Client Agreement

This Client Agreement is between you and Stampede Ltd, a company registered in Cyprus under number HE 494949, with its registered office at Nikis 1, Anthoupoli, 2350 Nicosia, Cyprus, operating the Stampede service at stampedeprop.com(“Stampede”, “we”, “us”). It governs the commercial heart of the relationship: your purchase of a simulated trading evaluation (an “Evaluation” or “Challenge”), the simulated funded account that follows a pass (a “Funded Account”), performance rewards and payouts, and the Real-Capital Program.

The Terms and Conditions, the Refund Policy, and the trading rules published on the Website for your plan are incorporated into this Client Agreement by reference. On any matter concerning an Evaluation, a Funded Account, or a payout, this Client Agreement prevails over the Terms and Conditions.

This Client Agreement takes effect for you when we confirm your first Evaluation order and continues, as amended from time to time, for every later Evaluation and Funded Account you hold.

Every account we provide under this Client Agreement, including every Funded Account, is a simulated account trading a fictitious balance against live market data. No transaction you enter on any Stampede account is executed on a live financial market. You never trade real money on real markets through Stampede, at any stage, on any account.

The fee you pay for an Evaluation is payment for an evaluation service. It is never a deposit. No simulated balance, simulated profit, or simulated position represents money owed to you; the only money we owe you is a performance reward properly earned under Sections 6 and 7.

You select a plan (currently Classic, Sprint, or Sprint Turbo) and a simulated account size at checkout. The fee, the profit targets, the loss limits, and any minimum trading day requirement are all displayed before you pay and fixed for that Evaluation at purchase. Rule changes we publish later do not reach back into an Evaluation you already bought.

Your Evaluation begins when we issue your platform credentials. It is personal to you: only you may trade it (see Section 10). You may hold multiple Evaluations at once, subject to any aggregate simulated capital cap published on the Website.

The published rules of your plan are the entire test, and they are mechanical:

• You pass a step by reaching its profit target without breaching the maximum daily loss or maximum total loss, and meeting any minimum trading day requirement.
• Loss limits are static, measured from the initial simulated balance as published for your plan. The platform measures breaches automatically.
• A breach of a loss limit ends the Evaluation as a fail. There is no discretionary review that turns a pass into a fail, and no hidden rule that does so either: the only ground for failing a trader who hit the targets is a prohibited practice under Section 10, evidenced from the trading record.
• Passing the final step entitles you to a Funded Account, subject to KYC under Section 9 and your compliance with this Agreement during the Evaluation.

We aim to issue Funded Account credentials promptly after a verified pass; the current target is published on the Website.

The Funded Account is a simulated account with a fictitious balance equal to the size you purchased. It carries:

• the same maximum daily loss and maximum total loss rules as your Evaluation plan;
• no profit target;
• no consistency rules, no winning day requirements, and no payout gates beyond those in Section 7; and
• the same prohibited practices rules as the Evaluation (Section 10).

A breach of a loss limit ends the Funded Account. Rewards properly earned and requested before the breach remain payable under Section 7; simulated profits standing on the account at the moment of breach are extinguished with it. You may earn a new Funded Account at any time by passing a new Evaluation.

Simulated net profit realised on your Funded Account converts to a real performance reward at the published split:

• the standard split is 80/20: 80% of simulated net profit is yours, from your first payout onward; and
• one optional add-on exists at checkout, the 90/10 split, priced at 20% of the challenge fee. It is available at the time of purchase only, never retroactively, and is permanent for the life of the account.

The split applies to simulated profit net of simulated losses since your last payout. A payout resets the high-water point: you are never paid twice on the same simulated profit, and prior payouts are never clawed back because of later simulated losses.

Payout rules are mechanical, published here and on the Website, and not subject to discretionary denial. Payout speed is the product, so the rules are short:

• Cadence: on demand. You request a payout whenever your eligible reward balance meets the minimum.
• First eligibility: after your first profitable funded trade.
• Minimum: $50 per payout request.
• Processing: same day. Payouts are sent in USDC and land in minutes, the target we publish and measure ourselves against.
• Caps: none. Consistency rules: none.

A payout request may be paused only for: incomplete KYC (Section 9), an open prohibited practices review limited to the trades under review (Section 10), or a legal or sanctions obligation that binds us. Each of those is a published rule, not a discretion. When a pause ends, the payout is processed at the front of the queue.

Performance rewards are paid in real money to the payout method registered in your dashboard. You must be the owner of the receiving account or wallet.

Payouts are made in cryptocurrency, USDC by default, to the wallet registered in your dashboard, and land in minutes once processed. Your payout method must be in your own name and is verified once, at registration of the method. A payout that fails or is returned through no fault of ours is re-queued for the next available rail and never forfeited.

