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Building A1, IFZA Business Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jakub Zeliska

Proprietary simulated engine using order book liquidity from external exchanges and market makers. Index and commodity prices come from Hyperliquid.

Live Hyperliquid order book and market data

No fee refund. Only active evaluations are refunded if KYC is rejected.

Challenge accounts qualify for a bonus equal to 200% of the entry fee after the third fully approved payout. It does not apply to Vanguard Instant Funding.

On demand, 24/7, from the first funded day. No open positions when requesting; the amount leaves the balance immediately and trading can continue.

Thunderbolt, Phoenix and Vanguard: on demand when all requirements are met. Horizon and Odyssey: every 14 days. Qualifying days with at least 0.5% realized profit before each payout: Vanguard 5 (6 on accounts bought before 26 October 2026), Horizon 3 to 5 and Odyssey 3 or 4 by size; Thunderbolt and Phoenix none. The counter resets after every payout.

Approval within 12 to 24 hours, usually sooner. Paid in USDC (ERC-20) to the wallet provided.

No payout or profit cap.

Perpetuals use the same progressive payout-cap ladder as CFD accounts. The cap increases with each fully approved payout and is removed from payout #8 onward. Profit above the applicable cap is forfeited at the end of the segment.

USD 50, after the profit split.

$45 after applying the selected profit split.

Bank transfer: $19.90 + 2.49%. Cryptocurrency: $19.90 + 30%. Returned payouts: $30 reprocessing fee.

At least 1% realized profit (3% on Horizon and Odyssey) since account start or the previous payout; all positions closed; drawdown compliance; completed KYC and signed Trader Agreement.

Gold and silver: up to 8:1. Copper: up to 5:1

WTI and Brent crude: up to 8:1

Index perpetuals: up to 10:1

BTC 10:1; ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, DOGE and other majors 5:1; HYPE, PEPE, NEAR and similar 3:1; others 2:1. Fixed, cannot be changed.

BTC, ETH and SOL: up to 10:1. Other cryptocurrencies: up to 2:1

Forex perpetuals: up to 25:1

Stock and ETF perpetuals: up to 4:1

Crypto perpetuals: 0.015% maker / 0.045% taker. Stocks, ETFs, indices, commodities and forex: 0.003% maker / 0.009% taker. MSTR, PURRDAT and GOLD: 0.03% maker / 0.09% taker. No spread markup; $10 minimum order.

Swap of 0.033% of notional per open position per day. On the Breakout terminal it is charged in six parts, every 4 hours.

No reset. After a breach, a new evaluation must be purchased.

Resets may be offered after a rule violation. A violation-related reset permanently caps future payouts on that account at 50% of the approved amount.

90/10 split at purchase, permanent for that account. Cannot be added later.

Eligible funded accounts can scale by 35% every four consecutive months, up to $4,000,000, after achieving 15% cumulative growth, at least two payouts and a profitable final cycle.

Static from the starting balance, also on funded accounts; it does not rise with profits. Measured against equity, including floating P&L: touching it closes positions and the account.

Thunderbolt, Horizon and Odyssey: 6% trailing Dynamic Risk Shield that locks at the starting balance. Phoenix: 6% fixed maximum drawdown. Vanguard: 7% trailing maximum drawdown.

Recalculated daily at 00:30 UTC from the closed balance at that time, excluding open positions, and monitored against equity. Requesting a payout widens that day's limit by the payout amount.

Thunderbolt and Horizon: 3%. Phoenix, Vanguard and Odyssey: 4%. Measured from the higher of equity or balance at 00:00 UTC.

Current Perpetuals accounts are sold up to $400,000. Total funded capital across all Upcomers programs cannot exceed $1,500,000. Eligible accounts can scale to $4,000,000.

Several evaluations and funded accounts at once, up to USD 200,000 combined across active accounts. Each account keeps its own limits.

No time limit.

Unlimited.

None. Once the target is hit, even with open positions, the account moves to funded after KYC and signing the agreement (12 to 24 hours).

Thunderbolt and Phoenix: no minimum to pass. Horizon: 2 days. Odyssey: 2 days per phase. Vanguard has no evaluation.

Thunderbolt, Phoenix and Vanguard: 90% standard; 80% or 100% can be chosen at checkout and change the price. Horizon and Odyssey: fixed 80%.

Before each payout, days with at least 0.5% realized profit: Vanguard 5 (6 on accounts bought before 26 October 2026); Horizon 3 up to $50K, 4 up to $200K and 5 from $200K; Odyssey 3 below $100K and 4 from $100K. Thunderbolt and Phoenix: none.

Third-party, off-the-shelf or pass-the-evaluation strategies are prohibited. Proprietary terminal only, no MetaTrader.

Allowed if it does not hide the real jurisdiction. KYC must be completed without a VPN.

Not explicitly prohibited, but strongly discouraged. VPN or VPS use during KYC/AML verification is prohibited.

Within one account, only once the open position has substantial profit or loss. Prohibited across accounts or with other traders: a first inadvertent case may get a warning; otherwise all accounts are closed.

Prohibited, even within a single account, and across accounts.

No per-trade risk cap. Maximum size per instrument per the symbols page, with fixed leverage.

Funded maximum loss per trade: 3% on Thunderbolt and Phoenix; 2% on Vanguard and Odyssey; 1.5% on Horizon. Positions on the same instrument and direction count as one trade. Exceeding it is a hard breach.

Copying trades between users and executing third-party ideas or signals is prohibited: communities, social media, analysts or reports.

20% Best Day Rule at payout for Thunderbolt, Phoenix and Vanguard. It is a soft payout requirement and does not breach the account. Horizon and Odyssey: no consistency rule.

Overnight, weekends and holidays, with no forced close. Swap applies.

All Perpetuals markets trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Exploiting errors or latency, insider information, front-running, third-party or off-the-shelf strategies, switching strategy after passing, cross-account arbitrage, trades hard to replicate live (auto-deleveraging risk or extreme swings), copying others' ideas, account sharing or trading several accounts from the same household, device or IP, and hedging across accounts or traders. It leads to account closure and loss of profits.

Platform or feed exploitation, tick scalping, high-frequency trading, latency trading, arbitrage, grid trading, martingale, one-sided or all-or-nothing bets, reverse or group hedging, external signal or challenge-passing services, account sharing and coordinated trading are prohibited.

Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, HFT and latency exploitation are prohibited; trades repeatedly closed in under two minutes may be treated as tick scalping.

The account expires after 35 consecutive days without closing a trade. A warning is sent 7 days before expiration.