Frequently asked

No. Every event runs on a simulated account with virtual capital priced off the live market. Daily Battles are free; paid formats charge an entry fee and nothing else. You never deposit trading capital and you cannot lose more than the entry fee.

No. BattleTrader is not a broker and does not hold client funds. You trade the tournament platform, not a live account.

An email address, a mobile number and a device with a browser. Your first free Daily Battle opens the next trading day after you confirm your email.

The platform runs in the browser on desktop and mobile. There is nothing to install.

Daily Battles. They are free, run every weekday, and build the points that unlock everything else. Most traders play Dailies for a few weeks before buying into a Mini Tournament.

No. You can hold one active event at a time. Enter the next one once your current window closes.

Paid events run with the field they have. Prize pools are fixed and published in advance, so they do not shrink with a smaller field.

Yes, until the window opens. Once an event has started the fee is not refundable.

No. Automated trading, copy trading and signal services are prohibited in every format and void your result. Trade logs for ranked finishes are audited.

It stops tick-scalping and latency exploitation, which turn the contest into a test of connection speed rather than judgement. Trades closed faster still affect your balance; they just do not count toward your trade requirement.

Equity, including floating profit and loss. A 30% drop from your starting equity at any moment disables the account for that event, even if the position would have recovered.

Yes. There is no news restriction. Spreads widen and slippage increases during high-impact releases, as they do in live trading, and BattleTrader is not liable for either.

Your positions stay open and the clock keeps running. Reconnect and carry on. A disconnection does not pause or restart an event, so set stop losses.

Every ranked finish earns points, scaled by format and finishing position. Points accumulate across the season and set your tier. The full table is on the Rankings page.

They reset at the start of each new season, and tiers reset with them. Your best season and career totals stay on your profile permanently.

No points. An unranked finish means you missed the minimum trade count or breached the drawdown limit, and the result does not count whatever your balance was.

Two routes: finish in the top 50 of any Circuit Championship, or end the season in the Elite tier. Either earns a seat in the 100-trader field.

Within 14 days of the event closing, once the top finishers' trade logs are audited and identity verification is complete.

By bank transfer or USDT, to an account in the winner's own name. Third-party payouts are not made.

Tax is the winner's responsibility, and is deducted at source where the law of the payout jurisdiction requires it. Take your own tax advice.

A live trading account funded with BattleTrader capital, traded on an 80% profit share. Its terms are set out in the Funded Account Agreement, which the winner accepts before the account is opened.

Once per season, and not while an event is running. Past results keep the handle they were set under.

Most suspensions follow a duplicate account, an automated-trading flag or a failed verification. Write to support and the audit on your account will be explained.

Write to support from your registered email. Any unpaid prize is settled first; entry fees for events already started are not refunded.