Why we built Stampede
We run a brokerage. LHFX pays real withdrawals in minutes, keeps real liquidity relationships, and answers to the kind of scrutiny that comes with holding other people’s money. One thing it cannot do is serve American traders. For years we watched US traffic arrive, ask to sign up, and get turned away at the door.
Meanwhile prop firms exploded everywhere, and the business grew up wrong. Firms sold “funded accounts” in the marketing and defined “fictitious funds” in the contract. Some throttled winning traders. Some denied payouts with no published rule behind the denial.
Stampede is what happens when a brokerage team takes the lesson seriously and builds a product traders anywhere can buy, Americans included. A prop firm that says “simulated” in the headline. That pays out on broker rails, at broker speed. And that can offer the one thing no standalone prop firm can: a graduation path where the firm puts its own real capital behind traders who prove themselves, described exactly as what it is.
The herd name has a history: our lineage runs through a brand traders remember fondly. The charge is the point: momentum, together, in one direction.
The team behind LHFX · operated by Stampede Ltd, Cyprus
Five promises, in writing
Each of these exists because some firm, somewhere, did the opposite and traders paid for it.
01The account type is stated up front, not in footnotes.
Every page that implies money says it plainly.
02Execution is never degraded against winners.
No artificial slippage, no delay injection, in any environment, ever. A firm that wins when you lose has to prove it does not cheat. Here is the proof: we publish the rule and invite you to test it.
03Payout rules are mechanical and honored.
Published rules, no discretionary denial, no payout committee. Speed is the brand: same-day processing with minutes as the target.
04Fees are fees, never deposits.
You pay for an evaluation service the way you pay for any service. We never hold trading capital, so there is nothing to freeze, ever.
05The firm's real-capital backing is described exactly.
When the firm trades its own capital informed by your performance, we say precisely that. Customers stay on their own account, keep their same published split, and no page will ever imply otherwise.
Who is who
Stampede is a prop trading evaluation service, operated by Stampede Ltd (Cyprus), open to traders worldwide, US included. Challenges run on Match-Trader.
LHFXis a separate brand: a real-money brokerage that does not serve US persons. It does not offer Stampede’s products and Stampede does not offer brokerage. What the two share is a team, payment rails, and a standard for how fast people get paid.