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100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US

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

Dylan Elchami

Jakub Zeliska

United States

United Arab Emirates

2021

2023

Liquidity Providers

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.

• 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).

One

• On demand

Signature

• On demand

Pro

• Daily payouts, requestable any day with at least 1% profit since the last payout.

• 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.

One

• No Cap

Signature

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.

Withdrawal method

• Rise: $250
• Plane: $50

One

• Your net profit (payout share) must be greater than 50% of your daily drawdown.

Signature

• Before you can start requesting payout, you need to leave a buffer in your account in the same size as your EOD Dynamic Drawdown.

• Signature Forex: 50:1
• One and Pro Forex: 30:1

• Signature Forex: 25:1
• One and Pro Forex: 15:1

• Signature Forex: 25:1
• One and Pro Forex: 15:1

• Signature Forex: 25:1
• One and Pro Forex: 15:1

• Signature Forex, One Forex and Pro Forex: 1:1

All accounts are swap‑free

10% discount

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.

• Swap-free (+10%)

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.

• Signature: Trailing
• One Forex: 4% Dynamic (follows the highest closed balance and locks at the initial balance)
• Pro Forex: 8% Static (only moves when the first payout is processed)

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.

• One: 80%, 90% or 100% (chosen at checkout)
• Signature: 80%
• Pro: 80%, 90% or 100% (chosen at checkout)

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.

The E8 Trial can replicate E8 One on MatchTrader. Up to 2 trials every 28 days. Trial accounts do not qualify for payouts and close after 30 days.

• One Forex: 3% balance-based (hard breach)
• Signature: Balance-based Daily Pause (soft breach; trading can resume the next day)
• Pro Forex: 2.5% balance-based (hard breach)

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.

Evaluation Phase

• Unlimited

Funded Phase

• One Forex: $500,000
• Pro Forex: $500,000
• Signature: Up to 5 accounts per market

One

• On demand

Signature

• On demand

Pro

• Daily payouts, requestable any day with at least 1% profit since the last payout.

• One: Allowed
• Signature: Not Allowed

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.

• One and Pro: no minimum, but at least one trade must be opened and closed every 60 days to keep the account active.

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.

• One: No minimum days
• Signature: 3 days with 0.3% profit or more for first payout and 5 days between each payout

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.

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.

You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute

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.

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.

One Forex

• Evaluation phase: Allowed
• Performance phase: Positions cannot be opened or closed in any way from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after a news release.

Pro Forex

• Allowed during both phases

Signature

• Allowed

60 days

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

• Signature: To request a payout, no single trading day can exceed more than 35% of your total generated profits.
• One: To request a payout, no single trading day can exceed more than 40% of your total generated profits.
• Pro: no consistency rule.

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.

• Signature: Not allowed. All positions are closed by 23:00 server time.
• One and Pro Forex: Allowed

• All-or-nothing
• Hedging across multiple accounts
• Multiple users utilizing the same EA
• Irresponsible Trading in Simulated Accounts
• High-Frequency Trading
• External Account Management

• 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.