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title: "Scaling plan - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "A published schedule under which a firm increases an account's virtual capital as the trader meets profit and consistency milestones."
url: "https://getfundednow.com/glossary/scaling-plan"
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last_modified: "2026-09-22"
publisher: "Get Funded Now (getfundednow.com)"
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disclosure: "All trading at Get Funded Now is simulated. 'Funded' means a simulated or virtual account; GFN is not a broker and does not hold client funds."
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Evaluations and accounts

# Scaling plan

A published schedule under which a firm increases an account's virtual capital as the trader meets profit and consistency milestones. Not every firm runs one, and the conditions vary widely.

GFN’s figure

GFN does not operate a staged scaling plan. Allocation grows by holding more accounts, up to $400,000 of simulated capital in total, and an account size cannot be upgraded after purchase.

- **Staged scaling**: Not offered
- **Maximum total allocation**: $400,000
- **Upgrading a purchased account**: Not available - buy at the size you want

In detail

## Scaling plan, explained

Scaling plans are attractive on paper and slow in practice, because the milestones usually require several consecutive profitable payout cycles before the first increase arrives.

The alternative model is a total allocation cap: instead of growing one account on a schedule, a trader holds several accounts up to a published ceiling, which puts the timing under their control rather than the firm's.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/scaling-and-allocation) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More evaluations and accounts](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/evaluations)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Maximum allocation](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/maximum-allocation) - The ceiling on how much simulated capital one trader may hold across every account with a firm. It is the real limit on how large a trader can get, and it is often lower than the largest account on sale suggests.
- [Account size](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/account-size) - The virtual balance an account is denominated in. It scales every percentage rule into dollars, sets the fee, and determines how much a single pip of movement is worth to your objectives.
- [Funded account](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/funded-account) - The account a trader receives after passing an evaluation, or buys directly under an instant programme. At a simulated-funding firm it is a simulated account whose eligible gains can qualify for a real payout.
- [Virtual capital](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/virtual-capital) - The simulated balance an evaluation or funded account is denominated in. It sets the size of every percentage-based rule on the account, and it is not money held on the trader's behalf.

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/scaling-plan
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