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🤝 $200K in accounts up for grabs in our partner tournament

Traders, we're hosting a tournament with Sparkling on October 22–23.

🏆 What are the prizes?

🥇 1st place – $100K Basic (Crypto or RWA)
🥈 2nd place – $50K Basic (Crypto or RWA)
🥉 3rd place – $25K Basic (Crypto or RWA)
🏅 4th place – $10K Basic (Crypto or RWA)
🏅 5th place – $5K Basic (Crypto or RWA)
🏅 6th–15th places – $1K Basic each (Crypto or RWA)

👨‍💻 How to participate?

1. Create an account using this link
2. Fill out the Google Form by October 21 to enter the tournament
3. Everyone who submits the form will be added to the Upscale tournament

✍️ Tournament details

Dates: October 22, 00:01 UTC – October 23, 23:59 UTC
Tournament account: $10K, all markets
Trailing drawdown: 10%

Join the tournament, climb the leaderboard, and compete for prizes!
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🤝 The exclusive tournament starts today at 10:00 UTC

Bought an account worth $10K or more during our "Second Account Free" promotion? Then this tournament is for you!

🔥 What's in store?

🏆 50 prize spots – 3,000 USDT and accounts up to $100K up for grabs.

📈 $10K tournament account with trailing drawdown. Winners will be determined by their final P&L.

⏰ Updated tournament schedule:

Start – October 19, 10:00 UTC
End – October 21, 10:00 UTC

Good luck and happy trading. See you on the leaderboard!
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🎁 5 x $5K accounts for the best comments

Have you watched our interview with Kirill yet?

He's kept the same funded account active for over a year. How long did your longest-lasting account survive?

🤔 Share your trading experience on YouTube

Watch the interview and leave a comment: What helps you keep your account alive? Which mistakes cost you the most? Or do you trade without strict rules?

☁️ We want to hear your real experiences, so AI-generated comments won't be considered.

🗓️ Leave your comment by October 21 (inclusive). After that, we'll pick the 5 most interesting ones and reward each author with a $5K Basic account!

🍿 Watch the interview and share your story
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📹 12 payouts and 22x returns from a single Upscale account!

Meet Kirill. He's been trading with us since August 20, 2025, keeping the same funded account active for over a year.

💰 $130 – spent on a $10K challenge
📈 $2,922 – withdrawn across 12 payouts
🔥 х22,5 – his total payouts compared to the challenge cost

🤝 We decided to scale up his success!

To reward almost 14 months of consistent trading, the Upscale team gifted Kirill a new $25K funded account, with no challenge required.

While other prop firms limit payouts, we believe successful traders deserve more opportunities to grow.

🎬 How did Kirill keep his account active for so long?

How did he secure 12 payouts with just a 50% win rate? And how does he balance trading with a full-time job?

🍿 Watch his story in our new video
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⚡️ Read the full interview
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Upscale 🤝 Sparkling

We’re teaming up with
@SparklingAI – a trading app with a built-in AI agent for swaps, perps, and prediction markets.

Next week, we’re launching a trading tournament with up to $200K in prizes.

Let's make trading great again 🔥
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⌛️ Our best Turbo offer ends in one hour!

Get two accounts for the price of one:

⚡️ Turbo up to $100K – get a second identical account for free, no challenge required.

🎁 Basic and Accelerated – get a second account for free after reaching the funded stage.

🏆 Buying an account from $10K also gets you an entry to our tournament with 50 prize spots: 3,000 USDT + accounts up to $100K.

👉 Choose your account before 10:00 UTC
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🤝 Your questions about the promotion, answered

How do you get a second account? Does Turbo qualify? Who gets into the private tournament? Here are all the details.

1️⃣ How do I get a second account for free?

Purchase one or more accounts during the promotion:

• Basic or Accelerated – pass the challenge and reach the funded stage. We’ll give you a new account of the same type and size.
• Turbo – get another account of the same type and size without passing a challenge.

Example: Purchase a $50K Basic → reach the funded stage → get another $50K Basic for free.

2️⃣ Do I need to pass the challenge within 24 hours?

No. You only need to purchase the account while the promotion is active.

Complete the challenge at your own pace. You’ll receive the free account after reaching the funded stage.

