Challenges
Two ladders run while you trade. One resets, one never does.
Challenges reward one thing. Volume actually traded, measured in lots. Not deposits. Not wins. Not a streak. Trading, on markets you chose to trade.
The two ladders
What counts as a lot
One challenge lot is $1,000 of position value, not one unit of the coin. Majors count in full. Mid-caps and small-caps count half, because a lot of a thin market is not the same trade as a lot of Bitcoin and paying the same for both would reward the wrong behaviour. The ticket shows what your order is worth in challenge lots before you send it.
What Trading Credit is
Credit on this desk that supports margin alongside your own balance. It is shown separately from your balance in the header and in every statement, because it is not your money and we are not going to blur the two. It is not withdrawable.
Why the calendar matters
Periods run on real calendar boundaries, leap years included, rather than fixed durations counted from the day you signed up. A countdown built on fixed durations drifts. Come back after a week away and you would find the week had ended somewhere other than the end of the week.
Trading Credit is credit, not cash. A volume target is never a reason to place a trade you would not otherwise place, and trading more to reach one is how a target costs you more than it pays.