How the Scaling Plan works on Simulated Funded Accounts?

At ThinkCapital, we recognize the importance of rewarding consistent trading performance. Our scaling plans for various challenges—Lightning, Dual Step, and Nexus—are designed to offer traders the chance to boost their demo account’s starting balance. This guide provides detailed instructions on how you can grow your demo account and enhance your simulated payouts.
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Scaling is a method intended to gradually increase a trader’s demo account balance by a certain percentage, based on consistent simulated trading success over time.
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Eligibility: To qualify, traders must achieve a profitability of at least 10% over a three-month period, or approximately 3.33% each month.
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Scaling Increase: Each scaling event results in a 20% increase of the initial demo account balance.
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Review Cycle: Reviews are conducted every three months. During this period, traders are required to make three withdrawals.
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Initial Virtual Starting Balance: The starting balance in the demo account before any scaling events.
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Scaling Event: A predefined event where the virtual starting balance is increased by 20% of the original balance.
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New Virtual Starting Balance: The updated balance after the scaling event.

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With the aid of our scaling plan, traders can grow their accounts to a maximum capital of $1 million. Throughout the challenge, traders can handle or be allocated up to $300,000 in capital from all combined challenges. Utilizing the scaling plan, this $300,000 can be expanded to reach an overall maximum capital of $1 million.
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For more details about the maximum overall capital, please refer to this FAQ.