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Seychelles
United Arab Emirates
Building A1, IFZA Business Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jakub Zeliska
2023
Simulated trading in a proprietary TradingView-chart terminal, available through browser, PWA and Telegram. Prices from Stork, Pyth and Upscale Price Index. Trading from tradingview.com is unavailable.
Live Hyperliquid order book and market data
First request after 14 calendar days from funded activation; subsequently 14 days after each completed payout. At least 5 profitable days per period. Advertised processing: up to 48 hours. One request per period.
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.
Per period, based on original notional: 5K, 50%; 10K and 25K, 40%; 50K, 25%; 100K, 20%; 200K, 15%. Excess profit stays in the account.
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 1. USDT to a non-custodial wallet on TON, Base or BSC. Free margin must cover the request and equity must exceed the current iteration baseline. Only profit above the original notional is withdrawable. Open RWA positions in paused markets block requests.
$45 after applying the selected profit split.
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.
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.
100:1; Turbo 30:1
Forex perpetuals: up to 25:1
Gold/silver 10:1, Turbo 5:1; copper 10:1, Turbo 3:1
Gold and silver: up to 8:1. Copper: up to 5:1
WTI 5:1, Turbo 2:1; gas 10:1, Turbo 3:1
WTI and Brent crude: up to 8:1
US 15:1, Turbo 5:1; GER40, EU50 and KR200 10:1, Turbo 3:1
Index perpetuals: up to 10:1
5:1; Turbo 2:1
Stock and ETF perpetuals: up to 4:1
5:1; Turbo 2:1
BTC, ETH and SOL: up to 10:1. Other cryptocurrencies: up to 2:1
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.
Funding on notional in both directions: crypto 0.015% every 8 hours (00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC); forex 0.009% daily, triple Wednesday; gold/silver 0.048% daily, triple Wednesday; indices, stocks, WTI, gas and copper 0.025% daily. US/European indices and copper: triple Friday. WTI at 20:00 UTC; stocks, indices, gas and copper at 16:00 New York. Other exact times in terminal.
Paid funded restoration only for eligible Basic/Accelerated accounts after automated review and within 48 hours of failure. Not guaranteed or available for demo, Turbo or accounts requiring fewer than 5 payout profit days. Selectable balance from 92% (Basic) or 96% (Accelerated), with at least 1% buffer above the breach floor. Individually priced, no discounts. Limits and withdrawable profit remain tied to original notional; days and period reset.
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% split: +20% of base price. Basic/Accelerated daily protection: +15% of base price, one use across the account lifetime; closes positions and blocks trading until 00:00 UTC, without covering maximum drawdown. API subject to checkout size eligibility. Discounts do not reduce option costs.
Published plan: every 4 months, at least 60 trading days, withdrawals above 10% of balance and no aggressive trading; 10% balance increase and 2 percentage points in split, up to USD 800,000 and 90%.
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.
Basic and Accelerated: static within each iteration. Turbo: trailing highest equity, including floating PnL. Each payout starts a new iteration and recalculates the threshold; Turbo also reduces its high-water mark. Reaching a limit closes the account and forfeits accumulated profit. Basic funded accounts retain second-phase conditions.
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.
Free demo under real market conditions; completing a simulated payout request unlocks a one-time 20% discount on a paid challenge.
Based on day-start equity, including floating PnL; resets at 00:00 UTC. Not applicable to Turbo.
Thunderbolt and Horizon: 3%. Phoenix, Vanguard and Odyssey: 4%. Measured from the higher of equity or balance at 00:00 UTC.
Basic and Accelerated: USD 400,000 combined. Turbo: an additional USD 100,000 under an independent cap. Based on initial notional of active funded accounts; excess accounts are paused until manually activated when room becomes available.
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.
No time limit.
Unlimited.
Profitable day: equity gain of at least 0.5% of initial notional between 00:00 UTC and day-end, including floating PnL. Basic: 3 days in phase 1 and 5 in phase 2; Accelerated: 3; funded and Turbo: 5 per payout period.
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.
Thunderbolt, Phoenix and Vanguard: 90% standard; 80% or 100% can be chosen at checkout and change the price. Horizon and Odyssey: fixed 80%.
Thunderbolt and Phoenix: no minimum to pass. Horizon: 2 days. Odyssey: 2 days per phase. Vanguard has no evaluation.
Bots and scripts through the API option, subject to eligible checkout sizes. MetaTrader EAs are unsupported. The option cannot be disabled and its restrictions also cover manual trades.
VPN or anonymisation must not be used to bypass access restrictions.
Not explicitly prohibited, but strongly discouraged. VPN or VPS use during KYC/AML verification is prohibited.
Allowed within one account. Opposite positions in the same asset across accounts are prohibited. If one account holds both directions, that asset cannot be traded on another account.
Prohibited, even within a single account, and across accounts.
Allowed. With the API option, profit from full or partial closes within 60 seconds of the last opening or increase is excluded; losses, commissions and funding count in full. No minimum holding time is published without this option.
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.
Open-interest caps per account and direction: WTI and gas USD 150,000; copper, GER40, EU50 and KR200 USD 300,000. Stocks: current cap in terminal. Minimum position size: USD 10.
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.
Identical same-direction trades across own accounts are allowed. Systematic copying between traders, manual, bots or signals, is prohibited. API keys are personal and non-transferable.
Allowed. US stocks switch to close-only 5 minutes before and after US macro releases. Dividends and splits can force closures and restrictions from 1 hour before to 1 hour after. Check the terminal calendar.
After 90 consecutive days without trades, the account is frozen; support can reactivate it. No automatic closure or loss of balance.
The account expires after 35 consecutive days without closing a trade. A warning is sent 7 days before expiration.
Turbo and API accounts: best day below 30% of total period profit. On API accounts this also gates each phase transition. No account closure: keep trading until compliant.
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.
Allowed subject to market schedules. US index positions opened or increased Friday 15:00-16:59 New York are closed at 16:59; GER40/EU50 window 14:00-15:59, closing at 15:59. The whole position closes; older positions without increases remain. Crypto trades 24/7.
All Perpetuals markets trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Cross-account hedging; systematic copying of other traders; sharing accounts or keys; exploiting bugs, incorrect quotes, latency or opening anomalies; manipulation, front-running, spoofing, fictitious or prearranged transactions. The firm may review trades and decline payouts for non-market 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.




















