existing accounts retain their original rules.

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

Applies only to 1-Step Funded accounts and must remain in the account: $1,000 on $25K, $2,000 on $50K, $3,000 on $100K and $4,500 on $150K. Each payout also requires new profit equal to 1% of the initial balance above the buffer. Instant accounts use a recurring payout milestone instead: $1,450, $3,000, $5,000 and $8,000 respectively.

No fixed number of accounts: the limit is the total capital.

Unlimited evaluation accounts. Total funded allocation across 1-Step and Instant accounts is capped at $1,000,000.

• Lvlup: no expiry, but you must trade at least once every 30 days.
• Starter: 30 days from the first trade; it does not renew.

No time limit for the 1-Step evaluation. Accounts close after 15 consecutive calendar days without a trade.

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

The 1-Step 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.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

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.

• 1-Step evaluation: none
• 1-Step Funded: 3 per payout cycle
• Instant: 5 per payout cycle

A profitable day requires at least 0.25% of the initial account balance in realised profit.

• 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.

One-time purchase fee. No subscription or automatic rebilling, and no activation fee after passing.

Your own bots are allowed, for the holder's own trading. High-frequency bots and bots that copy trades between different traders are forbidden.

Bots, EAs and personal automated strategies are allowed if they do not exploit latency, feed errors or the simulated environment.

Connections must remain stable and verifiable. VPNs, proxies or location masking are prohibited when they impair identity, location or account-control checks.

Allowed within the same account. Forbidden across accounts, yours or another firm's.

Hedging within one account is allowed, including mini versus micro positions. Opposing or correlated hedges across separate accounts or prop firms are prohibited.

No minimum trade duration, but no HFT and no sub-60-second trades at the contract limit.

Microscalping is allowed, but no more than 50% of total profit may come from trades held for less than 30 seconds.

Allowed when used responsibly within contract and drawdown limits. Aggressive exposure may be reviewed as gambling behaviour.

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.

Allowed only between accounts personally owned and controlled by the same trader, including their accounts at other prop firms. Third-party signals, accounts and copy services are 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.

Allowed without restrictions during the 1-Step evaluation. On 1-Step Funded and Instant accounts, orders cannot be opened, closed or triggered from 2 minutes before until 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.

15 consecutive calendar days without a trade is a hard breach and permanently closes the account.

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%.

No consistency rule during the 1-Step evaluation. At payout, one day may represent at most 40% of cycle profit on 1-Step Funded accounts and 20% on Instant accounts.

Positions cannot be carried through the Friday close into the Sunday reopen.

• 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)

Hedging across accounts or platforms; latency, feed, spread or exchange arbitrage; account or device sharing; coordinated/group trading; copying third parties; spoofing, layering and market or order-queue manipulation; volume inflation or artificial trades; HFT and algorithmic exploitation; non-viable simulated-fill strategies; gambling/account rolling; news straddling; and gap or illiquid-market exploitation.

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.

All open positions are automatically closed at 15:55 CT, five minutes before the daily close.