Every Question, Answered.

TSTrader is a skill-based trading events platform. You go head-to-head with other traders in 1v1 Trading Duels and Multi Trader Cups.

Every trader in an event gets an identical MetaTrader 5 account, the same clock and the same rules. When time runs out, the trader with the higher Equity wins the reward. Only your trading decides the result.

No. TSTrader runs trading events between people. In particular:

• We never place your trades in a real market, and we never take the other side of your trades.
• We do not fund traders, run evaluations or share profits.
• We do not give investment advice.

You win by trading better than the other traders in your event, not by beating a firm.

Both, in different places:

• Real money: your wallet, the entry fees you pay and the rewards you win. All are in US dollars.
• Simulated: the trading accounts you use in events. They run on our MT5 server with live market prices, but no real market orders are placed.

This means the most you can lose in an event is what you paid to enter it.

You can open an account if you:

• are at least 18 years old (or older, if the age of adulthood is higher where you live);
• live in a country where taking part is lawful, and not in a restricted country;
• are not on any sanctions list; and
• use the account only for yourself.

It is your responsibility to check that taking part is lawful where you live.

We do not accept residents or citizens of, or people located in:

• the United States and its territories;
• Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Cuba and Myanmar;
• Russia and Belarus;
• the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions; and
• any country on the FATF list of high-risk countries subject to a call for action.

Using a VPN or proxy to hide your location is not allowed and leads to account closure.

1. 1Click Get Started.
2. 2Enter your first and last name, username, email, phone number, country and a password.
3. 3Type the 6-digit code we send to your email.

It takes less than 2 minutes. Choose your username carefully: it is your public trading name and cannot be changed later.

1. 1Add money to your wallet (Wallet → Deposit).
2. 2Pick an event: open the 1v1 Trading Duel Centre and choose an account size in the Spawn Centre, or join a Multi Trader Cup.
3. 3Pay when an opponent is found (Duel) or when you join (Cup).
4. 4Log in to MetaTrader 5 with the details we give you.
5. 5Trade. When time runs out, the higher Equity wins.

No. A free account can:

• play Standard 1v1 Trading Duels at every account size, from $5K to $1M;
• accept Pro Duels that other traders create; and
• join any Multi Trader Cup.

Pro is for traders who want to create their own Pro Duels and Cups. See the Pro Duels section for what it includes.

No. Your username is your public trading identity, so it stays the same for good. It must not copy another person, include offensive or misleading words, or use a brand you do not own. We may change a username that breaks these rules.

Go to Settings → Profile Details. You have three choices:

• Upload a photo (JPG or PNG). We keep a small square copy.
• Pick a trading avatar: bull, bear, Bitcoin, Ethereum, dollar, euro, pound, yen, gold bars or candlestick chart.
• Use initials: the first letter of your username. This is the default, and choosing it deletes any uploaded photo.

Your picture is shown in Duels, Cups and rankings, with your country flag as a small badge.

Events are public, so other users can see your username, picture, country flag, results, rankings, statistics and certificates. While you play, spectators can also see your live Equity, P&L and open positions.

We never show your real name, email address, phone number, identity documents or wallet balance.

• Use a strong password that you do not use anywhere else.
• Turn on two-factor authentication (Settings → 2FA) with an authenticator app.
• Never share your login details. TSTrader will never ask for your password.

If you think someone has accessed your account, email support@tstrader.io at once.

No. Each person may hold one account only, and you may not trade on another person's account. We close duplicate accounts, and rewards won through them may be forfeited.

Email support@tstrader.io from your registered email address. You cannot close your account while you are in an active event. Your available balance is paid out to you after any identity check we need.

Deposits are in cryptocurrency, through our payment partner Confirmo. Open Wallet → Deposit, choose the amount (from $10) and pay to the address shown.

• Send only the coin and network shown, to the exact address, within the time shown. Funds sent wrongly may be lost.
• Your deposit is converted to US dollars when it is confirmed, then credited to your wallet.
• Send only from a wallet you own. Network fees are paid by you.

Open Wallet → Withdraw once your identity is verified (KYC).

• Withdrawals are paid in cryptocurrency to a wallet address you own. The smallest withdrawal is $10.
• Our team reviews every withdrawal. We aim to pay approved withdrawals within 5 minutes.
• Network fees may be taken from the amount you receive.
• Money held for an event you have entered cannot be withdrawn until that event ends.
• You can cancel a withdrawal until our team sends it (Wallet → History, open the withdrawal). The money returns to your wallet at once.

We verify your identity:

• before your first withdrawal;
• when your total deposits reach $10,000; and
• at other times if the law or a security check requires it.

