Upscale

🤝 Upscale is back online

Dear traders, the platform is fully operational again. Great to have you back!

We’ve successfully completed the migration to a new infrastructure with enhanced protection, so we can confidently withstand attacks like this going forward.

We’ll be honest: migrating critical protocol services in such a short time was a real challenge for our team. But we made it – and most importantly, your accounts were protected:

1️⃣ All open positions were automatically closed at market prices on April 23 at 14:36 (UTC), and all orders were canceled.
2️⃣ If your PnL for the trading day was positive at the moment of closure – it was fully preserved.
3️⃣ If your balance dropped below the start-of-day level after closure – we restored it at our expense.

We understand the downtime impacted your trading, and we’re not going to pretend nothing happened. So here’s what we did:

📈 Every trader has been credited with +3 trading days and +3 profitable days in their current phase – as if each of those days was successfully completed in profit.

🛡 And to make your return to trading as smooth as possible – we've activated free daily drawdown protection for all traders who purchased an account and are currently in Phase 1 or Phase 2 of their challenge.

We believe real loyalty shows in actions, not words. This is one of them.

Important: the transition to the next phase might not have triggered automatically. To fix this, simply open and close any position.

🤩 We’ve got something exciting coming later this week – it’s going to be loud.

Welcome back 💪

Your Upscale team

🎂 1 year with Upscale

Friends, exactly one year ago we opened our trading terminal and launched prop trading the way we believed it should be – fair, flexible, and technology-driven.

Over this year, together with you, we’ve gone from an idea to a product that brings traders together from all over the world. And honestly, we’re proud of what we’ve built:

• 200K+ traders
• $1M+ in payouts
• 15K+ community members
• 700+ partners
• 70+ videos on YouTube
• 7K+ support requests resolved
• 15+ community activities

🎁 And what’s a celebration without a few surprises? Keep an eye on the channel this week.

Sending you love. More to come. Yours, Upscale 🫶

🔥 Smart Monday: 90% profit split + drawdown protection — free

Been thinking about trying prop trading? Today’s your moment.

🪧 Today only (until 23:59 UTC)

Get an Accelerated (1-phase) or Turbo (instant funded) account and we’ll add two perks for free:

1️⃣ 90% profit split
2️⃣ Daily drawdown protection (Accelerated accounts only)

Bonuses will be credited by the end of Tuesday.

Take the account while the edge is on your side. Tomorrow it’s gone 🫡

🏆 Trading Ideas Contest Results

Guys, you’ve done it again – the number of submissions blew us away, so we couldn’t stick to the usual prize list and decided to expand it.

You shared your ideas on Telegram and Discord, and we carefully went through every single one. Here’s what we want to say:

It’s genuinely exciting to see our community filled with such sharp minds – people who don’t just see price on a chart, but can analyze, spot patterns, and build solid hypotheses.

Meet the winners :point_down:

🥇 1st place – $50K challenge: ow_077 (Telegram)
🥈 2nd place – $25K challenge: Ro (Discord)
🥉 3rd place – $10K challenge: to3see12 (Telegram)
🏅 4th place – $5K challenges: majestychrist, dexus_1, TartarbI, DDroNN (Telegram)

And some bonus rewards from the team – because great work deserves recognition :point_down:
🏅 $1K challenges:
Hewrites (Discord), Khan :money_with_wings: (Discord), Id0wu12 (Telegram), ktotorodnoi (Telegram)

👉 If you have won, then write to us in a telegram: @storm_support_bot!

Congrats to all the winners. More to come 🫶

📹 The airdrop hunter who accidentally became a funded trader

Alexey doesn’t even call himself a trader. His main income comes from airdrops and a Telegram channel. But when the airdrop hype slowed down and his capital got locked in other assets, he needed a new way to make money.

🤝 The solution: trade with someone else’s capital.

His first challenge got wiped during the October crash. The second one? Passed — with 3 payouts totaling $400+.

“Upscale just lets me use an idea I don’t have the money for. That’s it.”

How someone who doesn’t trade “professionally” passes a challenge and gets paid — we break it down in our new interview.

🍿 Watch on our YouTube: @UpscaleTrade
or
⚡️ Read the full story in our Telegram @upscale_news_en

🥇  Upscale Hall of Fame

Friends, not long ago we launched a dedicated topic in our chat in Telegram @upscale_chats for payouts – and it's the most powerful place in the entire Upscale community!

Traders share real certificates, talk about their achievements, and give others the strength to go all the way.

💪  Want your result to be among the best?

Drop your certificates in the "Trading" thread or send them to @storm_support_bot – and we'll forward them there.

Upscale has already paid out over $1.1M – and behind every payout stands a person with a unique journey to profit.

Tomorrow, that person could be you!

🌖 Happy Cosmonautics Day!

61 years ago, Yuri Gagarin said "Let's go" and changed the way humanity thinks about what's possible. Nobody knew how it would end. They just believed, prepared, and flew into the unknown.

In 2026, history is repeating itself. Humans are heading back to the Moon for the first time in 56 years. And every time something like this happens, we're reminded of one thing: limits only exist in our heads.

That's exactly how we think at Upscale.

