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🏆 Upscale Demo Tournament: Real Rewards, Zero Investment

The legend is back — and this time, it’s bigger than ever.

We’re launching a new demo tournament with free entry, unlimited attempts, and rewards including 5,000 USDT, accounts up to $100K, an exclusive merch box, and even the chance to join the Upscale team.

🚀 How to participate

1. Open a new demo account after this announcement. Already have one? Close it and create a new one so the system can register your entry.

2. Complete the challenge phases and generate as much profit as possible.

3. Lost the account? Start again — attempts are unlimited.

💰 $500K+ prize pool

1. Highest profit in Phase 1: Basic $25K with all markets

2. Highest profit in Phase 2: Basic $50K with all markets

3. Highest profit at the Funded stage:

🥇 1st place — 5,000 USDT + trophy + exclusive merch box + a special opportunity from the Upscale team
🥈 2nd place — Basic $100K account with all markets
🥉 3rd place — Basic $50K account with all markets
• 4th place — Basic $25K account with all markets
• 5th place — Basic $10K account with all markets
• 6th–10th places — Basic $10K account for crypto or RWA
• 11th–20th places — Basic $5K account for crypto or RWA

⚡️ And most importantly: everyone who reaches Funded during the tournament is guaranteed a Basic $1,000 account — one per user.

🗓 Tournament dates: July 13 through September 30, 13:00 UTC.

The live leaderboard and overall progress will be available in the Tournaments tab — that’s where the real competition begins.

🥇 Trade with zero investment and win with Upscale.

💰 Over $2,000,000 paid out to Upscale traders

Dear Upscalers, just 3 months ago we were writing about our first $1M in payouts. Today, we’re writing about the second — and that is all thanks to you!

Behind this number are your attempts, wins, and stories that you share with us every day. And we’re proud to showcase your achievements on our website, in the Hall of Fame, and in YouTube interviews.

🚀 $2,000,000 in payouts is no accident. Upscale remains one of the most trader-friendly prop firms on the market, with no sudden bans or vague wording. We don’t build our product around restrictions. We build it around traders who know how to earn.

📈 Over these 3 months, we launched our first fast tournaments, introduced the AI Assistant, improved account analytics, and fully updated our website — where every payout is verified by a transaction.

🫶 Today, Upscale is a place where traders with any starting capital can trade under some of the best conditions. You choose us, and we choose you.

Thank you for being with us!
The Upscale Team

📹 He followed other traders’ signals – and withdrew $6,795. But he didn’t take every setup

This is Vova. He’s 23, works in building maintenance, and had already quit trading several times after things didn’t work out.

In January, he came back with just $100, slowly worked his way into prop trading – and blew his first account in 3–4 days.

😫 The very next day, he bought another one.

💰 That account later brought him three payouts: $3,600, $2,745, and $450.

Vova is completely open about it – he passed his prop challenge using signals from more experienced traders, but he never copied every trade blindly:

“Filtering your trades is crucial. You can’t take every setup you see. If I hit a stop-loss, that’s usually my only trade for the day.”

So how did a beginner learn to separate good ideas from noise, avoid turning signals into random entries – and make it all the way to $6,795 in payouts?

🍿 Watch the interview on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

📈 Trade stocks and oil 24/7

While traditional exchanges say “see you Monday,” trading on Upscale keeps going. Stocks from some of the world’s biggest companies and WTI crude are now available 24/7.

And to celebrate the launch, we’re giving away 5 accounts worth $100K in total.

🔥 New assets are live in the terminal

Apple on Sunday? NVIDIA at night? Oil on a holiday? Now you can.
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Tesla + WTI crude oil

They’re all already available on All Markets, Classic, and Demo accounts.

💼 What should you know before your first trade?

Leverage is 5x on Basic and Accelerated accounts and 2x on Turbo. Spreads vary by trading session, and there’s a short technical break on weekdays.

Open interest limits are calculated separately for each account and instrument, with Long and Short positions counted independently. Current limits are always visible in the terminal.

Check the documentation for the full rules and details on the new markets.

🎁 Launch Giveaway

Prize pool: $100K in accounts

🥇 50K Basic
🥈 25K Basic
🥉 10K Basic
🏅 10K Basic
🏅 5K Basic

How to enter:

1️⃣ Try the new instruments in the terminal
2️⃣ Tell us in the contest chat what you think about trading stocks 24/7
3️⃣ Tell us which markets or instruments you’d like to see next on Upscale: crypto, RWA, stocks, or something completely new

Your feedback will help shape which markets we add next.

On August 14, we’ll randomly select 5 winners.

A trading idea shouldn’t have to wait for the market to open. Now it doesn’t.

💪 Open the terminal and trade 24/7

📚 New documentation with an AI assistant

Getting around Upscale just got even easier.

We’ve completely rebuilt our documentation. Instead of GitBook, we now have our own knowledge base with a fresh design, clearer structure, and global access.

🤖 Ask a question through “Ask AI” — if the answer is in the docs, the AI assistant will find it for you in seconds.

🌏 Choose your language — the documentation is now available in Russian, English, and Spanish.

🤲 Explore the updated design and detailed breakdowns of all the latest features.

🤝 Transparent rules aren’t a bonus. They’re a sign of respect for traders.

👉 Open the documentation and ask AI your first question

🌟 The Demo Tournament continues

It’s been just three weeks since the tournament started, and 133 traders have already reached funded stage and claimed their well-earned rewards!

You can do it too – there are still almost two months left to compete for free, where strategy is what makes the difference.

🔥 Current standings:

🚀 Total participants: 6877
⚡️ In Phase 1: 5581
⭐️ In Phase 2: 1163
👑 Reached Funded: 133

👉 Reminder: everyone who reaches the Funded stage during the tournament gets a guaranteed $1,000 account, and attempts are unlimited.

🏆 The top traders in both challenge phases and on Funded will compete for prizes worth up to $100,000 and 5,000 USDT.

Open a demo account, track your position in the Tournaments tab, and compete for major prizes without spending a cent!

📈 Meet the new indices on Upscale

Six new instruments are now available on All Markets, Classic, and Demo accounts:
🇺🇸 US500 – the largest US companies
🇺🇸 NAS100 – the largest US tech companies
🇺🇸 US30 – US blue-chip companies
🇺🇸 US2000 – US small-cap companies
🇩🇪 GER40 – the largest German companies
🇪🇺 EU50 – the largest companies in the eurozone

And these aren't just new tickers. Prices are based on aggregated futures market data, which means:
• Trade up to 23 hours a day, 5 days a week
• Access the markets outside regular US trading hours
• Get index-style pricing without ETF splits
• Fees and spreads during the main trading session stay the same

💼 What happens to the old ETFs?

They're being replaced by the new index instruments:
SPY → US500
QQQM → NAS100
DIA → US30
IWM → US2000

SPY, QQQM, DIA, and IWM are now in Close Only mode. You can close your existing positions by the end of this week and move over to the new, more convenient instruments.

Upscale keeps growing – and so does the range of markets you can trade. We especially love adding instruments you actually want to see on the platform.

📹 He’s 18 – and he’s already received a $1,240 prop trading payout

Meet Nikita. He’s just finished school, and his first payout from Upscale was six times bigger than the most he’d ever had in his wallet before.

“The most I’d ever had was $200 – and I lost that following other people’s signals.”

😞 For three years, Nikita lost money blindly copying Telegram signals, hoping someone else understood the market better.

Everything changed when he stopped chasing ready-made entries and started taking responsibility for his own decisions.

💪 In just 22 days, he passed the Upscale challenge and withdrew $1,240 in profit.

“You don’t need a huge amount of capital – that’s what prop trading is for. The main thing is not to be afraid.”

In the interview, Nikita breaks down the mistakes that cost him years – so you don’t have to repeat them yourself 👇

🍿 Watch the interview on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

How to join Upscale’s private tournament

Upscale’s private quick tournament starts this weekend. Not everyone can join – access is available only to promo participants 👇

1️⃣ Buy any account from $10K by July 31, 08:00 UTC
2️⃣ Receive a separate tournament account automatically
3️⃣ Trade over the weekend and climb the P&L leaderboard
4️⃣ Claim the other promo bonuses and tournament prizes

🏆 Tournament prize pool:

• 50 prize places
• 3,000 USDT
• Upscale accounts up to $100K
• Winner’s trophy

🔥 And here’s the best part

Once the purchased account reaches the Funded stage, a new account of the same type and size will be credited for free.

Basic and Accelerated accounts will also receive daily drawdown protection.

🔗 Full promo terms are available in this post👇

🔥 Pass the Challenge — Get a Second Account Free

One bad trading day can send you back to square one. Not this time.

For 24 hours only, get daily drawdown protection on Basic and Accelerated accounts and a free new account once you reach the Funded stage.

🎁 How does it work?

1️⃣ Buy one or more accounts during the promotion
2️⃣ Get daily drawdown protection on purchased Basic and Accelerated accounts
3️⃣ Pass your challenges and reach the funded stage
4️⃣ Get a new account of the same type and size for every account that reaches the Funded stage

And that’s not all!

🏆 Buy a $10K+ account = enter an exclusive tournament

Purchase an account worth $10K or more and automatically secure your spot in an exclusive tournament on August 1–2.

• 2 trading days — Saturday and Sunday
• 50 prize-winning spots
• 3,000 USDT + accounts worth up to $100K in prizes

🗓 For 24 hours only: July 30, 08:00 to July 31, 08:00 UTC

👉 Choose your accounts and keep trading without buying another account

Daily drawdown protection and tournament access will be added by the end of Friday

❓ Been looking into prop trading but still don’t know where to start?

Maybe it’s not trading itself that’s stopping you, but the risk of losing your own money and all the confusing terms: challenges, funded accounts, drawdowns…

🔠 We get it, so we made this video for you.

Inside, you’ll find a 5-minute breakdown of how to get access to a large trading account, why you need to pass a challenge, and what the path to your first payout looks like.

Watch it if you’ve wanted to try prop trading for a while but first want to understand what you’re getting into 👇

🍿 Watch on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

P.S. You’ll also find a playlist with breakdowns of other challenges below the video – we’ll keep updating it with new episodes.

🏆 5,629 traders have already joined the Demo Tournament

77 of them have already reached the funded stage and received a free $1K account.

⚡️ What’s at stake?

A winner’s trophy, the chance to turn your demo profits into 5,000 USDT, and a share of $500K in Upscale accounts.

🔠 Ready to join them?

Just open a demo account and start trading – there are still 64 days left.

No entry fee. No extra sign-up. Just your strategy.

📹 Blew 16 accounts – then made it back to payouts

Almost a year ago, Maxim withdrew $3,000 and set himself a new goal – to work his way up to a $100K account.

📉 But then came a brutal losing streak: he lost more than 10 accounts in a row. Mistakes piled up, emotions took over, and his trading spiraled into a prolonged tilt.
"It felt like a fight for survival. Over eight months, I burned through around 15 accounts. Some were gone in just three days."

And that could have been the end of the story...

💪 But Maxim refused to give up. He rebuilt his strategy, tightened his risk management, and gradually found his way back to consistent trading.

💵 The result – a new $10K account and a fresh run of payouts: $842, $697, $366, and $411.

In the new interview, Maxim explains how he broke out of a long trading tilt, changed his approach to risk, and figured out what actually works for him.

🍿 Watch the interview on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

🫡 You don’t need a $100K account to get your first payout

When you see traders withdrawing $20,000+, it’s easy to assume there’s no point in prop trading unless you have a massive account.

But over the past week, Upscale traders received 30 payouts totaling $49,416 – and most of them were much more achievable than they might seem:
• 22 payouts came from accounts ranging from $1K to $10K
• 25 payouts were under $1,000
• 17 out of 30 were repeat payouts


BTC and ETH were the most commonly traded assets on smaller accounts. Traders also reached payouts trading SOL, gold, and Nasdaq.

💡 In other words, you don’t need to start with the biggest account or wait for the perfect trade to get your first real result.
• Start with a $5K or $10K account.
• Complete the challenge at your own pace.
• Trade the markets you already know.
• Withdraw your first few hundred dollars.


🥇 Every payout becomes part of Upscale’s story. Traders share their results, earn a place in our Payout hall and their transactions remain available on our website.

Another 30 payouts were added this week. The next story could start with your account.

🏆 The fourth Upscale Fast Tournament is over!

Over the weekend, around 400 traders received $10K tournament accounts and had two days to fight for a place at the top.

The competition was incredibly close: just $5.22 separated third and fourth place.

🥇 goood +$5,700.85
🥈 kwf1 +$4,356.9
🥉 TTTTTTT +$4,082.42
4. Anjei_Team +$4,077.2
5. Jason +$3,252.7

Winners, send your account ID (Profile → Copy) and preferred account type — crypto or RWA — to storm_support_bot in Telegram to claim your prizes.

What was up for grabs?

🔥 3,000 USDT
🔥 $400K+ in prop accounts
🔥 50 prize-winning spots
🔥 a winner’s trophy

BTC/USDT was traditionally the most popular pair. But KAITO/USDT generated the highest profit: 13 traders made more than +$18K combined on it.

Access was granted to participants in our recent promotion: purchasing a $10K+ account automatically secured a place in the private tournament.

Missed out? The free Upscale Demo Tournament runs until the end of September. Trade, climb the leaderboard, and compete for real prizes without spending a cent! 👇

📹 7 payouts from ONE account (and while we were preparing this post, the eighth one came in)

"Let’s catch up again in 2–3 months, when I already have 14 payouts!" 😎

When Ernest joined us for his first interview, he had received just two payouts. Only two and a half months later, he is back – and now that number has grown to eight.

Ernest once left his business behind and went all in on trading. Today, his results clearly show that a systematic long-term approach beats random account flips every time.

