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Am Langenwall 1, 18439 Stralsund, Germany
2nd Floor, 412 S. Wells, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
Lennard Wenderholm
James Thorpe
Germany
United States
2020
Lvlup charges no payout fee.
- US Wire Transfer: Free
- International Wire Transfer: $15/withdrawal
- Crypto L1: $2.5/withdrawal + estimated gas fees
- Crypto L2: Free
Both the evaluation and the funded account are simulated, unless a separate agreement says otherwise.
Funded Live Access
Up to 5 active Funded Live accounts per trader.
90% profit split on Funded Live.
Clear position scaling rules and structured account transition.
No Activation Fee
TradeDay 2.0 removes the activation fee that existed in the previous model.
- 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.
Day-one payouts on Quick Pay (no buffer). Requests submitted before 17:30 CT processed within 24 hours on business days. No frequency limit.
Approved payouts are processed within 48 hours at most, usually 24 to 48h.
- 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.
Fast Pass Funded Sim maximum per request: $1,500 (50K), $1,875 (100K), $2,250 (150K).
- Starter: $500 on every size.
- Lvlup: no published minimum.
$250 minimum per payout request.
- 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.
No resets: if an account fails, a new one is bought with a one-time payment.
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.
Two drawdown types available, both Trailing Maximum Drawdown:
Intraday TMD
Calculated in real time from unrealized profits during the session.
End of Day TMD
Calculated from realized profits at end of day (16:00 CT close). Follows account growth until frozen at the initial balance.
Funded Sim drawdown type matches the evaluation type purchased.
80% on Lvlup and 100% on Starter.
Quick Pay Funded Sim
- 80% trader / 20% TradeDay above $4,000 gross profit
- 50% trader / 50% TradeDay below $4,000 gross profit
- Split evaluated per account
Fast Pass Funded Sim
- 80% trader / 20% TradeDay
Funded Live
- 90% trader / 10% TradeDay
No daily loss limit.
$1,000,000 per trader, adding up every active account, evaluation and funded.
Up to 10 Evaluation accounts and 5 Funded Sim accounts simultaneously per trader. Up to 5 active Funded Live accounts per trader. Multiple Funded Sim accounts allowed. Single-member US LLC allowed. Multi-member LLC, S-corps and C-corps not allowed.
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.
Unlimited
5 in the evaluation. Any day with at least one executed trade counts.
- Quick Pay: 5 trading days minimum (non-consecutive).
- Fast Pass: no minimum trading days.
- 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 TradeDay 2.0.
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.
Fast Pass Funded Sim: 5 profitable days per payout; $150/$200/$250 minimum daily profit on 50K/100K/150K.
- 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 payment per account, with no monthly subscription. See challenges for current list prices and promotions for active discounts.
Fast Pass Funded Sim starts at 2/3/4 contracts for 50K/100K/150K, then adds one contract per $2,000 of EOD profit. Quick Pay limits are fixed by account size.
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 if using supported platforms: NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Tradingview, Jigsaw, Quantower. TradeDay does NOT expose Tradovate API. Own systems allowed (NOT purchased from third parties). If multiple users make same trades: All accounts closed.
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 allowed EXCEPT: High-frequency ATS, >200 trades per day, trades in few seconds for 1-2 ticks, playing with sim matching engine.
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 from a trader's own account into their TradeDay account, and between two of the trader's own TradeDay Funded Sim accounts. NOT allowed between Funded Live and Funded Sim, and NOT allowed between two different users. Compatible third-party tools: Tradesyncer (TDTC), Flowbots (tradeday), Expert Trading Programmers (TradeDay25OFF).
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.
TradeDay does not charge inactivity fees. However, Tradovate archives the account after 1 month without login.
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%.
Quick Pay: 30% consistency in evaluation. Fast Pass: 45% consistency in evaluation and Funded Sim. Funded Live has no consistency rule.
- 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)
- Using bots/ATS purchased from third parties
- Systems generating >200 trades in a day
- Strategies trading in few seconds to capture only a few ticks
- Attempting to capture queue position advantage by playing with sim engine
- Spoofing and layering (per CME Group rules)
- Order splitting (multiple limit orders at same price simultaneously)
- Trading in illiquid markets to benefit from missed fills
- Exploiting lack of slippage in simulation (e.g., bracket orders in data releases)
- Trading outside best bid/offer
- Using external or slow data feed
- High-frequency trading or short-term trading
- Simultaneous opposite positions between accounts
- Multiple registrations with different names/emails
- Using VPN or VPS to mask location
- Hedging: Prohibited (trading long in one account and short in another for same product)
- Trading within 2% of price limit (Funded Live only, loss of account)
- Microscalping (positions held <5-10 seconds dominating profit)
- Trading Tier 1 news/data releases (2 min before/after, auto-liquidation)
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.