Your challenge fee is a one-time charge for the evaluation service. On the Classic plan, the fee is returned in full, added on top of your first payout from the Funded Account earned by that Evaluation. On Sprint, Sprint Turbo, and Instant, the fee is not returned when you pass or when you win; what you earn from a Funded Account is your performance reward under Sections 6 and 7. The only other refund route is the pre-trade cancellation window set out in the Refund Policy.

Before your first payout you must complete identity verification: proof of identity, proof of address, and screening required by anti money laundering and sanctions law. We run KYC once at the funded stage rather than at checkout so that the only people we ask to hand over documents are the ones we are about to pay.

• You must be the person who traded the account. KYC that reveals account sharing or a purchased pass fails, and Section 10 applies.
• If your KYC is rejected on identity or sanctions grounds, payouts will not be made, and the Refund Policy governs what happens to your fee.
• We may re-verify where the law requires it or where account activity reasonably calls identity into question.

The prohibited practices in Section 8 of the Terms and Conditions apply to every Evaluation and Funded Account and are part of this Client Agreement. In summary, you must not: exploit platform errors, stale data, or simulated fills a live market would not give; hedge, within an account or across accounts (simultaneous opposing positions in the same or a substantially correlated instrument are not permitted on any plan); coordinate with other persons or accounts to manufacture passes; trade ideas that are not your own through copiers, signal services, or purchased passes; share accounts or trade anyone else’s; or use automation to overwhelm the platform rather than express a strategy.

Where we find a prohibited practice on the evidence of the trading record, we may void affected trades, fail the Evaluation or terminate the Funded Account, exclude rewards attributable to the affected trades from payout calculations, and ban repeat or coordinated offenders. We will tell you what we found. Exclusions under this section are the application of a published rule and are limited to the trades concerned; they are not a general license to withhold payouts.

We commit, as terms of this Client Agreement, that:

• we never degrade execution against winning traders: no artificial slippage, no delay injection, no targeting of profitable accounts, in any environment;
• simulated execution parameters (spreads, commissions, swap modelling) are the same for winning and losing accounts of the same plan and size; and
• every rule that can end an account or affect a payout is published before you pay.

And we disclose: the Evaluation is deliberately rigorous, most participants do not pass, and there is no guarantee a future attempt will go better. Because Stampede earns a fee each time a trader fails and purchases another Evaluation, a conflict of interest exists between Stampede and every evaluation trader. We would rather print that sentence than be the firm that hides it. The business we are building is the search for traders worth backing with the firm’s real capital; simulation is what lets us run that search at scale without taking a real loss on every trader who is not ready yet.

Separately from the service we provide to you, the firm may hedge or deploy its own capital, at its sole discretion, informed by trading activity on the platform. This is internal firm risk management. It does not change your simulated account, your rules, your split, or your payouts, it creates no separate contract or obligation between you and us, and it requires nothing from you. The points below state its structure and prevail over any marketing description of it.

• Any market-facing transaction is carried out exclusively by the firm, for the firm's own principal account, with the firm's own capital and at the firm's own risk.
• The firm may record trading activity as an internal book entry, or put its own capital to work informed by it. You have no control over, and no entitlement to know, whether or how the firm acts on any given day.
• You do not own any trading account or position, and hold no beneficial or proprietary interest in the firm's accounts, assets, or trades, or in any profit the firm makes.
• Your only entitlement is the performance reward you earn on your simulated account under this Client Agreement, paid at the published split, whether or not the firm hedges or trades alongside your performance. Nothing here creates any debt to you beyond that.

Where the firm trades its own capital, it may route that capital through LHFX, a real money brokerage operated by the same team, to LHFX’s liquidity providers. LHFX’s client in any such arrangement is the firm, never you. LHFX does not serve US persons, and nothing here creates any relationship between you and LHFX, makes you a customer of any brokerage, or constitutes you trading real money on real markets.

You are an independent customer of an evaluation service. To the extent your activity on a Funded Account is treated as the provision of simulated trading data to us, you provide it as an independent contractor. Nothing in this Client Agreement creates an employment relationship, a partnership, an agency, or a joint venture between you and us, and you have no authority to act for us or bind us.

Performance rewards are paid gross unless a law binding on us requires withholding. You are solely responsible for reporting and paying any tax, levy, or social charge that applies to amounts we pay you in your jurisdiction. We provide payment records in your dashboard; we do not provide tax advice.

Each Evaluation runs until passed or failed; each Funded Account runs until a loss limit is breached, the Agreement is terminated, or you close your account. The grounds on which we may suspend or terminate, the survival of accrued payout rights unconnected to a breach, and the limits on both parties’ liability are set out in Sections 13 through 16 of the Terms and Conditions and apply to this Client Agreement as if set out here.

This Client Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, and disputes are resolved by binding individual arbitration with a class action waiver, as set out in Section 18 of the Terms and Conditions.