The numbers speak for themselves:

🔥 85% profitable days
🔥 64% winning trades
🔥 +36% account growth

Right now, Ernest has already passed the second phase of a $200,000 challenge and is preparing to scale even further.

“Why risk millions of your own money? If you have a working strategy and discipline, prop trading gives you leverage and the opportunity to scale without using significant personal capital.”

📺 What helps Ernest maintain these results?

In the new interview, he shares his trading journal, explains how he works with stop-losses, and talks about how to navigate difficult market periods without abandoning your strategy.

🍿 Watch the interview on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

💰 One trader pulled $96,000 across 6 payouts

We've rounded up the latest funded trader wins from Upscale – from first payouts to a $16K streak.

1️⃣ 477 from a Basic account

Entry – $107. First payout alone – 4.5x the investment.

2️⃣ $240 from an RWA account

Entry – $79. 3x even on a small payout.

3️⃣ $3,990 – 4th payout in a row from one account

Entry – $197. Total withdrawn so far: $3,925 – 19.9x the initial investment. One challenge, paying out again and again.

🏆 Now the main event – two $16,000 payouts

The trader took two Basic $200K accounts under the 2+1 promo and got two bonus $100K accounts on top.

Each one has already delivered 3 payouts in a row:

🔥 6 payouts of $16,000
🚀 $96,000 in profit withdrawn
💰 $22,053 – total capital invested

One good payout is luck. Three in a row from every account is a system.

💡 That's how prop trading works: pass the challenge once → get a funded account → withdraw profit again and again.

Upscale already has 11,000+ funded traders. And more join every day.

🔥 Want in? Trade in Upscale

🤝 Your biggest questions about the promo answered

500 accounts, discounts of up to 30%, and entry to a private tournament — here’s everything you need to know.

1️⃣ How do I get the discount?

Enter the promo code on the account purchase page, and the discount will apply instantly:

⚡️ Turbo: 30% off with code TURBO
🚀 Accelerated: 25% off with code ACCEL
💼 Basic: 20% off with code BASIC

Each promo code can be used to purchase one new account. Need more? Message us in Telegram: storm_support_bot.

2️⃣ What is the private tournament?

It’s an exclusive tournament for promo participants only.

Buy any $10K+ account and you’ll automatically receive a $10K tournament account with access to all markets.

• Trading runs for two days: Saturday, 00:01 through Sunday, 23:59 UTC
• Traders with the highest profit win
• There are 50 prize-winning places
• Prizes include 3,000 USDT, accounts up to $100K, and a winner’s trophy

Prizes:

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

3️⃣ Can I buy different account types?

Yes. Enter all three promo codes, and the corresponding discount will apply to each account type.

4️⃣ What happens when all 500 accounts are gone?

The promo ends immediately — even if the 24 hours aren’t over yet.

🗓 Available until July 16 at 08:00 UTC, or while promo accounts last

👉 Enter your promo code, claim your discount, and secure your tournament spot

🔥 500 accounts at our biggest discounts

Upscale now has more than 11,000 Funded traders, and discounts are one of the most requested things from our community.

We heard you: for 24 hours only, we’re releasing 500 accounts at the best prices available on Upscale.

⚡️ Turbo: 30% off with code TURBO
🚀 Accelerated: 25% off with code ACCEL
💼 Basic: 20% off with code BASIC

Once all 500 accounts are gone, the offer ends — even if the 24 hours aren’t up yet.

🏆 A $10K+ account = entry to a private tournament

Buy any account worth $10K or more and you’ll automatically secure a spot in the private tournament.

Two days of trading — Saturday and Sunday — with 50 prize-winning places, 3,000 USDT, and accounts worth up to $100K up for grabs.

🗓 Offer ends July 16 at 8:00 AM UTC

👉 Enter your promo code, claim your discount, and secure your tournament spot

📹 He was gifted a prop account — then cashed out from it multiple times!

Meet Vladimir. After shutting down his business during COVID, he moved into crypto and has now been trading for nearly four years.

His story is anything but typical: he received a free Upscale account for sharing market analysis in a community chat — and went on to withdraw over $450, just in time for his wife’s birthday.

🧠 Vladimir has also traded with some of the biggest prop firms, including FTMO, Funding Pips, Audacity Capital, and The5ers.

But eventually, he left them behind:

“Traditional prop firms became too difficult to deal with. Changing countries caused KYC issues, established firms started tightening their rules, reducing payouts, and closing accounts. What won me over with Upscale was the simplicity: fewer rules, no KYC, and the ability to trade directly in Telegram.”

😎 The interview also features an incredibly detailed 14-minute technical breakdown. Vladimir explains the market mechanics so thoroughly that Igor, our host, barely had to ask a question.

🍿 Watch the full interview on YouTube: @UpscaleTrade