Upscale Trade FAQs

Upscale is a prop trading platform that gives traders funded accounts from $5,000 to $200,000. A trader pays a one-off challenge fee starting at $59, passes an evaluation that shows a steady result and risk control, and receives a funded account with an 80–90% profit share. Payouts are made in USDT to a non-custodial wallet. No KYC or identity verification is required: you sign in with Telegram, Google or a crypto wallet. The terminal is built on TradingView, prices come from the Stork and Pyth Network oracles, and some instruments are priced by Upscale's own Upscale Price Index.

Open @UpscaleTradeBot or the Upscale.trade website and sign in with Telegram, Google or a crypto wallet — Tonkeeper, MetaMask, Phantom, Trust Wallet, OKX Wallet and others are supported. No documents or verification are needed. Once signed in, choose the challenge format, account size and asset category, pay for the challenge and start trading.

No. Upscale requires no KYC, documents or verification of any kind. A trader signs in with Telegram, Google or a crypto wallet and starts trading right after buying a challenge. Payouts go directly to the non-custodial USDT wallet the trader provides.

A trader must be of legal age in their country of residence. There are no geographic restrictions — the platform is available to traders worldwide, as a web app and as a Telegram mini-app.

Yes. A demo account gives access to every asset category — Crypto, RWA and ALL. The demo mirrors a paid challenge: the same stages, profit targets and drawdown limits, plus real quotes, spreads, fees and funding. After the stages are passed, a demo version of a funded account opens. Requesting a payout on it earns a one-off 20% discount on a real challenge. On demo, the API trading option is activated when the challenge is created.

There are three formats:

Basic — a two-stage evaluation. Stage 1: 5% profit and at least 3 profit days. Stage 2: 8% profit and at least 5 profit days. Daily drawdown 5%, maximum drawdown 10%.

Accelerated — a single stage. A 10% profit target with at least 3 profit days. Daily drawdown 3%, maximum drawdown 6%.

Turbo — no evaluation stages: the account opens straight at the funded stage. There is no profit target. There is no daily drawdown; a 6% dynamic drawdown from the highest balance applies instead. A payout requires 5 profit days and compliance with the 30% rule.

The price depends on the account size and the asset category. Entry starts at $59 for a $5,000 RWA Basic challenge. Basic challenges range from $59 to $1,499, Accelerated from $69 to $1,599 and Turbo from $199 to $3,599.

Basic challenge pricing:

Accelerated challenge pricing:

Turbo pricing:

Basic suits traders who prefer softer risk limits and a structured two-stage evaluation. Accelerated is for experienced traders who want a shorter path to a funded account. Turbo gives a funded account immediately, but uses a dynamic drawdown from the highest balance and the 30% rule on payouts.

A profit target is calculated on realised PnL — closed trades only. Unrealised profit on open positions does not count towards the target.

On Basic, the Stage 1 target is 5% of the starting balance (for example, $500 on a $10,000 account) and the Stage 2 target is 8% ($800 on a $10,000 account). On Accelerated it is 10% ($1,000 on a $10,000 account). Turbo has no profit target.

In both the Telegram app and the web version: Telegram Stars, GRAM and USDT on TON.

Web version only: USDT on TRC-20, BEP-20 and ERC-20, USDC on ERC-20 and Solana, SOL, USDT on Solana, ETH, BNB, TRX, bank card (Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay) and SBP.

Supported wallets include Tonkeeper, Tonhub, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, OKX Wallet, Phantom, Rainbow, Solflare, Bitget Wallet, Coinbase Wallet, Exodus and WalletConnect. The payment method does not affect the account size or the challenge terms.

A discount applies only to the base challenge price: additional options are always charged in full.

On a Basic challenge and the funded account that follows it, the limit is 5% of the balance at the start of the trading day. On Accelerated and the funded account that follows it, it is 3%. Turbo has no separate daily drawdown limit; only the dynamic drawdown applies.

The trading day is counted in UTC and starts at 00:00 UTC. Each day is assessed independently: a loss on the previous day does not affect the next day's limit.

On Basic it is 10% of the starting balance and on Accelerated 6% of the starting balance. For new $200,000 Basic challenges, an 8% limit applies on Stage 2 and on the funded stage.

