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# Becoming a Trader

When you pass the Challenge, your account reaches the **Trader** stage and becomes **funded**: you trade with the company's capital and keep a share of the profit.

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After you clear the evaluation, your account moves to the **Trader** stage **straight away**, with no waiting and nothing to apply for. On the **Accounts** page its badge changes to **Trader**.
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## What changes and what stays the same

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### What changes

* You now trade the **company's capital**, not your own.
* You keep **80%** of the profit you make (or **90%** with Profit Split).
* You can request **payouts** of your profit (see [Profit share and payouts](/hashhedge-user-guide/account-and-payouts/profit-payouts.md)).
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### What stays the same

* The **daily** and **total loss limits** still apply. Breaching them still fails the account, unless you have **Daily Loss Protection**: it covers the daily limit once and works on every stage, including Trader.
* **Leverage** is still up to **1:5**, and you still trade **futures**.
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On the funded account, any trading strategy is allowed, apart from arbitrage and manipulation.

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Next: learn how your profit share works in [Profit share and payouts](/hashhedge-user-guide/account-and-payouts/profit-payouts.md).


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