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Headquarters

Am Langenwall 1, 18439 Stralsund, Germany

Office No. 7, AI Robotics HUB, C1 Building, AFZ, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

CEO

Lennard Wenderholm

Abdullah Jayed

Country

Germany

United Arab Emirates

Foundation
No data

2022

Banned Countries
PK, RU, CU, SD, SO, IR, LB, SY, LY, VN
Afghanistan, Albania, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bouvet Island, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Fiji, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Rwanda, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
Assets
Indices, Forex, Commodities, Crypto
Indices
Brokers
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Tradovate, NinjaTrader
Payout Fee

Lvlup charges no payout fee.

Up to 3.5% processing fee on all withdrawals.

Platforms
Tickblaze, Volumetrica
Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Tradingview
Payout Methods
Rise, Crypto
Crypto, Rise
Live Account
No

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

Yes

Available after $100K Total Active Profits. 80% of simulated profit splits: 50% settlement, 25% live deposit (max $50K), 25% reserve (auto-refills). Auto liquidation at 20% of deposit (locks at deposit after first withdrawal). Withdrawals: 80/20 split, $100 min, 2-5 days processing.

Payment Methods
Card, PayPal, Crypto
Card, Crypto, PayPal, Skrill, ApplePay, GooglePay
Payout Frequency
  • 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.
  • Flex: Reward withdrawals every 5 days once eligible
  • Legacy: Reward withdrawals every 5 benchmark days
  • Rapid: Reward withdrawals every 3 days
  • Bolt: Daily rewards from day one of eligibility
Payout Guarantee

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

Brand Promise: Performance Reward processed within 24 hours, or $1,000 extra added to your reward.

Maximum Withdrawal
  • 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.
  • USDT (TRC20 / ERC20) or USDC (ERC20) via RiseWorks: up to $1,000 per withdrawal
  • USDT (ERC20) / USDC (ERC20) without RiseWorks: up to $1,000,000 per withdrawal

Rapid FundedNext Account (per cycle, lifted after 5 withdrawals)

  • $25K: $800
  • $50K: $1,500
  • $100K: $2,500

Legacy FundedNext Account (before 30 Benchmark Days: max 50% of profit)

  • $25K: up to $3,000
  • $50K: up to $6,000
  • $100K: up to $6,000

After caps are lifted, withdraw 100% of profits with no limit.

Flex FundedNext Account (per cycle; account concludes after 5 Performance Reward withdrawals)

  • $50K: up to 50% of profit, max $1,500
  • $100K: up to 50% of profit, max $2,500
  • $150K: up to 50% of profit, max $4,000
Minimum Withdrawal
  • Starter: $500 on every size.
  • Lvlup: no published minimum.

$250 minimum for all withdrawal methods.

Other Payout Requirements
  • 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.
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Commission
No data
Account Reset
No

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

Unlimited resets at no additional cost. Resets within 7 days keep the same Challenge Account; resets after 7 days provide a new one.

Add-ons
Yes

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.

No
Instant
No
No
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No data
No
Max Drawdown

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.

Trailing end-of-day (EOD) system. Locks at the initial account balance and never decreases.

Profit Split

80% on Lvlup and 100% on Starter.

  • Flex: 95% Reward Share by default for new and existing accounts, with no paid add-on.
  • Other Futures challenges: 80% Reward Share.
Free Trial
No data
No
Daily Drawdown

No daily loss limit.

Daily loss limit only on Bolt Challenge ($1,000 soft breach for $50K account). Flex, Legacy and Rapid have no daily loss limit.

Max Allocation

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

750,000
Mandatory buffer
No data
No
Maximum Accounts

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

No data
Merge Accounts
No data
No
Maximum Trading Days
  • 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. Trade at your own pace until the profit target is met.

Minimum Trading Days

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

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Funded Phase Pricing Model
  • 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.

Free. No activation fee or recurring charges on the FundedNext Account.

Points Reward Program

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.

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Minimum Profitable Days
  • Lvlup: none; payouts follow 14-day cycles.
  • Starter: 5 profitable days before each payout.

Rapid FundedNext Account

  • No Benchmark Day requirement. First withdrawal eligible after 3 days if conditions are met.

Legacy FundedNext Account

  • Minimum 5 Benchmark Days before first withdrawal.
  • Benchmark Day profit thresholds: $100 ($25K account) / $200 ($50K and $100K accounts).
  • After 30 Benchmark Days: withdrawal cap and 50% profit limit are removed.

Flex FundedNext Account

  • 5 Benchmark Days per withdrawal: $200/day ($50K and $100K) / $250/day ($150K).
  • Minimum $500 profit in the current cycle.
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model
  • 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 fee (no monthly subscription).

Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

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

Yes

EAs and trading bots are allowed on both Challenge and FundedNext Accounts. No support is provided for setup or troubleshooting. Strategies exploiting system vulnerabilities (latency abuse, order flooding) remain prohibited.

VPN
No data
No
Hedging
Limited

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

No data
Requires Stop Loss
No data
No
Scalping
Limited

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

Yes
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

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.

No
Copy Trading
Limited

Only between your own accounts, within contract and capital limits. Copying other traders or following signal groups is forbidden.

Yes
News Trading
Yes

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.

Yes
Inactivity Rule

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

No data
Consistency Rule
Limited

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%.

Limited

Challenge Phase

  • Rapid Challenge: No consistency rule.
  • Legacy Challenge: Daily profit cannot exceed 40% of the total profit target. If exceeded, the profit target increases accordingly (new target = highest daily profit / 40%).

FundedNext Account

  • Rapid Account: 40% consistency rule applies (highest single-day profit must be ≤ 40% of total profit).
  • Legacy Account: No consistency rule (for challenges purchased or reset after November 21, 2025).
Hold Weekend
No
No
Prohibited Strategies
  • 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)
  • Platform error exploitation
  • Account sharing
  • Account rolling
  • Multi-order spam / coordinated trading exploits
  • Abusing slow data feed
  • Account flipping / inconsistent contract execution
  • Spoofing
  • Layering / order book shaping
  • Exploiting bracket strategies (tight brackets / no slippage)
  • Grid trading
  • Wash trading
  • Latency arbitrage
  • Reverse hedging
  • Hedging with correlated instruments
  • Trading in gapped or illiquid markets
  • Trading within 2% of CME price limits
  • Unauthorized copy or group trading
Overnight positions
No

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.

No

All positions must be closed by 3:10 PM CT (11:10 PM GMT+2 / 3:10 AM GMT+6) each trading day. Unclosed positions are automatically closed by the system. Trading resumes at 5:00 PM CT.

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