Terms and Conditions

Stampede (stampedeprop.com, the “Website”) is a simulated proprietary trading evaluation service operated by Stampede Ltd, a company registered in Cyprus under number HE 494949, with its registered office at Nikis 1, Anthoupoli, 2350 Nicosia, Cyprus(“Stampede”, “we”, “us”, “our”). These Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) govern your use of the Website and your purchase and use of our simulated trading evaluations (each an “Evaluation” or “Challenge”) and the simulated funded accounts that follow them (each a “Funded Account”).

When you place an order for an Evaluation and we confirm it, a contract is formed between you and us consisting of: these Terms, the Client Agreement, the Refund Policy, and the trading rules published on the Website for the plan you purchased (together, the “Agreement”). The published trading rules, including profit targets, loss limits, and payout rules, are incorporated into the Agreement by reference. If these Terms conflict with the Client Agreement on a matter concerning an Evaluation, a Funded Account, or a payout, the Client Agreement prevails.

By creating an account, placing an order, or using the Website, you confirm that you have read and accept the Agreement. If you do not accept it, do not use the service.

Every trading account we provide, including every Funded Account, is a simulated account. You trade a fictitious balance against live market data supplied to reproduce real market conditions. No order you place through Stampede is executed on a live financial market, and nothing you do on our platform constitutes trading in real financial instruments.

You acknowledge that:

• the balance shown in any Stampede account is simulated, represents no money belonging to you or held for you, and has no monetary value;
• Stampede is not a brokerage, an exchange, an investment firm, or an asset manager, and is not licensed or regulated as any of those things in any jurisdiction;
• we do not accept deposits, and nothing you pay us is ever a deposit: every payment to us is a fee for an evaluation service;
• we never hold trading capital for you, and you never acquire any claim on any real trading account through your simulated activity;
• nothing on the Website or in our communications is investment advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any financial instrument; and
• performance rewards paid on Funded Accounts are real money, paid under the published mechanical rules described in the Client Agreement.

Because the service is not a regulated financial service, you will not receive the regulatory protections that apply to brokerage customers, such as client money segregation or investor compensation schemes. We say this plainly because we would rather you understand it before you pay a fee than discover it afterwards.

You may use the service only if:

• you are a natural person at least 18 years of age (or older where your local law requires a higher age of majority);
• you are acting for yourself, not for or on behalf of any other person or entity;
• you are not resident in, located in, or a national of a jurisdiction we do not serve, and you are not subject to sanctions administered by the United Nations, the United States (OFAC), the European Union, or the United Kingdom; and
• you have not previously been banned from the service for breach of the Agreement.

Residents of the United States are welcome. Stampede is built to serve US traders, and the simulated nature of the service is a core part of how it does so lawfully.

Before your first payout, and at any other point where we reasonably require it, you must complete identity verification (“KYC”): proof of identity, proof of address, and any screening required by applicable anti money laundering and sanctions law. If KYC fails or is refused, we may suspend payouts and, where required by law, terminate the Agreement. The Refund Policy sets out what happens to your fee if KYC is rejected.

We do not serve residents or nationals of, or persons located in: Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe, or the Crimea, Donetsk, or Luhansk regions of Ukraine. We may amend this list where sanctions or risk require; amendments never reach back into an Evaluation you already bought while eligible. All fifty US states and the District of Columbia are served.

You may register one user account, and every Evaluation and Funded Account you purchase or hold must live under it. Registering or controlling additional user accounts, directly or through another person, is a breach of the Agreement and grounds for termination of all of them.

Your credentials are personal. You must not share them, and you are responsible for everything done with them until you tell us they have been compromised. Tell us immediately if you suspect unauthorised access. Information you give us must be complete, accurate, and kept up to date.

The fee for each Evaluation depends on the plan and simulated account size you select at checkout and is displayed before you pay. The fee is a one time payment for the evaluation service. It is never a deposit, it is not held in trust, and it does not buy you any trading balance, real or simulated, beyond access to the Evaluation itself.

An order becomes binding when you submit it and payment is received. We then issue your platform credentials through your dashboard. Displayed prices include any sales tax we are required to collect; you remain responsible for your own tax affairs (see the Client Agreement on taxes).

One optional add-on exists at checkout: the 90/10 split from your first payout, priced at 20% of the challenge fee. It is described in the Client Agreement. We sell no other upgrades. Payout speed and the published drawdown style are never sold as add-ons.