You may be asked for a photo ID, a proof of address from the last 3 months, a live photo check and information about where your funds come from.

Each event shows its entry fee, which all goes into the reward. TSTrader's platform charge for running the event is added when you pay, and the payment screen shows the full total before you confirm.

Standard Duels (entry fee + platform charge = you pay):

• $5K: $50 + $10 = $60
• $10K: $100 + $18 = $118
• $25K: $250 + $37.50 = $287.50
• $50K: $500 + $60 = $560
• $100K: $1,000 + $100 = $1,100
• $250K: $2,500 + $200 = $2,700
• $500K: $5,000 + $350 = $5,350
• $1M: $10,000 + $600 = $10,600

Pro Duels and Multi Trader Cups: 10% of the entry fee. A $100 entry costs $110.

The platform charge is not refunded, except when an event is called off before it starts or fails because of a fault on our side.

Automatically. A Duel reward reaches your wallet as soon as the result is confirmed. In a Multi Trader Cup, each reward is paid as soon as the stage that earns it ends. You can use your rewards for new events or withdraw them.

• No opponent found: nothing was charged.
• Pairing ends before both pay (cancelled or time ran out): everything you paid comes back, platform charge included.
• Tie, or both agree to cancel before any trade: your entry fee comes back; the platform charge is kept.
• Pro Duel withdrawn or not accepted in time: full refund to the creator.
• Multi Trader Cup: full refund if you leave before registration closes, if the Cup is cancelled, or if you joined after the last place was filled.
• A fault on our side spoils an event: entry fee and platform charge come back.

Yes. You can set a daily, weekly or monthly deposit limit, take a cooling-off break from events for 24 hours to 6 weeks, or self-exclude for 6 months or longer. Email support@tstrader.io and we set it up for you. A self-exclusion cannot be ended early.

A smart contract, not TSTrader. In 1v1 Trading Duels:

• You pay your entry in USDC from your own crypto wallet, straight into a smart contract on the blockchain.
• When the Duel ends, the contract pays the reward to the winner, or gives the money back to both traders on a tie or a cancellation. Nobody, including TSTrader, can send it anywhere else. The only part TSTrader receives is the service fee shown when you pay.
• If a result is ever missing, anyone can start the refund 7 days after the latest end time, so money can never get stuck.
• Every payment is public: open it on the blockchain explorer from the Duel page.

You bring the trading. The code handles the money.

Two traders, identical accounts, one clock. Both traders pay the same entry fee, trade at the same time for 4 hours, and the trader with the higher Equity at the end wins both entry fees as the reward.

Example: in a $5K Duel each trader puts in $50, and the winner receives $100.

Open the Spawn Centre, choose an account size and press Start, then Enter Queue. Then:

1. 1Find an opponent: up to 5 minutes. Searching is free.
2. 2Pay the entry: both traders have 3 minutes once paired.
3. 3Log in to MT5: your login appears at once. The Duel starts when both traders confirm, or after 3 minutes.
4. 4Trade: 4 hours.

Every step shows a large countdown, so you always know how long you have.

Eight sizes. Both traders always have the same size.

• $5,000 account: entry $50, reward $100
• $10,000 account: entry $100, reward $200
• $25,000 account: entry $250, reward $500
• $50,000 account: entry $500, reward $1,000
• $100,000 account: entry $1,000, reward $2,000
• $250,000 account: entry $2,500, reward $5,000
• $500,000 account: entry $5,000, reward $10,000
• $1,000,000 account: entry $10,000, reward $20,000

The platform charge is added when you pay.

We pair you with a trader searching for the same account size, as soon as one is there.

• If several traders are waiting, the one whose STR points are closest to yours comes first.
• Pro members are paired first when several traders are waiting.
• You can also pick a trader yourself from the list of open Duels.

Yes. The Open Standard Duels list in the Duel Centre shows traders who are waiting. Press Accept on one to pair with that trader directly, whatever their ranking. You then pay and play as normal.

When time runs out, our server measures each trader's Equity: the balance plus or minus the profit or loss of open positions. The higher Equity wins.

• You do not need a profit. A small loss wins if your opponent's loss is bigger.
• Open positions count at their value at that exact moment.
• The result must also meet the Active Trader Rule (next question).

At some moment during the Duel, your Equity must reach at least 1% above or below your starting balance ($50 on a $5K account). Once you reach it, it counts until the end, even if your Equity comes back closer to the start. Nobody is forced to trade, but:

• If only one trader meets it, that trader wins, whatever the Equity.
• If neither meets it, the Duel is a tie.
• Reaching the drawdown limit always counts as having traded.

