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Prop trading challenges blew up because they let regular people trade with funded accounts. The 2026 Leveraged Cup takes the formula and adds a public leaderboard, daily cash prizes, and a live finale where strangers watch every trade you make.
The competition is organised by Get Leveraged, a financial services platform focused on managing portfolios and investment strategies. According to their website, they have processed over $100 billion in trading volume and offer traders a profit split reaching 80%.
The cup lasts fifteen days. Sprint Accounts come in three evaluation sizes: $10,000s, fifty thousand dollars, or one hundred thousand dollars. But here is the twist that changes everything: you compete on percentage gains, not dollar amounts.
90 Minute Live Finale with Cameras Rolling and No Pause Button
A clock ticks down from ninety minutes. Every trade you enter streams live for anyone to watch. It's the kind of competition that's built on transparency, something to look out for before signing up for a prop trading challenge. There's no hiding behind tomorrow's daily reset.
The top four unique traders after fifteen days receive invitations to a live streamed Final Four trading session lasting exactly ninety minutes. All four finalists trade with identical account sizes during this event, so nobody can complain about unfair starting capital differences.
The winner receives a travel package valued at twenty thousand dollars: two tickets to the World Football Final in New York City, round trip economy flights for two people, and four star hotel accommodations. You cannot transfer these prizes to someone else, and you cannot swap them for cash unless platform management explicitly authorises that exchange.
Daily drawdown limits end more prop trading runs than any other single factor. One bad day with a 5% loss finishes your run immediately. The live finale compresses that entire risk into a short ninety minute window, testing whether you can keep your head straight when strangers are watching your every click.
Firms like Get Leveraged, Apex Trader Funding, and E8 Markets have experimented with time-bound challenges before, but a public finale with streaming remains unusual. Streaming means every order fill and every latency tick stays visible to viewers, so no disputes can surface later. That kind of transparency either steadies your nerves or makes you fall apart entirely.
Midnight UTC Resets the Daily Leaderboard for a $200 Prize
Every night at midnight Coordinated Universal Time, $200 cash goes to whoever climbed the highest by percentage during that 24 hour period. Not the biggest earner. The one who grew the most relative to their starting account size.
A $10,000 account that jumps ten percent beats a $100,000 account that crawls up only 1.5%. The bigger account made fifteen hundred bucks in nominal profit, sure. The smaller one made just a thousand. But percentage returns win. That is the only rule that matters.
- Daily winners receive $200 deposited straight into their Leveraged wallet with no withdrawal games.
- Two traders hit the exact same percentage to two decimal places? Then total dollar gain breaks the tie, meaning a whale wins only when the percentages match perfectly.
- You can buy as many Sprint Accounts as you want, but the system only looks at your single best performing run.
Locking every rule for the full fifteen days matters because mid-competition changes would destroy trust. You cannot buy your way to the top either, since percentage returns ignore account size. Get Leveraged, Topstep, and FundedNext have all moved toward this kind of transparent evaluation setup.
No Social Media Post Means You Cannot Win Any Prize Money
To stay eligible for daily $200 prizes or the Final Four invitation, you must follow @GetLeveraged on X or Instagram and share a screenshot of your Sprint Account dashboard or leaderboard position using the hashtag #LeveragedCUP. Two reasons explain this requirement. First, it proves your claimed rank is real rather than some photoshopped fabrication. Second, it floods social feeds with trading results, which naturally drags in new participants who see their friends competing.
After eyeing a June 2026 IPO launch, SpaceX began trading on public markets at $160.83 per share. Elon Musk's net worth passed $1 trillion as the dollar also strengthened. For traders in this competition, that kind of volatility is familiar territory.
Public leaderboards display your rank, avatar, country flag, and percentage gain. No trader names are hidden from view. Search that hashtag, and you see exactly what everyone else is claiming in real time. Many prop trading platforms now use social rules like this to expand their user bases while adding a layer of public accountability. Get Leveraged, FTMO, and MyFundedFX all do it. Factor that requirement into your decision before entering. You're trading your time and your public visibility right alongside your capital. Some traders may not like that kind of exposure but it's important here to win.
The Leveraged Cup experiments with percentage rankings to stop large accounts from dominating through sheer size. It uses live finals to test genuine nerve under pressure. It adds social verification to replace closed door judging with open transparency. For traders sick of opaque evaluation models that change rules midway, this is a cleaner path forward. Whether the format catches on depends on how many people actually want an audience watching them trade.