3️⃣ Can I purchase multiple accounts?

Yes. The promotion applies to every account purchased within the 24-hour period.

Purchase three Basic or Accelerated accounts and take all three to the funded stage – get three new accounts for free.

4️⃣ What if I want to start funded right away?

Choose Turbo up to $100K and start trading on a funded account without a challenge.

Turbo is also included in the promotion: you’ll get another account of the same type and size without passing a challenge.

5️⃣ How do I enter the private tournament?

Purchase any account with a size of $10K or more during the promotion – you’ll automatically receive a $10K tournament account with access to all markets.

• Two full days: October 19, 00:00 – October 20, 23:59 UTC
• Trailing drawdown applies
• Traders with the highest profit win

There are 50 prize-winning places:

🥇 1st: 1,000 USDT + winner’s trophy
🥈 2nd: $100K Basic (all markets) + 500 USDT
🥉 3rd: $100K Basic (Crypto or RWA) + 250 USDT
• 4th: $50K Basic (Crypto or RWA) + 125 USDT
• 5th: $25K Basic (Crypto or RWA) + 125 USDT
• 6th–10th: $10K Basic (Crypto or RWA) + 100 USDT
• 11th–20th: $5K Basic (Crypto or RWA) + 50 USDT
• 21st–50th: $1K Basic (Crypto or RWA)

6️⃣ Can I pay by card?

Yes. You can pay by card or use any of the other available payment methods.

We covered all available payment options in this post.

🗓 Available for 24 hours: until October 16, 10:00 UTC

👉 Choose one market and trade them all for the same price
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🔥 Pass the challenge – get a second account for free

Have a strategy that works? Great!

Pass the challenge, reach the funded stage, and get a second account for free.

🎁 How does it work?

1️⃣ Purchase one or more accounts during the promotion
2️⃣ For Basic and Accelerated accounts – pass the challenge, reach the funded stage, and get a new account of the same type and size
3️⃣ For Turbo – get a new account without passing a challenge

Don’t want to wait? Choose Turbo up to $100K and start trading on a funded account right away.

🏆 Purchase from $10K = a tournament entry

Two full days of trading and 50 prize-winning places. The prize pool includes 3,000 USDT + accounts up to $100K.

• $10K tournament accounts with trailing drawdown
• October 19, 00:00 – October 20, 23:59 UTC

🗓 Available for 24 hours: October 15, 10:00 – October 16, 10:00 UTC

👉 Choose your account and get more from your trading
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🤝 Upscale traders withdrew $39,015 this week

Getting a take-profit notification feels good. Seeing money hit your wallet? Even better.

This week, we processed $39,015 in payouts. The average was $1,147, with the largest reaching $7,041.

🫡 Every payout has a transaction behind it

While other firms show certificates, we back our payouts with on-chain transactions at upscale.trade. A public payout history is the Upscale standard.

👨‍💻 So how did traders get there?

What did they trade? Which strategies worked?

We cover all this in our trader interviews on YouTube. And if you've received a payout yourself, come show it off in our community's Payout Hall.

🔥 A little spoiler for those planning to get started

Tomorrow, we're launching a promo that makes getting started on your journey toward a payout with Upscale even more rewarding.

Turn on notifications so you don't miss the launch.
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🤖 What happens when you give AI $10K to trade with?

Alpha Arena decided to find out: they gave six AI models $10K each and complete freedom to trade.

We looked at the results and came up with an even more interesting question:

💡 Could any of these AI models pass an Upscale challenge?

We took our rules, compared them with the trading results, and made some interesting discoveries.

👉 Read how it all turned out

P.S. Do you use AI in trading?

🔥 - Yes, as a trading assistant
🚀 - Yes, it trades for me
🗿 - No, I rely on my own judgment
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Grabbed a screenshot from the demo for you. We were told “only for our people”. You’re our people 😏
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😏 Used to trading in lots? We’ve made you a cheat sheet

“Hey guys, is there a guide to managing positions on Upscale? I’m used to lots, and I’m finding this a bit confusing.”

Sound familiar? We’ve seen this question come up in chat more than once.

