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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

📹 +$863 payout, life in Vietnam, and the two-loss rule

Meet Nick. He’s been trading since 2018.

He used to chase every last dollar the market had to offer. Now, his goal is different: never let one bad day cost him the entire account.

That’s why his rules are strict:

😫 Two losses – and the terminal stays closed until the next day

📉 Risk per trade – around 0.5–1%

💰 Risk-to-reward ratio – 1:3

📈 Profits are taken in stages, then the stop is moved to breakeven

Today, Nick withdrew $863 from Upscale

In the new video, he breaks down his system using real trades and his AI report: where he enters, when he takes profit, and the exact moment discipline starts giving way to tilt.

He also gives an unfiltered comparison of Upscale and other prop firms – from news trading and transparent rules to having the trading terminal right inside Telegram.

🍿 Watch the full interview on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

P.S. No stop loss, no happy ending. No like on the video? Even worse 🫶

📈 Six traders on NZD made more than sixteen traders on BTC

The biggest takeaway from yesterday’s closed tournament: market selection matters almost as much as entry accuracy.

🔥 5 hours of trading, 3,000 USDT, and $500K in accounts were up for grabs. Here’s where traders captured the biggest moves:

• BTC/USD – the most popular market of the tournament, chosen by 16 traders.

• But NZD/USD outperformed it in profits – just 6 traders closed positions with a combined +$3.4K.

• XAU/USD – the most active instrument: 60 closed positions and +$2.2K in total profit.

• The entire top 3 by profit came from RWA markets: NZD, XAU, and EUR.

Crypto isn’t the only place to find volatility. Traders who know how to use the full market landscape have more opportunities to win.

🫡 Finished in the top 50? Send your account ID in Telegram to storm_support_bot and choose your preferred account type (crypto or RWA) to claim your prize.

☁️ Missed the tournament or didn’t make the top 50? The free Upscale demo tournament runs until the end of September. Open a demo account, climb the leaderboard, and compete for real rewards without buying a challenge.

🤖 Review your trades with AI

AI is everywhere today: generating content, writing setups, building trading bots, and even trying to trade on its own.

In one recent experiment, six AI models were given $10K each to trade. Spoiler – some of them actually made money.

As AI becomes a serious tool for modern traders, the real question is: how do you get actual value from it?

🫡 So we built an AI assistant into Upscale

Our AI doesn’t trade for you. It reviews your trading with you.

The AI report analyzes your full trading history, identifies the 3 key patterns that had the biggest impact on your results, and gives you a specific action plan for each one.

Not a vague “be more disciplined,” but the actual facts: where your risk changes, which decisions keep repeating, and what you can improve.

🥇 Upscale traders have already generated 547 AI reports

You can get yours for free after your account is closed – the analysis takes less than a minute.

AI doesn’t make traders irrelevant. It makes strong traders even stronger.

🤝 Have you tried the AI report yet?

🤟 300 Upscale accounts at –20%

You’ve been asking for discounts for a while – we heard you. So today, no complicated mechanics: just –20% off any new Upscale account.

⚡️ Promo code: FLASH

Enter it when choosing your account – the discount will be applied automatically.

• Choose Basic, Accelerated, or Turbo in any account size
• Bought accounts before? No problem – you can still get a new one at a discount
• No time limits for completing your account

Important: the promo code applies to 1 new account. Want more? Contact support.

🗓 Don’t miss it: the offer is valid until 00:00 UTC. But if all 300 accounts are claimed earlier, that’s it.

📹 Tempting. Fast. Demanding.

That’s Turbo.

No challenge stages or profit targets – buy an account and start trading. But there’s no magic "easy money" button here – Turbo plays by its own rules.

⚡️ In the new video, we break down:

• The infamous 30% consistency rule
• How trailing drawdown works
• What it takes to get your first payout
• And how to tame Turbo before it tames you

🍿 Enjoy the video on our YouTube: UpscaleTrade

🏆 5 hours of trading + 3,000 USDT in prizes

On September 2, we're holding the fastest tournament in Upscale history.

No need to trade for a week or a month - everyone gets 5 hours to post the best P&L and make the top 50.

🔥 What's up for grabs:

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

💼 Tournament conditions:

• Trading on September 2, 12:00-17:00 UTC
• $10K account (all markets)
• Trailing drawdown - 10%
• Leverage - from 2x on crypto to 30x on forex pairs

🤝 And the best part: a $10K+ account comes with two bonuses - a 100% refund with your first withdrawal + automatic tournament entry.

No extra payment or registration required.

Answering your questions about the promo

Here's everything you need to know about the 100% account fee refund and Upscale's private sprint tournament 👇

1️⃣ How do I get 100% of my account fee back?

Buy any new accounts during the promo and trade at your own pace.

With your first profit withdrawal, Upscale will refund the full cost of each eligible account together with your payout.

2️⃣ What if I withdraw less than the account costs?

The size of your first withdrawal doesn't affect the refund - even if it's just 1, you'll still get 100% of the account fee back.

3️⃣ Which accounts are eligible?

Any new Upscale accounts purchased during the promo.

And if you get an account starting from $10K, you'll also receive a spot in the private sprint tournament.

4️⃣ What's the sprint tournament?

It's a private tournament exclusively for promo participants with $10K+ accounts.

• Date & time: September 2, 12:00-17:00 UTC
• Trailing drawdown: 10%
• Leverage: from 2x for crypto to 30x for forex pairs

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

5️⃣ Do I need to register for the tournament separately?

No. If you buy an account starting from $10K during the promo, your tournament spot is added automatically.

6️⃣ Can I pay for an account by card?