We accept the payment methods shown at checkout. The live list of methods, and any descriptor that appears on your statement, are shown at checkout before you pay. Fees are charged in US dollars; where a payment method involves currency conversion, your provider may apply its own rate and charges.

Each Evaluation is offered in the plans published on the Website (currently Classic, Sprint, and Sprint Turbo), each with its own profit target or targets, maximum daily loss, maximum total loss, and minimum trading day requirements. Those parameters are printed on the pricing page and in your dashboard, and they are the whole test: the rules are mechanical, and there are no hidden criteria.

• You pass a step of an Evaluation by reaching its profit target without breaching any loss limit and meeting any minimum trading day requirement.
• You fail an Evaluation when a loss limit is breached. Breach is measured by the platform automatically against the published definitions.
• Passing the final step of an Evaluation entitles you to a Funded Account on the terms of the Client Agreement, subject to KYC and to your compliance with the Agreement during the Evaluation.
• Failing an Evaluation ends it. The fee is not refunded on failure, because the evaluation service has been delivered. You may purchase a new Evaluation at any time.

We may review your Evaluation trading for prohibited practices (Section 8) before issuing a Funded Account. Trades that breach Section 8 do not count toward a profit target.

A Funded Account is a simulated account with a fictitious balance, carrying the same loss rules as the Evaluation that produced it, with no profit target and no consistency rules. Your simulated performance on it generates real performance rewards under the published payout rules.

The full terms of Funded Accounts and payouts, including the profit split, payout timing, and minimums, are set out in the Client Agreement. Two principles from it bear repeating here: payout rules are mechanical and not subject to discretionary denial, and we never degrade execution against any account.

The service evaluates whether your trading would hold up on a live market. The standard behind every rule in this section is replicability: simulated trading whose profitability depends on the simulation itself, rather than on a strategy that would work with real execution, is prohibited. You must not:

• exploit errors or artifacts of the platform, including pricing errors, frozen or delayed quotes, or data feed latency, or trade on any feed that lags the live market;
• exploit simulated fills that a live market would not give you, including strategies built on guaranteed limit order fills through price gaps, or straddling scheduled news releases purely to harvest gap fills that real liquidity would not provide at that price;
• hedge. Hedging is not permitted on any plan: you must not hold simultaneous opposing positions in the same or a substantially correlated instrument within an account, across Stampede accounts (yours or anyone else's), or between Stampede and external accounts. Coordinated trading with any other person or account where the combined effect is to pass evaluations on one side of a coin flip is prohibited for the same reason;
• submit trades that are not your own: third party signal services, trade copiers replicating another person's trades, purchased pass services, and account management arrangements of any kind are all prohibited, whether you are the buyer or the seller;
• let any other person trade your account, or trade any other person's account;
• use high frequency techniques, tick scalping, or any automation whose purpose is to overwhelm, manipulate, or out-race the platform rather than to express a trading strategy (a personal expert advisor executing your own strategy at human-replicable speed is permitted);
• open positions grossly inconsistent with your own trading pattern in order to game a specific rule, such as one massive all-or-nothing position bearing no relation to your other trading; or
• do anything else that exploits the difference between simulation and live markets rather than demonstrating skill that would survive contact with the real thing.

For our part, we commit that:

• we never degrade execution against winning traders: no artificial slippage, no delay injection, no widened spreads targeted at an account because it is profitable, in any environment, ever;
• every rule that can end your Evaluation or Funded Account, or affect a payout, is published before you pay; and
• payout rules are mechanical and honored as written, with no discretionary denial.

We also disclose a conflict of interest rather than hide it: the evaluation is deliberately rigorous, most participants do not pass, and Stampede earns a fee each time a trader fails and purchases another Evaluation. A conflict of interest therefore exists between Stampede and every evaluation trader. You should purchase a Challenge only if you are confident in your trading and accept the risk of not qualifying. Our business is scouting traders worth backing with the firm’s real capital, and simulation is what lets us run that search at scale; but the conflict exists, and you are entitled to see it in writing.

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, including yours. This is the firm managing its own book. It is internal to the firm, it changes nothing about your Evaluation, your Funded Account, your rules, or your payouts, and it requires nothing from you.