🫡 So we put together a quick guide to lots and position sizing, so you don’t have to dig through messages for answers.

🤝 Inside – how to size your position based on your stop loss and risk per trade, how much margin you’ll need, and what to watch out for when switching from lots.

All on one page. No signup. No SMS codes.

🔗 Download the PDF and keep it handy for your next trade. Still have questions? Drop them in the chat. We’ll work through them together!
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🤝 The move is complete

The @storm_support_bot is now running on the new service. You can contact our team as usual.

If you had an unresolved issue, please send us a new message. We’ll see your previous conversation and continue from where we left off.

The Upscale Team
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🤝 Making Upscale support easier to use

We’re moving our support bot @storm_support_bot to a new service to make it easier to reach our team.

The switch will take about 30–45 minutes. The bot will be temporarily unavailable during this time.

We’ll let you know here as soon as the move is complete.

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📹 A prop firm paid Artem $1,000. The next trading day, it banned him

Both stages passed. First payout received. Then came a ban for a rule that, according to Artem, he couldn’t find in the rulebook – even with Claude’s help.

😢 Meet Artem. And yes, it was another prop firm that banned him.

He’s been in crypto since 2017 and calls himself a “crypto retiree.” But he has no plans to go back to trading with his own money.

“You stop trading the chart and start trading your balance.”

🤝 At Upscale, Artem bought a $10K account, passed both stages, and received two payouts totaling $1,138, including a refund of his challenge fee.

🤔 How do you tell a good prop firm from a scam?

Why does trading his own $5,000 feel harder than trading a $10K prop account? And why did he remove the trendlines that used to cover almost every part of his chart? 👇

🍿 Watch the interview on YouTube
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⚡️ Read the text version
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🏆 Meet the Demo Tournament Winners

14,570 participants. Two and a half months of competition. And now – the grand finale.

Along the way, you claimed 1,861 free $1K accounts. Upscale became a place where you could earn trading profits even without starting capital.

🤝 Fair Competition Comes First

During the tournament and after it ended, you asked us to review the results – and we listened.

The review confirmed rule violations by two participants at the top of the funded-stage leaderboard. Their prize positions went to the next traders in the rankings.

The final tournament results are on the leaderboard.

🚀 Time to Claim Your Prizes!

Winners, send your Upscale ID, tournament stage, and final rank to @storm_support_bot. If your prize includes a choice of market, specify RWA or Crypto.

🫡 How Was the Tournament?

Drop a 🔥 if you’re already looking forward to the next one, or share your ideas in our community chat.
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👾 Introducing our developer documentation

Want to connect your own bot, algorithm, or integration? Getting started just got easier: our docs now have a ✨Developers✨ section.

Inside, you’ll find a quickstart guide, authentication, methods, request parameters, and examples.

Everything in one place, whether you’re starting from scratch or looking for a specific answer.

💡 And there’s more

You’ve often asked: “Where can I see what’s changed in Upscale?”

Now you can: we’ve added a Changelog. It shows which features have been released and when.

🤝 In prop trading, open documentation isn’t a privilege. It’s respect for the trader.
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🎉 “Guess the Update” Contest Winners

Many of you guessed it: ⚙️🤖📈 hinted at the API launch. Now you can trade on Upscale manually or connect your own bots and algorithms.

The update also introduced new trading pairs and Turbo accounts up to $100K.

⭐️ We randomly selected five winners from everyone who guessed correctly:

@goncharovnik
@zmaxi_hl
@ArturMFX
@Slim1033
@Anans_72

Congratulations! Each winner gets a $5K account.

👉 To claim your prize, message @storm_support_bot with your Upscale ID and preferred account type: crypto or RWA.

See you at our next community events!
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🔥 Your bonus accounts have been credited

Congratulations to everyone who became the first owners of API-enabled accounts on Upscale! Trade manually or connect your own algorithms – it’s all in your hands.

Explore API features, rules, and connection examples in our documentation.

🤝 Welcome to a new era of Upscale!
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⏳ Last 2 hours to get a free second account

Choose any account from $10K and get a second one free – the same type and market, one size lower, with API access.

Offer ends today at 10:00 UTC.

👉 Choose an account
🔗 Offer details
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💰 Upscale traders withdrew $26,215 this week

And $2,635,265 in total so far.