On Turbo the maximum drawdown is 6% of the highest balance reached. It is dynamic: it is recalculated at every new balance high and lowered after a payout.

Example: a starting balance of $10,000 grows to $12,000, so the lowest allowed balance becomes $11,280. After a $1,000 payout, at a balance of $11,000, the new minimum is $10,340.

Every drawdown limit is calculated from the balance including unrealised PnL on open positions: a losing open position reduces the balance in real time.

The account is closed immediately: open positions are force-closed at market price, pending orders are cancelled, accumulated profit is voided and access to the account is revoked. The rule applies both during the challenge stages and on a funded account.

For some Basic and Accelerated funded accounts the platform may offer a paid restoration — a restart of the funded stage on the same account. The offer appears automatically on the account card and is valid for up to 48 hours.

A profit day is a trading day where the balance changed by at least 0.5% of the account's starting balance. On a $10,000 account that is $50. The balance including unrealised PnL is used for the calculation.

Minimum profit days: 3 on Basic Stage 1, 5 on Basic Stage 2 and on every funded account, 3 on Accelerated, and 5 on Turbo before a payout. Profit days accumulate with no time limit. The trading day starts at 00:00 UTC.

Hedging between accounts is prohibited: you cannot hold opposite positions in the same instrument on different accounts. Within a single account, a long and a short in the same instrument are allowed.

Programmatic trading is allowed with the API Trading option: it is enabled on a specific challenge and opens API access for bots, scripts and analytics tools. Along with the option, the 60-second profit adjustment and the 30% rule apply to the account.

Systematically copying another Upscale trader's trades is prohibited — manually, through the API, a bot, a signal service or any other automation. If the instrument, direction, timing and relative position size systematically match between different traders, it may be treated as one person running several accounts (multi-accounting). Similar strategies on their own are not prohibited, and occasional overlapping trades are perfectly normal. An API key is meant for the account owner only and must not be passed to other traders.

Identical same-direction trades across several accounts of the same trader are allowed. If one account already holds positions in both directions in an instrument, you cannot open a position in that instrument on another account.

All other strategies — scalping, swing trading, news trading, holding positions — are allowed. There are no limits on holding time, the number of trades or position size within the available leverage.

Indices close for the weekend, so positions opened just before the close are force-closed: carrying a fresh position across a closed market means uncontrolled gap risk at the Monday open.

If a US500, NAS100, US30 or US2000 position is opened or increased on Friday between 19:00 and 21:00 UTC, it is closed in full at 20:59 UTC and its linked stop loss, take profit and trailing stop are cancelled. For GER40 and EU50 the window is an hour earlier: 18:00 to 20:00 UTC, with the close at 19:59 UTC. Times are given for US summer time; from November 1 the windows move one hour later. Positions opened before the window and not increased afterwards are carried over the weekend as usual.

When an account moves between stages, the platform checks the actual trading result of the stage against the profit target — a safeguard against cases where the balance reached the target because of a technical failure. The check normally takes a few seconds. If the result does not match, the account goes to manual review: trading is temporarily blocked while the rest of the account data stays available. The status updates automatically, and if the review takes longer than 12 hours, a button to contact support appears in the window.

The category is chosen when buying a challenge:

Crypto — more than 100 crypto pairs, including BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, GRAM and DOGE. Traded around the clock.

RWA — 7 currency pairs (AUD/USD, EUR/USD, GBP/USD, NZD/USD, USDCAD, USDCHF, USDJPY), commodities (XAU, XAG, WTI, NATGAS, HG), 7 indices (US500, NAS100, US30, US2000, GER40, EU50, KR200) and 20 24/7 stocks, including the Korean SMSN, HYUNDAI and SKHY.

ALL — full access to every category.

Index instruments are built on data from the corresponding futures markets. The former ETF-based indices (SPY, QQQM, DIA, IWM) have been moved to close-only mode.

A TradingView-based terminal, available in the web version at upscale.trade and through the Telegram bot. It includes charts, order management, portfolio tracking and account analytics. Crypto and classic RWA prices come from the Stork and Pyth Network oracles, while 24/7 stocks, WTI, natural gas, copper and indices are quoted through Upscale's own Upscale Price Index. The platform supports five languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

Leverage is lower on Turbo accounts across every category. The leverage you choose should match your experience and risk management approach.

