Sustainable Scaling Program

How the Sustainable Scaling Program increases your account balance after every fifth payout

What is the Sustainable Scaling Program?

The Sustainable Scaling Program increases the balance of your Simulated Funded Account after every fifth payout.

The scaling increment is a percentage of your initial balance, determined by your Rank. Scaling happens automatically in the same account once your fifth payout is approved.

Payouts also decay your Max Loss allowance. From your second payout onwards, each payout decays the allowance by the amount withdrawn from the account. Each time the account scales, the allowance is fully restored based on the larger starting balance.

ℹ️ The Sustainable Scaling Program replaced Smart Scaling and Simple Scaling on 19 August 2026.

⚠️ Instant Accounts do not scale.

How it works

Scaling runs in cycles of five payouts:

  1. Your first payout from this account does not decay your Max Loss allowance.

  2. From your second payout, each payout decays the allowance by the amount withdrawn from the account.

  3. Regardless of the amount withdrawn, the allowance never falls below 1% of the starting balance.

  4. Every fifth payout scales the account. The increment is added, and the allowance is recalculated at its original percentage on the new starting balance.

  5. The next cycle begins from the new starting balance and runs the same way.

Scaling requirement

Five payouts are required to scale. Payout size is not a factor. The requirement is the same in every mode.

ℹ️ Payouts received before the program started count towards your scaling target.

Scaling increment

The increment is a percentage of your initial balance. This is the original balance of the account, set by the challenge you purchased. If you buy a $10,000 account, every increment is based on $10,000.

The percentage is determined by your Rank in the Experience Program.

Rank

Scaling Increment

0

10%

1

10%

2

20%

3

30%

4

40%

5

50%

6

50%

Your starting balance is the simulated capital PipFarm has allocated to the account. It increases by the increment each time the account scales.

Scaling limit

An account can scale eight times. The maximum allocation is $300,000 and the largest increment is 50%, so the highest balance reachable through scaling is $1,500,000.

Max Loss decay

Your Max Loss limit is a percentage of your starting balance. Decay reduces that allowance.

From your second payout onwards, each payout decays the Max Loss allowance by the amount withdrawn from the account. If $300 is withdrawn, the allowance falls by $300.

The fifth payout resets the cycle. The account scales, and the allowance is recalculated at its original percentage on the new starting balance.

On a $10,000 account with a 10% Max Loss, the allowance starts at $1,000. After a $300 withdrawal, it is $700, which is 7% of the balance.

The allowance does not fall below 1% of the starting balance, regardless of the amount withdrawn from the account. On a $10,000 starting balance, the floor is $100.

Example

A $10,000 account with a 10% Max Loss, held at Rank 2. Rank 2 gives a 20% increment.

Event

Withdrawn from account

Max Loss allowance

Account funded

—

$1,000 (10%)

Payout 1 (first from account)

$300

$1,000, unchanged

Payout 2

$300

$700

Payout 3

$300

$400

Payout 4

$300

$100, the floor

Payout 5

Any amount

Triggers the scale

Scale

—

$2,000 added. Balance $12,000, allowance $1,200 (10%)

The 20% increment is calculated on the initial $10,000, so $2,000 is added. The allowance is recalculated as 10% of the new $12,000 balance, which is $1,200.

In the next cycle, payouts 6 to 9 each decay the allowance and payout 10 scales the account again. The exemption applied only to payout 1.

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