When you look at a number like that, it can feel like just one big figure. But behind it are hundreds of individual moments: passing the challenge, staying disciplined, waiting for the right entry, closing the trade, and finally withdrawing the profit.

⭐️ On the cards - this week’s top 5 payouts

One trader even managed to withdraw profits twice in just 3 days.

And there’s one thing we especially like about this: you don’t have to take our word for it. Every payout can be verified onchain - including the amount, date, and wallet address. It’s all available at http://upscale.trade/.

💡 And a little spoiler for tomorrow

We’re bringing back one of your favorite promos. So if you’ve been thinking about trying Upscale, this might be the perfect time.

🫶 Thanks for being with us. See you in the https://t.me/upscale_chats!
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📹 This is Artem. Air traffic controller. He failed a challenge

Alright. If every trader’s story ended with their first failed account, this series would be pretty short.

At work, Artem watches planes. In his free time - the market.

"Sometimes I wake up between shifts when important news drops, check it - looks neutral - and go back to sleep."

Staying just as calm about his own trades took a little longer.

After several failed attempts at other prop firms, he went back to demo trading, reviewed his mistakes, and built a more systematic approach.

🫡 Today, Artem has a 71% win rate and his first 990 USDT payout from Upscale.

How an air traffic controller learned to manage his own risk, where trading signals fit into his strategy, and whether they’re worth trusting - in our new interview.

🍿 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScKblH4gjNw&list=PLw1FF2kSFlMR8UFi0vFWHGBTaMSR1MDsj
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⚡️ https://upscale.trade/blog/success-story-artem
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💰 How to get a $1,000 prop account for free

Here’s how:

1️⃣ Open a demo account on Upscale

2️⃣ Complete the challenge at your own pace

3️⃣ Get a $1K account with profit withdrawals enabled

Today, we gave out another 160 accounts like this. And we’ll keep doing it every Monday until September 30.

And it gets better: if you finish https://app.upscale.trade/sh/Vp5kS during the funded stage, you’ll get 5,000 USDT plus other prizes.

🫡 Why are we giving accounts away for free?

Because the idea behind Upscale is simple: you don’t need your own capital to become a successful trader. What matters much more is skill and risk management.

https://app.upscale.trade/sh/Vp5kS and show us what your strategy can do 💪
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🫡 Who are these people? Our traders!

Some of you open the terminal at home with a cat sleeping nearby. Some trade between shifts at work, with kids around, from the car, or even from a cucumber greenhouse.

You're all completely different. But somehow, trading has found its place in each of your lives.

Picking just three winners was seriously hard. But we did our best. Meet them:

🍣 https://t.me/upscale_chats
🔨 https://t.me/upscale_chats
👱‍♀️ https://t.me/upscale_chats

👆 These three are taking home a $25K account + a case of Corona each, just as promised.

But you didn't really think we'd stop there, did you? There were way too many great entries, so we decided to give 5 more winners a $5K account each:

🥒 https://t.me/upscale_chats
😻 https://t.me/upscale_chats
🚗 https://t.me/upscale_chats
⚡️ https://t.me/upscale_chats
📝 https://t.me/upscale_chats

Winners, message https://t.me/storm_support_bot and let us know which account type you want - Crypto or RWA. And if you won a case of Corona, send us your delivery address too.

Thank you to everyone who showed us a little piece of life on the other side of the screen.

🫶 Upscale = community
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📊 Support & Resistance Trading: A Beginner’s Guide

Price often reverses or slows down around the same zones — and traders use them to look for potential entry and exit points.

Support and resistance levels help identify these areas on the chart.

In our new guide, we break down how to find them, what makes a level strong, and why you shouldn’t enter a trade just because price touches a zone.

Download the full guide in PDF 👇
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📉 “Give me BTC at $60K — I’m definitely buying.”

October 2025. BTC is above $120K.

You’re thinking: “Give me $75–80K and I’m in.”

August 2026. BTC spends months trading around $58–66K.

And suddenly you’re thinking:

“No one’s buying. Maybe it’s too early.”
“Looks weak. We’re probably going lower.”

