Life Up Trading

LifeUpTrading (Life Up Trading) is a futures prop firm run by LifeUpTrading Inc. in Seoul, which calls itself Korea's first prop trading-style platform. Its model is worded differently from most prop firms: all trading is simulated, and what a passing trader receives is described as a reward for sharing trading data with LifeUp, which it uses for AI trading research, rather than a profit split. Traders buy a one-step Challenge Account on the Basic Plan or the Expert Plan, in sizes of $25,000, $50,000, $100,000 and $150,000, and trade CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX futures on NinjaTrader, Tradovate or TradingView.

Both LifeUpTrading plans set a 6% profit target ($3,000 on a $50,000 account) to be reached within 30 days of purchase, with a paid 30-day extension. The challenge has no consistency rule and no minimum trading days, so it can be passed in one day. The drawdown is an end-of-day trailing drawdown: the liquidation threshold starts $1,000 below the balance on $25,000, $2,000 on $50,000, $3,000 on $100,000 and $4,500 on $150,000, rises with end-of-day profit and locks at the account size plus $100. The Basic Plan adds a daily loss limit ($1,250 on $50,000) and a Reward Account activation fee of $89 to $149 after passing; the Expert Plan has neither. Positions cannot be held overnight, and holding opposite positions in the same instrument, HFT programs, unapproved third-party software and account sharing are prohibited.

On the Reward Account, each payout request needs the profit target ($3,000 on $50,000, $4,500 on $100,000), 7 valid trading days and a highest daily profit under 40% of total profit. Payouts are capped per request, from $700 to $2,700 depending on size and cycle, and the cap rises over the first four payouts before a live account review. The account is frozen during a review of up to two business days, and the terms say rewards are paid in Korean won to a bank account. The test fee is non-refundable once the test starts. Up to 5 Reward Accounts can run at once, and 14 days without a trade fails one. LifeUpTrading restricts 64 countries, including Finland, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam.