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Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland

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

Alan Sanchez

Jakub Zeliska

Switzerland

United Arab Emirates

2022

2023

200% Challenge fee refund after the 3rd fully approved payout on Challenge accounts (Ash, Thunderbolt and Phoenix). The trader must request it through support. A partially approved payout or a payout with a strategy violation permanently disqualifies that account. It does not apply to Instant Funding accounts.

5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.

• Bank Transfer (recommended): $19.90 + 2.49%.
• Cryptocurrency: $19.90 + 30% (higher due to limited UAE crypto liquidity).
• Returned payouts: $30 reprocessing fee (covers real bank/admin cost of reprocessing; not a penalty).

1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.

• Withdrawal review by Risk Team: 24-48h (account trading is frozen during review).
• Bank transfers: 2-5 business days after approval.
• Crypto: faster, depends on blockchain network.
• Other programs: minimum 1% profit required per payout (resets after each payout).
• Turbo accounts: minimum 5 trading days per payout (each ≥0.5% profit).
• Vanguard (Instant Funding): minimum 6 trading days per payout (each ≥0.5% profit).
• Horizon and Odyssey: first payout 14 days after the funded account starts, then every 14 days. At least 3% profit of the initial balance is required before each payout, including between payouts, together with the required valid trading days.

$5,000 per transaction (crypto)

Payout cap progresses with each approved withdrawal on the same funded account:

• Payout #1: 1% of initial balance
• Payout #2: 2%
• Payout #3: 3%
• Payout #4: 4%
• Payout #5: 5%
• Payout #6: 6%
• Payout #7: account resets to initial balance with NO payout cap (unlimited from #8 onwards)
  Cap only increases after a FULLY approved withdrawal. Partial or declined payouts do not progress the cap.

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 20:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 5:1

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
• Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.

All accounts are swap‑free

If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No trade lost more than 2%.

2-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $180
• $10,000 -> $345
• $25,000 -> $760
• $50,000 -> $1,140
• $100,000 -> $1,880
• $200,000 -> $3,620

1-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $198
• $10,000 -> $380
• $25,000 -> $840
• $50,000 -> $1,255
• $100,000 -> $2,079
• $200,000 -> $3,980

Resets are offered as an alternative to full suspension after a rule violation. The account continues trading, but every future payout on that account is permanently capped at 50% of the approved amount.

1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).

Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.

Scaling Plan for Thunderbolt, Astral and Vanguard accounts:

• Apply every 4 consecutive months via help@upcomers.com.
• +35% increase on simulated initial balance per cycle.
• Maximum allocation scalable up to $4,000,000.
  Requirements per cycle:
• ≥15% cumulative account growth across the 4 months.
• ≥2 withdrawals completed in the 4-month period.
• Final cycle must end in profit.
  Separate "4M on request" individual contract available after 6+ consecutive profitable months.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
• Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Current CFD programs use three systems:

• Dynamic Risk Shield™: 6% on Ash and Thunderbolt, 7% on Vanguard, 5% on Oracle and 4% on Ember. It trails the equity high-water mark and locks at the initial balance where specified.
• Static maximum loss: 6% on Phoenix Classic, Ignite Classic and Ignite Turbo; 10% on Phoenix Legacy; 7% on Surge. The floor is fixed from the initial balance.
• Nonstop Dynamic Risk Shield™: 3% on Supernova and Hypernova; 2% on Ultranova. It trails continuously and never locks.
  Percentages and behavior are shown per phase in the challenge catalogue.
• Horizon and Odyssey: Dynamic Risk Shield™ follows the highest equity, only moves upward and stops at the initial balance, in evaluation and funded phases.

• Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
• 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
• Break: 80% in the Final Stage.

Standard profit split: 90%. A trader can select 80% or 100% at checkout; changing the split also changes the Challenge price. The selected split remains linked to that account, and older accounts retain their original conditions.

If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No single trade lost more than 2%.
• You traded for at least 15 days.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
• Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Resets daily at 00:00 UTC and is calculated under the rules of each program. Current limits:

• Ash Classic/Turbo and Thunderbolt Classic/Turbo: 3%
• Phoenix Classic, Ignite Classic/Turbo and Surge: 4%
• Phoenix Legacy: 5%
• Vanguard and Oracle: 4%
• Supernova and Hypernova: 2%
• Ember and Ultranova: no daily drawdown
• Horizon and Odyssey: daily limits by phase are shown in the challenge catalogue; Odyssey has a stricter daily limit when funded.

Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.

Unlimited

Classic, Legacy and non-Turbo Limited Drop challenges have no time limit. Ash Turbo, Thunderbolt Turbo and Ignite Turbo have 30 calendar days and a maximum of 7 trading days. Timed Instant Funding sessions last 24 hours on Supernova, 4 hours on Hypernova and 1 hour on Ultranova.

• 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
• Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
• Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.

No minimum trading days to pass the challenge in any Classic, Turbo or Limited Drop (Ignite/Surge) program. Turbo challenges require only 1 trading day with real activity. For those programs, minimums apply only at the payout stage: see 'minimumProfitableDays'.
Horizon requires 2 valid trading days in its evaluation. Odyssey requires 2 valid trading days in each evaluation phase. A valid day earns at least 0.5% of the initial balance.

Payout eligibility requirements (a valid day has at least 0.5% realized profit):

• Vanguard: 6 valid days
• Oracle, Ember, Phoenix Legacy, Ignite Classic, Surge, Ash Turbo, Thunderbolt Turbo and Ignite Turbo: 5 valid days
• Ash Classic, Thunderbolt Classic and Phoenix Classic: no valid-day minimum
• Supernova and Hypernova: at least 7 trades in the timed session
• Ultranova: at least 5 trades in the timed session
  The counter resets after each successful payout.
  Horizon and Odyssey funded accounts require 3 valid days up to $50,000, 4 above $50,000 up to $200,000, and 5 above $200,000 per payout. Each valid day earns at least 0.5% of the initial balance.

Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.

Not explicitly prohibited, but strongly discouraged. Use of VPN/VPS during KYC/AML verification is prohibited and can result in the account not being funded or being closed. If suspicious activity is detected, VPN usage will be used against the trader in the review.

Hedging across multiple accounts is prohibited. Hedging within a single account is allowed under normal trading rules.

Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.

Multiple challenges and funded accounts combinable under a single user profile, as long as total funded capital does not exceed $1,500,000 across all Upcomers programs.

Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.

Maximum loss per trade in the funded phase (all positions on the same instrument and direction count as one trade):

• Ash Classic, Thunderbolt Classic and Phoenix Classic: 3%
• Phoenix Legacy, Vanguard and Oracle: 2%
• Ash Turbo, Thunderbolt Turbo, Ignite Classic, Ignite Turbo, Surge and Ember: 1.5%
• Supernova and Hypernova: 1%
• Ultranova: 0.5%
  Exceeding the applicable limit is a hard breach.

Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.

Ascend

During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.

Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.

Consistency is checked at payout and does not breach the account:

• 20% Best Day Rule: current Classic and Turbo challenges, Ignite, Surge, Vanguard, Oracle and Ember
• 30% Best Day Rule: Phoenix Legacy
• Best Trade Rule in timed Instant Funding: 15% on Supernova and Hypernova; 20% on Ultranova
  The Best Day cycle resets after each successful payout. The timed Best Trade Rule is final when the session ends.
• Horizon and Odyssey: no consistency or Best Day Rule in evaluation or funded accounts.

Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.

High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.

• Expert Advisors (EAs), bots, emulators or automated trading of any kind (even partial automation of entries, exits, SL/TP management or trade copying). Indicators used for analysis are allowed.
• Tick scalping (trades held under 2 minutes on Oracle/Supernova/Hypernova) and high-frequency trading (HFT).
• Martingale, grid trading, one-sided bets, reverse trading and group hedging.
• News straddling (bracket orders placed around economic releases).
• Signal services and copy trading from external sources.
• Team/group trading or executing identical trades across accounts to bypass the $1.5M cap.
• Sharing passwords, account access or identity (KYC).
• Exploiting platform bugs, delays or pricing errors.
• Opening multiple user profiles (One Person, One Account policy).
• Splitting trades intentionally to bypass the 20% Best Day Rule.

35 consecutive calendar days without a trade closes the account automatically. Warning email sent 7 days before expiration.