This stops a trader from waiting for the opponent to lose and never trading. The Duel page shows both traders' status live.

Standard Duels have a 25% maximum drawdown and no daily limit. If your Equity falls 25% below the starting balance (for example to $3,750 on a $5K account), the Duel ends at once and your opponent wins.

If both traders reach the limit at the same check, the trader with the lower Equity loses.

A Duel is a tie when both traders finish with exactly the same Equity, to the cent, or when neither meets the Active Trader Rule. Each trader gets the entry fee back (the full $50 in a $5K Duel). The platform charge is not refunded.

• Before both traders have paid: yes, press Cancel. Anything you paid comes back in full.
• After both have paid, before any trade: only if both traders agree. Each gets the entry fee back; the platform charge is kept.
• After the first trade: no. The Duel runs to the end.

Yes, as many as your wallet balance covers. You can run one search per account size at a time, and each Duel has its own trading account.

No. The clock runs on our server and is the same for both traders. Only a fault on our side can lead us to extend an event by the time lost.

Yes. The Broadcast tab of the Duel Centre lists live Standard and Pro Duels. Press Spectate to watch both traders' Equity race, their P&L and their trades as they happen.

• Create fully custom Pro Duels and Multi Trader Cups.
• Choose your entry fee, timeline, leverage, drawdown and instruments.
• Share your Duels on X or by link.
• Priority in the Spawn Centre queue.

Pro costs $27 a month or $269 a year, paid from your wallet. New members get a 7-day free trial once. It renews automatically; you can cancel at any time and keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.

Press Create a Duel in the Duel Centre and follow three steps:

1. 1Account & fee: account size ($5K to $1M), entry fee ($10 to $1,000,000), trading timeline (15 minutes to 30 days, or a set start date and time) and how long it stays open for a challenger.
2. 2Trading rules: leverage (1:10 to 1:500), maximum drawdown, an optional daily drawdown, instruments, account type (swap or swap-free) and spread (raw or standard).
3. 3Review & pay: check everything, then pay to publish it.

Choose All instruments, or pick them one by one:

• Forex: 50 pairs: 7 majors, 21 minors and 22 exotics, with Select all.
• Metals: gold, silver, platinum, palladium and gold in euros.
• Indices: US30, NAS100, SPX500, GER40, UK100, FRA40, EU50, JPN225, AUS200 and HK50.
• Crypto: BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, ADA and DOGE, against the US dollar.

Pick at least one. Trades in instruments that are not on the list are refused.

1. 1The creator pays the entry fee plus 10% when publishing. This money backs the Duel.
2. 2The challenger pays the same amount when accepting.
3. 3Both traders get their MT5 login at once and have 3 minutes to log in. The Duel starts when both confirm, or when the 3 minutes end.

With a set start time, the trading accounts open 5 minutes before it and the Duel starts exactly then.

Any trader, free or Pro, can accept a Pro Duel. Only creating one needs Pro.

The creator chooses how long it stays open: 1, 3, 6 or 12 hours, or 1, 2 or 3 days. If nobody accepts in time, it closes and the creator gets everything back, platform charge included.

After you publish, press Share on X or Copy link. You find the same buttons on your Duel page while it waits for a challenger. The link opens your Duel ready to accept, with all its rules shown.

Yes, at any time until someone accepts it. Press Withdraw on your Duel page and the full amount, platform charge included, goes back to your wallet at once.

Up to 32 traders play in five stages:

1. 1Group stage: 8 groups of 4. The top 2 in each group go through.
2. 2Round of 16, 3. Quarter-finals, 4. Semi-finals and 5. Final: 1v1 matches; the higher Equity goes through.

Every stage is played on a fresh account with the Cup's starting balance and the trading rules the creator chose (leverage, drawdown, instruments, account type and spread). The rules are shown on the Cup page before you join.

Pro members create Cups, in two steps:

1. 1Setup: the name, the window (Daily, Weekly or Monthly), the account size ($5K to $1M), the entry fee ($10 to $100,000) and the start date and time, which must be on a trading day (Monday to Friday).
2. 2Trading rules: leverage, maximum drawdown, an optional daily drawdown, the instruments allowed (everything, or a chosen list), the account type and the spread. The rules cannot be changed after the Cup is created.

Anyone can join while registration is open. You pay the entry fee plus a 10% platform charge: a $100 entry costs $110. You are placed in a group at random, and you can leave for a full refund until registration closes.