Then BTC makes a sharp move and, within a few days, goes $62K → $65K → $73K → $78K.

And now you’re like:

“Damn, take me back to $62K.”
“I missed the entry.”
“Give me $68K and I’m definitely buying.”

😞 Sound familiar?

When the price is high, you want it cheaper.
When it gets cheap, suddenly it looks suspicious.
When the fear disappears, the price is already high again.

👨‍💻 And the problem isn’t the market. Or BTC.

The problem starts when your trading plan changes with every candle.

If at $120K you decided a certain level looked attractive, define in advance where you’ll enter, where the idea is invalidated, and how much risk you’re willing to take on the trade.

And if the conditions change, change your decision because the setup changed — not because you got scared.

🫡 An Upscale challenge is a great place to practice exactly this: getting the market direction right isn’t enough. You also need to keep your emotions from taking over.

You can read the BTC move perfectly and still lose the account because of FOMO, increasing your risk, or trying to win it all back immediately.

So here’s the simple takeaway:

Build the plan before the trade. Execute it during the trade.

🤝 But there’s good news too: if you do get it wrong and lose the account, you’ve risked the cost of the challenge — not the entire trading capital.

That’s one of the core ideas behind prop trading: more capital to trade — limited risk for the trader.
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🫡 How is funding calculated in Upscale?

Some of you may have noticed that the funding amount on certain positions has changed. Here’s why — and how the calculation works.

📊 First, the key point: funding in prop trading works differently from funding in the perpetual futures market.

In the regular market, funding is a payment between market participants: depending on market conditions, either longs pay shorts or shorts pay longs.

💼 Upscale works differently

You trade with capital provided by the platform.

While your position remains open, Upscale manages the risk associated with it: hedging through external venues and covering costs such as market funding, borrowing costs, bid-ask spreads, liquidity, and potential differences between your position and its market hedge.

These costs arise regardless of whether the position is Long or Short.

That’s why funding in Upscale represents the cost of keeping a position open. It applies to both Long and Short positions.

🧮 How is the amount calculated?

Funding is calculated based on the full position size, including leverage.

For example:

$1,000 margin × 5x leverage = a $5,000 position.

Funding is calculated on the full $5,000.

✍️ Why did the amount change?

We recently discovered that, in some cases, leverage was not being taken into account when calculating funding.

For example, a position could be opened with 5x leverage while funding was calculated as if the leverage were 1x.

We’ve fixed this — funding is now always calculated based on the full leveraged position size.

Based on daily statistics after the update, the total amount of funding charged increased by approximately 2.5x on average. The difference may be more noticeable for individual positions depending on the leverage used.

📉 At the same time, we reduced the base funding rate

To keep the cost of holding positions balanced, we:

• reduced funding for Forex pairs by 5x starting August 7;
• reduced funding for cryptocurrencies by 2x starting August 19.

👀 How can you avoid funding charges?

Funding is not charged on every price tick — it is applied at fixed intervals. For crypto, it is charged every 8 hours. For other assets, once per day.

Don’t want to pay funding? Close your position even one minute before the funding charge and continue trading afterward.

💡 How is the funding rate determined?

The rate is set by Upscale based on the cost of capital and the expenses associated with managing market risk.

As a general reference, it ranges from 3% to 20% annually, depending on the market and current market conditions.

We want you to understand the trading conditions before opening a position — not figure them out afterward. That’s why the funding rate, charge time, and amount of the next funding payment are always available in advance.

You can always find more information about funding https://doc.bookflow.sh/trading-mechanics/funding.

Best regards,
The Upscale Team
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📈 Trading on Upscale just got easier

Traders, we took your most frequent requests and turned them into an update. Here’s what’s new:

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📌 Want to keep your trading pairs in view?

You can now pin the pairs panel on the left – it stays open while you work with charts and trades.

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Edit the price and size of existing Stop Loss and Take Profit orders without wasting time recreating them.

👑 Want to share an epic trade?

Choose exactly what appears on your trade card: PnL %, PnL amount, leverage, and price.

You can also now log in or sign up for Upscale with any email – no password needed, just a one-time link sent to your inbox.

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Because a strong product isn’t just a collection of features. It’s built around the people who use it every day.
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