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

💰 Get the full account fee back | 24 hours only

Upscale has paid traders a total of over $2.5 million.

To celebrate, we're bringing back a legendary promo - a chance to get any account for free.

💰 100% account fee refund

Buy any new account before the promo ends and get a full refund with your first profit withdrawal.

Yes, even if you withdraw just $1 - you'll get the full account fee back.

🏆 $10K+ account = tournament entry

Buy any account starting from $10K and you'll get access to a private tournament on September 2.

Just 5 hours of trading, with 3K USDT + accounts up to $100K up for grabs.

🗓 24 hours only: Aug 27, 1:00 PM - Aug 28, 1:00 PM UTC

📹 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.

🍿 Watch the interview on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

💰 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 1st on the leaderboard 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.

👉 Join the demo tournament and show us what your strategy can do

📊 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.

👉 You can download the full guide from our Telegram: upscale_news_en

📊 'Give me BTC at $60K and I will definitely buy'

October 2025: BTC is at $120K, you are waiting for $75-80K.
August 2026: BTC has dropped to $58-66K, but buying feels scary.
Then a sharp surge to $78K – and you are regretting the missed entry all over again.

😞 A vicious cycle:
• At the peak, you want it cheaper.
• When it gets cheap, it feels suspicious.
• When the fear fades, the price is back at the top.

👨‍💻 The issue is not the market, but changing your trading plan with every new candle. If the price reaches your desired level, you need to enter based on a pre-calculated risk, not emotions.

📖 In the Upscale challenge, you learn to conquer FOMO and stick to discipline. The plan is built before the trade; during the trade, it is only executed.

🚀 The main advantage of prop trading: even if you make a mistake, you only risk the cost of the challenge rather than your entire capital, while gaining access to large volumes with limited personal risk.

🫡 How Is Funding Calculated at Upscale?

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

On the regular market, funding is a settlement between traders: depending on market conditions, either longs or shorts pay it.

💼 At Upscale, the mechanics are different

You trade with capital provided by the platform. While your position is open, Upscale manages the associated risk and covers costs such as market funding, borrowing, spreads, liquidity, and hedging.

🧮 How is the amount calculated?

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

$1,000 margin × 5x leverage = $5,000 position. Funding is calculated on the full $5,000.

✍️ Why did the amount change?

Previously, leverage was not accounted for in certain cases: a position with 5x leverage could have its funding calculated as if it were 1x.

We’ve fixed the calculation. Funding is now always calculated based on the full position size. As a result, the average daily funding amount increased by approximately 2.5x.

👀 How can you avoid funding charges?

Funding is charged at fixed intervals: every 8 hours for crypto and once a day for other assets.

💡 How is the funding rate determined?

Upscale sets the rate based on the cost of capital and the expenses associated with hedging market risk. The guideline is 3–20% per year, depending on the market and current conditions.

📈 Trading on Upscale just got easier

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

🔔 Waiting for a specific price and constantly checking the chart?
Set an alert for a target price or % move – when the market reaches that level, we’ll notify you in the Upscale and on Telegram.

📌 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.

⚡️ Need to adjust an order fast?
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.

🤝 Today, your feedback from the chat became part of the product.

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

🎬 How to Make $100 a Day Without Losing It All

Take on the trading quest with Igor in our new video!

Six rounds. Every decision can change the entire outcome.

Can you make it through the chaos, keep your account alive, and build toward a steady $100 a day?

🍿 Watch the video on YouTube: UpscaleTrade

-17% OFF + 3 CASES OF CORONA FOR TRADER’S DAY 📈

Did you know that today is actually Trader’s Day in some countries?

And the funniest part? The date itself has a pretty cursed backstory. Yeah, fun story. Google it.

Anyway. Since losing money is already part of the job, we figured we’d give some back – with discounts, accounts, and 3 cases of Corona.

1️⃣ Grab 17% OFF any account with code TRADY🔥

The code is live for 24 hours only, and quantities are limited. Just enter it when choosing your account.
🍺🍺🍺

2️⃣ And of course, we’re running a giveaway!

Drop a photo of you + your trading setup + the Upscale terminal in the contest chat.

The more creative, the better 😎

On Friday, we’ll pick 3 winners. Each one gets a $25K account + a case of Corona.

Let’s celebrate Trader’s Day properly.

Happy Trader’s Day, legends 📈🍺

18+ / legal drinking age only

🥇 $100K Giveaway Results Celebrating the Launch of 24/7 Stocks and Oil Trading

Thank you to everyone who has already tried the new instruments and shared their feedback! We read through your responses and randomly selected 5 winners from all participants:

🥇 $50K Basic – Whereiamlol
🥈 $25K Basic – Killua_z0ldyk
🥉 $10K Basic – salaamsui
🏅 $10K Basic – Moses_Dan (Discord)
🏅 $5K Basic – crystalclar

🫶 To claim your prize, message in Telegram storm_support_bot with your Upscale account ID and let us know which account type you prefer (Crypto or RWA).

Didn't win this time? Don't worry – more giveaways and activities are coming.

We also put together all the key updates in a quick 1-minute overview – if you missed it, check the previous post. And we've saved all your ideas for new markets and instruments – they'll help us decide what comes to Upscale next!

🌀 The Biggest Upscale Updates in 1 Minute

Oil, 24/7 stock trading, a return to the Funded Stage, and more – meet Upscale’s biggest update yet. Now even more convenient, faster, and more stable!

🔎 Read all the details in the article on our website.

👉 Then head over to Upscale and try the new features for yourself.

🍿 Also you can watch the video announcement on YouTube: UpscaleTrade