It depends on the window the creator chose:

• Daily: each stage lasts one trading day.
• Weekly: each stage lasts five trading days.
• Monthly: each stage lasts one calendar month. If a stage would start on a Saturday or Sunday, it starts on the Monday.

Trading days are Monday to Friday. Saturday and Sunday are never counted. For example, a Daily Cup that starts on a Thursday plays its five stages on Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

A full 32-trader Cup has 5 stages. Registration closes 1 hour before the start.

In your own time zone. Choose it in Settings → Time zone; until you do, the time zone of your device is used and a reminder is shown at the top of the client area.

Behind the scenes, every Cup runs on one official clock: UTC. A stage starts and ends at the same moment for every trader, wherever they live, so time zones never give anyone an advantage. Trading days (Monday to Friday) are also counted in UTC.

When you create a Cup, the start time you pick is in your time zone, and the form also shows it in UTC. The Overview page has market clocks for your time, UTC, Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York.

When registration closes, the Cup starts at the largest full stage: 32 (group stage), 16, 8, 4 or 2 traders. Traders who joined after the last place of that size was filled are refunded in full. If fewer than 2 traders joined, the Cup is cancelled and everyone is refunded in full.

The pool is the total of all entry fees. It is shared like this, and each reward is paid as soon as you pass the stage:

• Reaching the Round of 16: 20%, shared by 16 traders
• Reaching the quarter-finals: 15%, shared by 8
• Reaching the semi-finals: 15%, shared by 4
• Reaching the final: 20%, shared by 2
• Champion: 30%

Example: 32 traders × $100 = $3,200. The champion collects $40 + $60 + $120 + $320 + $960 = $1,500.

Traders who meet the Active Trader Rule rank first, then by Equity at the end of the stage. If Equity is exactly equal, the trader who reached the higher maximum Equity during the stage ranks higher; if that is also equal, the trader who joined the Cup first.

The creator sets the drawdown rules, and they are shown on the Cup page before you join:

• Maximum drawdown: if your Equity falls more than this percentage below the starting balance during a stage, your account is stopped.
• Daily drawdown (optional): if set, your account is also stopped if Equity falls more than this percentage below your Equity at the start of the trading day (00:00 UTC).

In a knockout match a stopped trader is out at once and the opponent goes through. In the group stage, you are ranked on your Equity at the moment the account stopped.

The Active Trader Rule applies to every stage: at some moment during the stage, your Equity must reach at least 1% up or down from the starting balance. Once reached, it counts until the end of the stage. In a group, traders who meet it rank above those who do not. In a knockout match, a trader who meets it beats one who does not. Reaching the drawdown limit always counts as having traded.

In a Duel, as soon as both traders have paid: your login, password and server appear in a window, and stay under the Credentials button on the Duel page. In a Cup, you get a new account for every stage, under Credentials on the Cup page.

1. 1Install MetaTrader 5 on your computer or phone.
2. 2Choose Login to Trade Account (on a phone: Manage accounts → +).
3. 3Enter the login, password and server exactly as shown, and log in.
4. 4Back on TSTrader, press Confirm so your opponent knows you are ready.

• Standard Duels: 1:100 leverage, 25% maximum drawdown, no daily limit.
• Multi Trader Cups: the creator's settings (leverage, drawdown, instruments, account type and spread), shown on the Cup page before you join.
• Pro Duels: the creator's settings, shown before anyone accepts.

Prices, spreads and swaps are the same for every trader in the event.

In Standard Duels and Cups, every instrument on our server: 50 forex pairs, 5 metals (including gold and silver), 10 indices and 7 cryptocurrencies. In a Pro Duel, only the instruments the creator chose.

All of them. Scalping, news trading, holding over news or overnight, expert advisers (EAs) and bots are allowed. There are no consistency rules, no minimum trading days and no lot-size rules. Only the event's limits and the fair-play rules apply.

Equity is your balance plus or minus the floating profit or loss of open positions. Our MT5 server records it at the exact moment the event or stage ends, and the server clock is the official time. The stored figure, not what a screen shows, decides the result.

The event continues, even if you cannot connect, so keep a stable connection and set stop losses where needed. If a fault on our side affects an event, we may extend it by the time lost, correct the result, or cancel it and refund the entry fee and platform charge.

• Working with another trader: agreeing results, losing on purpose or sharing account access.
• Holding more than one account, or trading on someone else's account.
• Hedging between accounts in the same event, or opening opposite positions with another trader.
• Exploiting price errors, stale prices, latency or any technical weakness.
• Using a VPN to hide your location, or funds from an illegal source.
• Abusing other traders or our staff.