Every trader who joins us is someone who decided to stop accepting limitations as facts. No capital? Get a prop account. Still learning? Follow the risk rules already built for you. Want more? Grow as your account grows.

We're building a platform with the most advanced technology out there, but we never forget that technology exists for real, living people.

And if any of you happens to be an actual cosmonaut, reach out. We'll give you a $100,000 account. No joke.

Thank you for being part of this ride with us.

Onward and upward.
Upscale Team 🚀

📹 Trader from the Philippines: 3 blown accounts and one that made it all back

Maru’s story will feel familiar to many. He started with play-to-earn, then moved into futures. The goal was simple - make some money for his wedding.

But the trader’s path rarely starts easy: three Upscale accounts in a row hit the drawdown limit. He takes a pause and decides to change his approach.

Maru buys a $25K account, reaches funded in just 9 days, and lands two payouts in a row - over $3,000 in total.

"When I was trading my own money, I could never actually withdraw anything. The moment I got my payout, I realized - this is real. This is actual money."

What exactly changed and why Maru’s new approach worked - we break it down in the new interview.

🍿 Watch the interview on our YouTube: @UpscaleTrade
or
✨ Read the text version in Telegram channel: @upscale_news_en

📈 Share your trading ideas and win up to $100,000

Hey traders, how’s the market?

Today we’re bringing back our favorite trading idea contest in our Telegram-chat @upscale_chats 👇

1️⃣ Post your trading idea for assets traded on Upscale in the Trading topic
2️⃣ Add the hashtag #idea to your post
3️⃣ Deadline: April 14 (inclusive)

One post = one idea. You can submit multiple ideas, but only your best one will be considered.

💡 Requirements

Your trading idea must include:
• a chart with key levels
• direction and entry point
• clear reasoning behind the idea
• SL and TP
• price targets

Explain your logic clearly and in detail.

🤑 Prize pool

• $50K challenge (crypto)
• $25K challenge (crypto)
• $10K challenge (crypto)
• plus 3 × $5K challenges (crypto)

🧨 How winners are selected

• depth and clarity of the analysis
• reactions and discussion from the community confirming the idea’s usefulness
• actual execution of the scenario (screenshots with positive P&L are a strong plus)

Join our chat rooms. We will consider all submissions made on Telegram and Discord.

💎 Upscale is a Sapphire Sponsor of Blockchain Forum 2026

On April 14–15 we're getting together to talk about where the market is heading, what strategies are actually working right now — and giving away funded trading accounts right at the most unmissable booth at the venue.

✨ Grabbed a 10% discount for you — promo code UPSCALE at checkout.

See you next week!

📹 Out of 1,000 traders, only 70 are still active after 5 years

That’s what data from the University of California shows, based on a 15-year study of 500K traders.

80% of traders quit within the first two years. Not because they lack talent, but because they expect quick results, see others posting green PnL screenshots, and don’t see the losses behind them.

A telling fact: when Taiwan launched its national lottery, day trading volume dropped by 25%, because most people were treating trading like a lottery.

😎 But there’s another side to it. Those who stay.

What sets apart that 7% — we break it down in our new video, backed by real research.

👉 Watch on YouTube channel: @UpscaleTrade

🍀 Trading superstitions: genuine edge or self-deception?

Some traders wear the same "lucky" hoodie on big trade days. Some won't open positions on Tuesdays — after getting stopped out there twice in a row. Some just don't trade on Friday the 13th.

Sounds harmless. But sometimes it costs hundreds of millions.

In 1992, Barings Bank trader Nick Leeson tried to hide a small loss by moving trades to account 88888 — because he believed it was lucky. What followed: a series of increasingly reckless decisions, £827M in losses, and a 200-year-old bank that simply ceased to exist.

🤞 Why do we believe this?

Superstitions spike where there's high uncertainty and low control. Markets are the perfect breeding ground. You don't control the price. You don't control the news. You don't control the outcome of a trade. So the brain does the only thing it can — creates an illusion of control.

Rituals, "signs", lucky numbers. Just a way to ease anxiety and keep going.

😳 Do lucky charms actually work?

Psychologist Lysann Damisch gave students identical golf balls — but told half of them their ball was lucky. That group performed significantly better.

The mechanic: confidence reduces stress 👉 behaviour sharpens 👉 results improve. The charm doesn't affect the market. It affects your head.

💰 When it starts costing you money

Companies with "lucky" numbers — 6, 8, 9 — were consistently overvalued at Chinese IPOs. Investors paid a premium for a symbol. The result: returns roughly 10.8% below market per year.

The Journal of Finance found the same around Friday the 13th: markets drop not because the date is unlucky — but because enough people believe it is. Belief literally becomes price.

A ritual can help you trade calmer — and that's fine. The problem starts when it replaces strategy. At that point you're no longer managing yourself — you're trying to manage the market.

And that, as the data shows, costs money.

Do you use lucky charms or rituals when you trade? Drop it in our Telegram-chat: @upscale_chats

📖  Documentation you won’t be embarrassed to open

You know what most prop firms have in common?

You buy a challenge, open the docs… and get 10 lines of FAQ and “contact support.”

