# Manual Advancement

You can manually promote traders to the next stage when exceptions arise—perfect for handling edge cases, disputes, or fast-tracking high-potential candidates. Enjoy added flexibility without changing your core evaluation framework.

To advance traders, you will need to assign the respective permission:

* Manual Advancement - Provides rights to advance a trader to the next prop challenge stage.

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1. Only traders currently **"In Progress"** are eligible for manual advancement. Those who have already passed or failed cannot be advanced.
2. If there are **open positions**, the advancement cannot be performed until those positions are closed.

To advance a trader to the next stage, follow these steps:

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{% step %}

#### Navigate to Prop Challenge Participants

1. Go to "Prop Trading".
2. Select "Participants".

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{% endstep %}

{% step %}

#### Manual Advancement

1. Locate the trader you wish to manually advance to the next stage.

2. Click the "Manual Advancement" icon.

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3. A popup notification will appear to inform you that if the account qualifies for profit sharing, the system will automatically settle the profit during the advancement process. Click "Confirm" to proceed.\
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4. If the next stage is a demo stage, the trader will receive new trading credentials to continue the challenge.

5. If the next stage is a live stage, a live stage request will be generated. You must approve or reject this request:

   1. **Approve**: The trader receives credentials for the live account.
   2. **Reject**: The challenge will be marked as failed

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{% endstep %}
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