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. You do not own any trading account or position, you hold no beneficial or proprietary interest in the firm’s accounts, assets, or trades, and you acquire no right to any profit the firm makes. You have no control over, and no entitlement to know, whether or how the firm acts on any given day. Your only entitlement remains the performance reward you earn on your simulated account under the Client Agreement, paid at the published split whether or not the firm hedges or trades alongside your performance.

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. In any such arrangement LHFX’s client 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 a real market.

The Website, the Stampede name and marks, and all content we publish are our property or licensed to us. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use them for your personal, non-commercial use of the service. You acquire no other rights.

When using the Website and the service you must not:

• copy, scrape, resell, or redistribute the Website, the platform, or our content, or use automated tools to harvest data from them;
• reverse engineer, probe, or interfere with the platform, or attempt to access accounts or systems that are not yours;
• circumvent geographic or technical restrictions;
• use the service for any unlawful purpose, including fraud or money laundering; or
• misrepresent your relationship with Stampede, including holding yourself out as trading real money through us.

Screenshots of your own results, including payout proofs, are yours to share. We built the service to be screenshotted.

The Website and the service are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the platform will be uninterrupted, error free, or available at any particular time, and scheduled or emergency maintenance may limit access.

Simulated results are not real results. Performance on a simulated account, including a Funded Account, does not guarantee and may not resemble performance trading real money on a live market. Trading real financial instruments involves substantial risk of loss. Nothing in the service prepares, qualifies, or licenses you to manage money for others.

Market data shown on the platform is supplied by third parties and may contain errors, gaps, or delays. Where a data error affects a simulated trade, we may adjust or void the affected trade to restore the result that accurate data would have produced, in either direction, and we will tell you when we do.

To the fullest extent permitted by law: we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of opportunity, arising from or in connection with the Agreement or the service; and our total aggregate liability arising from or in connection with the Agreement is limited to the total fees you paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in the Agreement excludes or limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. If you are a consumer, you keep every right your local consumer law gives you that cannot be waived by contract, and nothing in the Agreement reduces those rights.

Earned performance rewards are not damages. Our obligation to pay a properly earned payout under the published rules is a debt we honor, and this section is not a tool for avoiding it.

You will indemnify and hold us, our officers, directors, employees, and agents harmless from any third party claim, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of the Agreement, your violation of applicable law, or your misuse of the service, except to the extent caused by our own breach, negligence, or wilful misconduct.

Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy. The fee is a one-time charge for the evaluation service. On the Classic plan it is returned in full with your first funded payout; on all other plans it is not returned when you win, and what you earn from a Funded Account is your profit split. The only other refund route is the pre-trade cancellation window, set out there.

Once you place your first simulated trade, the evaluation service is being delivered and the fee is no longer refundable except as the Refund Policy or non-waivable consumer law provides. If you believe a charge is wrong, contact us first: we resolve billing disputes directly and quickly. Initiating a chargeback on a fee that was validly charged is a breach of the Agreement and grounds for suspension of your accounts while it is investigated.

Each Evaluation runs until it is passed or failed. You may close your user account at any time by contacting support; fees already incurred for services already delivered are not refunded on voluntary closure.

We may suspend or terminate your accounts and the Agreement if:

• you breach the Agreement, including the prohibited practices in Section 8 or the eligibility requirements in Section 3;
• you provide false, misleading, or incomplete information, including during KYC;
• we are required to do so by law, sanctions, a court order, or a competent authority; or
• you initiate an unjustified chargeback as described in Section 15.

Where we terminate for breach, simulated balances are void and unpaid rewards attributable to the breach are forfeit. Rewards properly earned before, and unconnected to, the breach are paid under the published rules. Sections 10 through 14 and Section 18 survive termination.

We may amend these Terms. If we do, we will publish the amended version on the Website and notify registered users by email or dashboard notice at least seven (7) days before it takes effect, except where a change is required by law or only benefits you, in which case it may take effect sooner. Changes do not apply retroactively: an Evaluation or Funded Account runs under the rules published when you purchased it, unless a change is required by law or you accept the new rules.

If you do not accept an amendment, you may close your account before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after the effective date is acceptance.

The Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising from it are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.

If you are a consumer, this Section does not deprive you of protections or forum rights granted by the mandatory law of the place where you live to the extent that law does not permit them to be waived.

Legal notices to us go to legal@stampedeprop.com. General support goes to support@stampedeprop.com. A notice is effective when received on a business day in Cyprus, or the next business day otherwise.