❓  How is drawdown calculated? When can you withdraw? What happens to your position on liquidation?

We think traders shouldn’t have to guess.

Our GitBook covers the full mechanics of the platform: from margin calculations and PnL formulas to order types and withdrawal limits. With tables, real examples, and in two languages.

🤝  Clear rules aren’t a bonus. It’s basic respect for traders.

👉  Read more on our Telegram channel: upscale_news_en

Heard of Dow Theory? It's been around for 130 years  👨‍🦳

Charles Dow came up with it in the 1890s. Back then there was no algo trading, no crypto, not even proper exchanges as we know them today.

👀  Do you think this "ancient thing" still works?

It absolutely does. Here's why: his six principles don't describe the market – they describe the psychology of the people trading it. And people don't change.

When you're in a trade, it's crucial to understand what phase the market is in – and that's exactly the framework Dow Theory gives you.

While others chase the next indicator or some secret strategy – those who understand the fundamentals just trade consistently. On any timeframe.

We broke down all 6 principles on the Bitcoin chart – no fluff 💦, just what's actually applicable in prop trading today.

Read more in our Telegram channel: upscale_news_en

OVER $1,000,000 PAID OUT!

Hey Upscalers! It’s April 1st, and while everyone is busy pulling pranks, we have some news that sounds unbelievable but is 100% true.

Since we launched our trading terminal on April 21, 2025, we’ve hit a massive milestone: total payouts to our funded traders have surpassed $1,000,000! 💸

If you’re skeptical (it is April Fool's, after all), just head over to upscale.trade — the numbers speak for themselves.

Upscale was built to be a place where thousands of people can earn under the best possible conditions. We’ve come a long way together — from our very first demo tournaments to contests with all kinds of prizes (we remember it all: from double payouts to that legendary case of beer 🍻). Every bit of your feedback has fueled our drive to keep pushing forward.

Today, Upscale is more than just a platform; it’s the top product in Web3, built hand-in-hand with you. We’re committed to fair challenges, constant evolution, and a relentless focus on our community’s profit.

🫶 Thank you for your trust. You are the heart of this journey. We’re just getting warmed up, so buckle up!

Your Upscale Team

📹  Tired of blowing your challenges?

“I want capital now, why do I need two phases?”

“5% profit? Easy, I’ll pass it in a day”
 
That’s exactly how beginners lose accounts.

They forget one thing: prop trading isn’t a race. It’s math and discipline.

😮  In the new video, we break down why the Basic two-phase challenge is the best account to start with:

1. Key account mechanics most traders ignore
2. Psychological traps that lead to losses
3. A step-by-step plan to turn a Basic account into FUNDED

👉  Watch on YouTube @UpscaleTrade

🔥 P.S. Watch till the end. We hid something nice inside for those ready to start right now 💸

🤟  PnL in orders, on-chart trade history, and more updates

Over the past couple of months, we’ve been working hard to improve the app’s performance.

Today, we’ve rolled out an update to make trading smoother and more informative 👇

🔼 Trades on the chart. Your trade history is now displayed directly on the candles: entries, averaging, closes, and liquidations. We’ve also added PnL to order markers, just like you asked.

📈 Clearer trading history. We’ve updated three sections at once: order history, position history, and active orders. You can now see expected PnL for SL / TP / TS.

📮  Email linking. Worried about having access only via Telegram? You can now link your Gmail: top right → account → settings → link email.

⭐️  New pairs. Added STX, QNT and MORPHO from the CoinMarketCap top 100.

⚡️  What else? TradingView now automatically adjusts to your timezone, and the app runs faster and more stable overall.

🤝  How do you like the update? As always, we’re waiting for your feedback!

💰Get your account fee back — today only

Friends, our community is growing fast, and total payouts are approaching $1M.

To celebrate, we’re bringing back our legendary promo — get any account for free.

💰100% challenge fee refund

All accounts purchased on March 26 are eligible for a full refund with your first payout.

Yes, even if you withdraw just $1 — you’ll get the full challenge fee back.

Promo date: March 26, 00:00–23:59 UTC

👉Choose your account → withdraw profit → get your refund

No limits on the number of promo accounts.

🎬The biggest myths about prop trading

• “Prop firms are a scam”
• “The rules are designed to make you fail”
• “Without 5 years of experience, don’t even try”

These thoughts don’t come out of nowhere – the market is full of short-lived firms, so the skepticism is justified.

But while some stay stuck in doubt, others pass challenges, get funded, and withdraw profits.

Today we break down 5 common myths about prop trading and show what actually matters when choosing a firm.

Watch new video on YouTube https://youtu.be/jfOAW637GM0

🎬From gambling to consistency: the story of a funded trader

Our hero's story will feel familiar to almost every trader. He made 120x on a memecoin and lost it all in a single moment. Traded Binance futures and wiped out the price of a brand-new BMW.

Money came and went faster than he could figure out how to keep it.

After going through that cycle again and again, he realized something simple: a consistent strategy matters more than any lucky pump.

What helped him change his mindset and earn $5,600 on a $100K Upscale account - in our new interview.

🍿Watch our new video on YouTube-channel @UpscaleTrade