At a glance
On a funded 2-Step or 1-Step account, every three clean payouts in a row earn one scaling step: 25% of the size you originally bought. You receive each step as a new account at the larger size, which replaces your current account; your clean-payout count carries on, so your next step comes after another full run of clean payouts in a row. Ordinary payouts stay on the same account. Every step adds the same fixed amount and never compounds. Purchased and scaled account sizes together are capped at $2M per trader, across all your accounts. Scaling does not change your reward share. A clean payout is completed and paid, with no hard breach, denial, chargeback or open case; a payout that is not clean restarts the count. A hard breach means exceeding your daily or overall loss limit. Not available on Flash or Instant.
Key rule: Scaling is not guaranteed; rewards are discretionary. It depends on clean payouts, and every payout depends on the payout conditions, which apply at every size. See When can I request a payout?.
How a step is earned
Who it applies to. 2-Step and 1-Step funded accounts only. Flash and Instant have no scaling plan.
A clean payout. A payout that is completed and paid, with no hard breach, denial, chargeback or open case. A payout where you requested less than the full eligible amount can still be clean, and so can a valid payout reduced under the news rule.
Counting. Three clean payouts in a row make one step. They are counted across the account you bought and each new account that replaces it at a scaling step. A payout that is not clean restarts the count. Payouts on accounts you bought separately do not count toward this account's steps.
Not held against a clean payout. Profit excluded by the news window and the scheduled close before a weekend or holiday on a funded 1-Step account are not hard breaches, so neither of them stops a payout counting as clean.
What a step changes
Account size. Each step adds 25% of the size you originally bought. Steps never compound: the tenth step adds the same amount as the first. The size is simulated. A larger account is not money paid to you.
A new account. You receive each step as a new account at the larger size, which replaces your current account; your clean-payout count carries on, so your next step comes after another full run of clean payouts in a row. The new account's login details are issued to your Dashboard and/or your registered e-mail address (Terms §9.5). Ordinary payouts between steps stay on the same account.
Fee back. Payouts on the new account also count toward the fourth payout that earns your 2-Step or 1-Step fee back, and the fee is refunded only once. See Getting your 2-Step or 1-Step fee back after your fourth payout.
Not your reward share. Scaling never changes the share. It stays at 80%, or at 100% if you bought the profit split upgrade. See Understanding your reward share (profit split).
The cap. Purchased and scaled sizes are capped at $2M per trader, across all of your accounts. You can hold several accounts as well as scaling one, within the account limits, and every account must be traded by you. See How many accounts can I hold at once?.
Worked examples
Unless an example states otherwise, a 2-Step funded account was bought at $100,000, and every payout on it is clean. This shows the scaling steps only. It is not a forecast of what any account will do.
Clean payouts in a row | Account size from scaling | Reward share |
At the start | $100,000 | 80%, or 100% with the upgrade |
3 | $125,000 | Unchanged |
6 | $150,000 | Unchanged |
9 | $175,000 | Unchanged |
Each step adds $25,000, which is 25% of the original $100,000, not of the size before the step. If the fifth payout were not clean, the count would restart, and the next step would need three more clean payouts in a row after it.
Example: The ordinary case, on a larger account. Take a 2-Step account bought at $200,000. After three clean payouts in a row on it, one step adds 25% of the original $200,000 — which is $50,000 — taking the size from scaling to $250,000. The reward share stays at 80%, or 100% if the upgrade was bought.
Example: The tenth step adds the same amount as the first. On a $100,000 account every step adds $25,000, so after ten steps, which is thirty clean payouts in a row, the size from scaling is $350,000. The $2M cap is a separate limit, counted across all of your accounts.
Example: The one people get wrong — steps do not compound, and the count must be unbroken. On a $100,000 account each step adds 25% of the original $100,000, so three steps give $125,000, then $150,000, then $175,000 — not $125,000, $156,250 and $195,312.50, which is what compounding would give. And the three clean payouts must be in a row: two clean payouts, then one that is not clean, then two more clean leaves the count at two, and a step still needs a third.
If you did not receive a scaling step when you expected
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Next step
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All trading at EverFunded is simulated. The fee you pay is the money at risk. Rewards are discretionary and never guaranteed.