A fee is charged on every position open and close.

The crypto spread is dynamic. On BTC and ETH it is zero when positions are opened at least an hour apart, and closing those pairs always carries a zero spread. Forex has a static 0.0015% spread. On the other RWA assets the rate depends on the trading session: lowest while the exchange is open, and wider at night, on holidays and at weekends.

24/7 stocks, indices, WTI, natural gas and copper also carry daily funding of 0.025%. On US and European indices and on copper, Friday carries a triple 0.075% rate covering the weekend.

Crypto trades around the clock, with no weekends off. 24/7 stocks, KR200 and natural gas are also available around the clock, including weekends and holidays — with a 10-minute pause around the main exchange open on regular trading days.

Forex, gold, silver, WTI crude oil, copper and the US and European indices follow a schedule with a weekend pause. The exact hours for each category are on the Trading Assets page of the documentation.

While RWA markets are paused, new positions cannot be opened, existing positions stay open, funding is not charged, and a payout request is unavailable if you hold open positions on a paused market.

Once all evaluation stages are passed — two on Basic, one on Accelerated — the funded account is activated automatically. On Turbo the account is at the funded stage from day one. The funded account's risk parameters match the challenge format that was passed. When moving between stages, all open positions are closed at market price and pending limit orders are cancelled.

By default 80/20: the trader keeps 80% of the profit and Upscale keeps 20%. A 90/10 option can be added when buying a challenge, raising the trader's share to 90%. The option is especially noticeable with consistently profitable trading.

Payouts are made in USDT to a non-custodial wallet on one of three networks: TON, Base or BSC. The first request becomes available 14 calendar days after the move to a funded account, and the count restarts after every successful payout.

A request requires at least 5 profit days, no risk parameter breaches, a balance above the starting balance of the current trading iteration, and free margin covering the amount. On Turbo accounts and accounts with the API option, the 30% rule applies as well.

Every payout closes the current trading iteration and starts a new one: the balance after the payout becomes the new starting balance, and the maximum drawdown threshold is recalculated from it.

The limit is calculated from the account's starting balance, not the current one. Profit above the limit stays on the balance, keeps working in trading and can be withdrawn in later periods. A platform fee of 10% to 20% is deducted from each request, matching the profit split you chose.

The rule applies to Turbo accounts and to accounts with the API Trading option enabled. If the single most profitable day accounts for 30% or more of total profit, a payout is unavailable until that share falls.

Example: total profit is $2,500 and the best day brought $1,500 — that is 60%, so the payout is blocked. For the share to drop to 30%, total profit needs to reach $5,000. The rule rewards a steady result rather than reliance on one trade.

Yes. The combined notional of active Basic and Accelerated funded accounts is capped at $400,000. Turbo accounts have a separate cap of $100,000. The caps are independent: the amount used in one does not reduce the other.

If a new account does not fit within the cap, it is still created but paused, and it is activated once room frees up — for example, after another account closes. Paused, archived, failed, demo and tournament accounts do not count towards the caps.

If there are no trades for 90 days in a row, the account is frozen. It can be unfrozen through support. There is no automatic closure for inactivity: the account and its balance are preserved.

When moving from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of a Basic challenge, all open positions are closed at market price and pending limit orders are cancelled. The platform then checks the stage result against the profit target. The new stage starts from a balance equal to the account size. Accelerated has a single stage, and Turbo has no evaluation stages.

Yes, a multi-tier one: Silver 10%, Gold 12% and Platinum 15%. The reward is calculated on the price of the challenge your referral bought, without additional options. Activity and earnings are tracked in real time in the Referrals section, where the referral links are as well.

Yes. In the Referrals section, tap the edit icon in the block showing who invited you and enter the new referrer's referral code. A change is available before your first purchase, no more than three times and no more often than once every 45 days. If you have no referrer yet, you can add one in the same place — adding one for the first time does not count as a change.

Yes, regularly, on real and demo accounts. Prizes include free challenges. In challenge tournaments the leaderboard is split into tabs by phase, and an account appears in the tab of its current phase. Active tournaments, ranks and the schedule are in the Tournaments section.

Through the Telegram bot @storm_support_bot. For discussion and news there is the community: t.me/upscale_chats.