ARLO
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OverviewHow it works
THE TWO SEATS
The Trader seatThe Backer seat
WHAT PROTECTS YOU
The controlsSecurity and the code
TRADING
Trade on GMXOrder costs
REFERENCE
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Trade 3× your money.
Keep 100% of your wins.
Choose your allocation and trade the full $15,000 launch wallet from a $5,000 contribution. Keep 100% of the upside, with a fixed +5.00% wallet move to cover the $750 fee and reach break-even. The ticket shows your size, leverage, entry and exits before you place the order.
3×
your money, from day one: $5,000 funds a $15,000 wallet
up to 30 days
to work with it, with early settlement available
100%
of the upside after the fixed fee is covered, with no profit split
+5.00%
on the wallet to cover the fixed $750 fee and reach break-even
WHY TRADERS USE ARLO
ARLO
A TYPICAL PROP FIRM
Getting an account
Fund $5,000 and join a queue. Nothing to pass.
Pay for an evaluation you can fail. Often two phases.
What you trade
$15,000. All of it, from day one.
A simulated balance, at their discretion.
Your share of the profit
100%. There is no split and no mechanism for one.
Typically 20-50% goes to them, forever.
What it costs
$750, once, recovered at the end out of the wallet.
An evaluation fee, often per attempt, paid up front.
The rules
The contract reserves $4,000 of opening room across open positions.
Daily drawdown, max drawdown, news bans, weekend bans.
Who decides if you broke them
The chain. An order that breaks the cap is rejected on chain.
They do, after the fact, reading their own document.
Getting paid
Settlement lands in your account, and you withdraw to your own wallet whenever you like.
You request. They approve. On their schedule.
Worst case
You lose your $5,000. There is no debt and nobody to chase you.
You lose the fee and the account, and start again.
Can the terms change mid-term
No. A formed Arlo has no owner, no pause and no upgrade path.
Yes. The rules are a document they control.
THE TERMS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TRADE
You have to clear +5.00% in 30 days.
Your $750 fee is 5% of the $15,000 you trade, and it comes out of the wallet at the end. The wallet has to reach $15,750 before you keep a dollar. That is a real hurdle and it is the whole quality filter: the seat only makes sense for someone who believes they can beat it.
The $750 is not refundable. Ever.
Not on early settlement, not on a halt, not pro rata for days you did not use. It buys the term, not the time, settle on day two and you paid what thirty days costs.
You can lose your entire $5,000.
It is spent first, in full, before anything else in the Arlo is touched. Almost every Arlo that goes wrong ends inside your own money and nobody else ever notices.
A halt at $11,000 ends the Arlo outright.
Not a warning and not a margin call. Every position closes and the Arlo settles in the same sequence. There is no topping up and carrying on, and no way to get the term back.
THE TRADING EDGE
Five percent sounds like a lot to clear. It is a third of what it costs you alone.
You break even at +5.00% on the $15,000. Trading your own $5,000, the very same dollars of profit need a 15% move. That is the whole point of the seat: not a bigger bet, but three times the size at the same distance from your stop. And you cannot be liquidated into a debt while you do it, your $5,000 is the floor and the ceiling of what a bad month can cost you.
THE VENUE TAKES ITS OWN SHARE OF THAT NUMBER
The 5% fee is Arlo's only revenue, but it is not the Trader's only cost. The venue takes its own. The published break-even ($750 / $15,000 = 5.00%) is the floor, not the figure, and the real one is higher.
On GMX, every close is charged to the loss budget at $1 plus 10 bps of the position's size — per position, per close: the deployment's fixed inputs, not a rate copied from GMX. The 10 bps part scales with the position; the $1 part is paid on every position and every trade, so a book split across four positions pays it four times a close. GMX's own open fee and hourly funding sit on top; the keeper's execution gas is charged in ETH, and it never touches the USDC budget. On a full-size $15,000 position, one charged close is $16 — 0.107% of the book. A single full-size round trip starts the real break-even near 5.11%, before GMX's open fee and funding, and it rises with how often a Trader trades, not only with how much they trade.
We publish the floor and price the venue difference into each calculator rather than freezing a stale percentage into the page.
THE ONE RULE, IN FULL
Open positions share $4,000 of room.
The contract adds the measured loss at every declared exit, the measured exit bound and close cost. The total must fit the room available when the order is submitted. Your allocation is separate from maximum loss. Position value is your allocation × leverage.