We monitor every event. If we suspect a breach, we may pause the event, hold rewards and investigate. If a breach is found, we may void the result and award it to the next eligible trader, cancel the event and refund honest traders, take back rewards won through the breach, and suspend or close the accounts involved.

Yes. Results are confirmed automatically from the trading server. If the server cannot return a final figure in time, nobody is paid until our team has checked the figures. We may also correct a result affected by a technical error, a pricing error or a rule breach.

Email support@tstrader.io with your username, the event or transaction, the date and time, and what went wrong. We reply within 2 business days and aim to resolve it within 15 business days.

STR ranks traders by results, not by money.

• Duel: win +10, loss −5 (−8 if you hit the drawdown limit), tie +2.
• Win streak: from your 2nd win in a row, +2 more for each win in the streak, up to +10.
• Upset: +5 more for beating a trader who had more points than you.
• Cup: winning a whole Cup is worth 10 points, shared over its stages (+2 per stage in a 32-trader Cup); being knocked out is −2.

• Bronze: below 50 points
• Silver: from 50 points
• Gold: from 150 points
• Platinum: from 300 points
• Diamond: from 500 points

You are Unranked until you finish your first match. Traders with equal points are ordered by more wins, then fewer matches.

On My Stats you see the global leaderboard, your points history and your results. Every trader's rank, tier and last 5 Duel results are also shown before and during a match.

My Stats in the client area brings together every Duel and Cup you have finished:

• Net result: rewards and refunds minus the entries you paid (with the platform charge), and the return on those entries.
• Earning trend: your running total over 7 days, 30 days, 90 days or 1 year, with each day's result under it.
• Form and streaks: your last 10 results, your current streak and your best winning run.
• Trading performance: trade win rate, profit factor (gross profit ÷ gross loss), average win and loss, risk : reward, average hold time, and your best and worst trade.
• Markets, instruments and trading hours: where and when you trade, in your own time zone, and how you do in the Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York sessions.
• Fair play: how often you met the Active Trader Rule, and how many times you reached a drawdown limit.

The figures come from your event accounts and your wallet. They are for your own review and are not investment advice.

Yes. You receive a certificate every time you win a 1v1 Trading Duel (Standard or Pro) and every time you win a Multi Trader Cup. It appears on the Certificate page as soon as the result is final.

Each certificate shows:

• your username (never your real name), flag and picture
• the event and the account size
• the reward paid to you and the date
• a QR code that anyone can scan to check it

Duel certificates and Cup certificates have different designs. You can download them as an image or a PDF and share them on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp or Telegram.

A certificate recognises an event result on a simulated account. It is not a trading qualification.

Anyone can check a certificate, without an account:

1. 1Scan the QR code with a phone camera. It opens the check page at tstrader.io/v/ followed by the certificate's own number.
2. 2Or go to tstrader.io/verify and type that number.

The check page reads TSTrader's own records and shows whether the certificate is authentic, revoked or not found, with the username, event, reward and date. If these do not match the certificate you were shown, it has been altered.

A certificate can be revoked if a result changes, for example after a fair-play review.

Open your affiliate account from the Affiliate page of your dashboard, choose a payout method and share your link (tstrader.io/?ref=YOURCODE). Anyone who signs up through it within 30 days, on the same browser, is linked to you for good. When their first event counts, you earn a one-time reward of $5 to $20, depending on your tier.

A trader who signed up through your link becomes qualified when their first entry counts: their first 1v1 Trading Duel is settled (a tie counts), or the first Multi Trader Cup they entered starts. Free and Pro members both count. An entry refunded before that point does not count.

• Partner: $5 for each of your first 1,000 qualified referrals.
• Pro: $10 each for qualified referrals 1,001 to 2,000.
• Elite: $20 each from qualified referral 2,001. This is the top tier.

Your tier rises automatically, never goes down, and the program has no end date.

No. Each referral pays you once, when they qualify, however many events they play afterwards. Rewards come from TSTrader's own fees and never reduce any event's reward pool.

At once. As soon as a referral qualifies, the reward appears in your affiliate balance and dashboard.

From $100:

• To your TSTrader wallet: arrives at once.
• To your own crypto wallet (USDT): our finance team reviews the request, then sends it. This needs identity verification (KYC) and a saved withdrawal address. If a request is rejected, the amount returns to your affiliate balance and we tell you why.

No. Referring yourself, accounts you control or accounts opened only to earn rewards is not allowed, and neither is spam or claiming that TSTrader is an investment or guaranteed income. We cancel rewards earned this way and may suspend the affiliate account.

Yes. Your affiliate dashboard shows each trader you referred, when they joined, whether they have qualified, and what you earned from them.