Official Rules & Terms

1. Organiser

The Market Edge Gold Cup (the "Cup") is run by [Market Edge legal company name], [registered address] ("Market Edge", "we"). Questions about the Cup go to [contact email] or @marketedgeteam on Telegram.

Market Edge is an introducing broker. Trading accounts are provided by [broker legal entity, e.g. Star Trader] (the "Broker"). The Cup is organised and paid for by Market Edge. [Confirm with the Broker: "The Broker is not the organiser of this competition" or the wording their compliance team requires.]

2. Who can enter

• You must be 18 or over and legally allowed to trade leveraged products where you live.
• You must hold a live trading account with the Broker that is registered under the Market Edge partner code.
• Residents of these countries can't enter: [excluded countries, from the Broker].
• One person, one entry. You can't enter more than one account at the same time, and you can't enter on behalf of someone else.
• Market Edge staff and their immediate families can't win prizes.

3. How to enter

• The Cup runs from to (00:00 to 23:59 UTC).
• Register on this website with a public nickname, your email and your trading account number, or ask the Market Edge team to register you.
• Your account needs a balance of at least $. Your entry becomes active once we've verified your account from the Broker's records.
• Entering is free. The deposit stays in your own trading account and remains your money.

4. How you're ranked

Traders are ranked by deposit-adjusted return, so topping up your account never counts as profit:

Return % = (current equity − starting equity − deposits since start + withdrawals since start) ÷ (starting equity + deposits since start) × 100

• Your starting equity is your account equity at the first reading on or after the Cup's start date (or your Fresh Start date).
• Qualified traders (section 5) always rank above traders who haven't qualified yet.
• If two traders have exactly the same return, the trader who entered first ranks higher.
• Figures come from the Broker's records. The leaderboard updates automatically through the month. The final standings are the figures at 23:59 UTC on , once verified (section 10).

5. Qualifying for prizes

To win a prize you must, during the Cup, trade at least lots on gold and trade on at least different days. Only trades on [eligible instruments, e.g. XAUUSD] count toward the lot minimum.

6. Fresh Start

• You can restart up to times per Cup by depositing a new $ into the same or another eligible account.
• Your current entry keeps ranking until the new deposit is confirmed. Then it closes, and your new entry starts at 0%.
• Only your latest entry ranks. Closed entries stay in your private history.

7. Prizes

Prizes are in US dollars. One person can win a place prize, the Badge Bounty and the Lucky Draw in the same Cup. Prizes can't be transferred or swapped.

8. Badge Bounty

Badges are earned automatically from your trading. The first trader to unlock every badge during the Cup wins the Badge Bounty. Badges are recorded as soon as they're earned. If two traders complete them at the same time, the higher-ranked trader wins. The Bounty can be won once per Cup.

9. Lucky Draw

After the Cup ends, one winner is picked at random from all qualified traders (section 5), whatever their rank. Every qualified trader has an equal chance. The draw is made once by computer random selection and recorded. [Confirm with the Broker or a lawyer that a random draw is permitted in your jurisdictions, and whether a free entry route is required.]

10. Winners and payment

• Results are checked against the Broker's records within 5 business days after the Cup ends. The verified results are final.
• We'll contact winners by email or Telegram. If a winner doesn't reply within [14] days, we may award the prize to the next eligible trader.
• Prizes are paid within [10] business days of verification by [payment method, e.g. credit to the winner's trading account or bank transfer]. We may ask for ID first.
• Winners are responsible for any tax due on their prize.
• With your agreement, we may announce winners by nickname on this website and in our Telegram channel.

11. Fair play

We may disqualify an entry, and withhold or recover a prize, if we reasonably believe it involved:

• multiple or shared accounts, or trading coordinated between accounts, including opposite positions held in different accounts (hedging);
• exploiting pricing errors, latency or platform faults;
• false information, or entering for someone else;
• any breach of the Broker's terms, or anything that breaks the spirit of a fair competition.

12. Your data

How we use your information is explained in our Privacy Policy. On the public leaderboard you appear only by your nickname, with your account number masked.

13. Risk warning

Trading leveraged products such as CFDs carries a high risk of losing money quickly. Only trade money you can afford to lose. The Cup is not investment advice, and you shouldn't change how you trade or take on more risk because of it. Past results on the leaderboard don't indicate future results.

14. Changes and cancellation

We may change these rules, the prizes or the dates, or cancel the Cup, if circumstances outside our reasonable control require it, or if a regulator or the Broker asks us to. We'll post any change on this page and tell entrants on Telegram. Changes won't reduce a prize already won.

15. General

By entering, you agree to these rules. These rules are governed by the laws of [country]. If any part is found to be invalid, the rest still applies.