The room moves with the wallet.
The available room is the gap between the wallet and $11,000, so a good week raises it and a bad one lowers it. A market moving against you does not shrink it on paper: the wallet falls and the distance to your stops falls by the same amount. It only tightens when you actually lose.
Every position carries a stop, priced against you.
You cannot open a bet and decide later where to get out, and we do not take your word for what a position can cost. Every step rounds against you. If a stop sits so far out that the exchange would close you first, the stop is ignored and the whole position is charged.
You can settle early.
Settle at any time and your Backer is paid the same $10,600, sooner. Nobody else can end it early: not them, not us, and there is no key that could. Otherwise it runs to day 30 or to the halt.
BUILDING A POSITION
Your allocation funds the position.
Choose how much of your available Trader balance you want to fund into this position. It is not the maximum loss and it does not isolate the position from the rest of the Arlo wallet.
Position size follows allocation × leverage.
The order ticket shows the resulting position value beside the allocation, so you can see the size before you submit the order.
Set the exit before the order opens.
Every position carries a declared stop. You can also declare a take profit, tighten the stop later, and use a partial close or full close on the live size. The contract prices the stop and measured exit bound against the wallet-wide loss room.
The venue still controls execution.
The stop is a contract condition. A fill can differ from its trigger during a fast move, so the ticket shows the measured exit bound and the remaining wallet risk room instead of presenting the stop as a guaranteed fill price.
SEE YOUR UPSIDE AT A GLANCE
Each row shows what the Trader keeps at settlement for a different wallet outcome. The fee is fixed, so the move that clears it is the point where your share turns positive.
WALLET AT DAY 30
YOU KEEP
ON YOUR $5,000
$20,000
$9,250
a strong month, a 33% move nearly doubled your own money
+85%
$18,000
$7,250
a good month
+45%
$16,500
$5,750
a modest month, and comfortably clear of the fee
+15%
$15,750
$5,000
break-even. The fee is exactly covered and nothing more
0%
$15,500
$4,750
barely moved. The $750 fee comes out either way
−5%
$13,000
$2,250
a bad month, and entirely your own money
−55%
$11,000
$200
the halt fires and the Arlo ends here. A forced close spends the $50 reserve
−96%
below $10,750
$0
you keep nothing, and you owe nothing
−100%
Your Backer receives the same $10,600 in every row above the halt. You are not sharing your upside with them and they are not sharing your downside, they bought a fixed price and you bought thirty days of size. Every row settles at the term and keeps the $50 closing reserve; only a forced close spends it, which is why the halt row is $50 lighter than the arithmetic above it.
YOUR ALLOCATION AND SETTLEMENT
You put up
$5,000
Your Backer puts up
$10,000
You trade, from day one
$15,000
Nothing is carved out at the start
the fee is recovered at the end
At settlement, out of the wallet
$10,750
→ their capital
$10,000
→ their bonus
$600
→ Arlo's fee, last of the three
$150
→ the closing reserve, back to you if unused
$50
You keep everything above it
all of it
You break even at
$15,750 · +5.00%
Most you can lose
$5,000, and never a debt
BEFORE YOU TRADE
Nobody screens me?
Nobody. Capital is the only gate: you fund the seat, you are in, at full size, on day one. There is no score, no track record and no application, because there is nothing to screen for; the protection is the order the wallet pays in, not your counterparty's opinion of you.
What happens if I blow it up?
You lose your $5,000 and you owe nothing. There is no ban, no blacklist and no mark against your address. The next Arlo costs another $5,000 and another $750 and starts at the back of the queue. Doing it badly is priced, not policed.
Who is my Backer?
Whoever was next in the queue. You do not choose each other and you do not need to; every protection is identical whoever you are paired with, which is exactly why there is nothing to game.
Can they pull the money out mid-trade?
No. Once matched a Backer has no exit, no veto, no position limits and no early call. They cannot end your term to take their capital back. The only early exit in an Arlo is yours.
Where does my $5,000 come from?
Your account. You top it up from your own wallet, and a seat takes exactly $5,000 out of it, so the seat is a click rather than a transfer you have to get right. Settlement comes back to the same account, and it can only ever pay out to an Arlo you own or to the wallet you funded it from.
Take the Trader seat · $5,000
You can withdraw from the queue at any point before you are matched. Nothing is locked until an Arlo forms.