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Headquarters

Corso G. Matteotti 61, Latina, 04100, Italy

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

CEO

Christian Habibi

Jakub Zeliska

Country

Italy

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2023

2023

Banned Countries
United States, Canada, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, North Korea, Israel, Syria, Palestine
Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestine, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Stocks, Crypto
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Stocks, Crypto
Brokers
Funded Elite
Royal Flow - FZCO
Refund
Yes
  • Without Second Chance: If you complete our challenges successfully on your first attempt, your original fee will be reimbursed with your third payout.
  • With Second Chance: If you activated the "Second Chance" option and received a complimentary retry, the initial fee becomes non-refundable.
Yes

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.

Payout Fee
  • Rise: $35
  • ERC20 and BTC: Around $7
  • TRC20: Around $3
  • 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).
Platforms
Metatrader 5, TradeLocker
TradeLocker, Metatrader 5, MatchTrader, cTrader, DX
Demo Account
MetaTrader 5
ID55188PasswordFundedelite1!Server Fundedelite-Server
Metatrader 5
ID1293766PasswordUpcomers1.ServerUpcomers-Server
Payout Methods
Crypto, Rise
Crypto, Transfer
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, PayPal, ApplePay, GooglePay
Payout Frequency

Can be choose at checkout: 3, 7, 14, 21 days

  • 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.
Crypto Weekend Trading
No data
Yes
Maximum Withdrawal
  • Crypto: $500
  • Giveaway and free accounts: 2% of the initial balance

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.
Minimum Withdrawal
  • Crypto: $30
  • Rise: $500
No data
Forex

30:1 (50:1 and 100:1 available as an add-on at the checkout)

100:1
Metals
10:1
30:1
Energies
10:1
30:1
Indices
10:1
30:1
Crypto
2:1
30:1
Stocks
No data
30:1
Forex
3 / lot
5 / lot
Metals
0 / lot
5 / lot
Energies
3 / lot
0
Indices
0
0
Crypto
0
0.04%
Stocks
No data
0
Commission-Free Option
No data
No
Swap Free
No
Yes

All accounts are swap‑free

Account Reset

Traders can independently restart their live account directly from the dashboard.

  • The initial reset carries a fee equal to 20% of the original challenge price (no discounts applied and including any selected add-ons), with a minimum charge of $10 USD.
  • The fee for the second reset will be double the cost of the first reset.
  • The third and final reset will cost twice the fee of the second reset.

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.

Add-ons
Yes
  • Forex Leverage: 30:1, 50:1, 100:1
  • Allow Scalping
  • Weekend trading (open or close positions)
  • Profit Split: 60%, 70%, 80%, 95%
  • Days between payout: 3, 7, 14, 21
  • Profit target: 6-12
  • Max Drawdown: 6-10
No
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
Yes
Yes

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.
Two Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown
  • 1 Step, 2 Step: Static
  • Instant: Trailing
  • Activation: Static during challenge and trailing on funded account
  • Catalyst: Trailing equity. 6% at $25K, 5% from $50K up

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.
Profit Split
  • 1 Step, 2 Step: 60%, 70%, 80%, 95% (can be selected at the checkout)
  • Instant: 70%, 95%
  • Activation: 80%
  • Catalyst: 80% at $25K, 85% at $50K, 90% at $100K, 95% from $200K and up

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.

Free Trial
No
Yes
Daily Drawdown

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark).

  • Catalyst: 3% of the higher of yesterday's closing balance or equity

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.
Three Steps
No
Yes
Max Allocation
  • Vietnam, Pakistan: 100,000
  • Rest of the world: 300,000
1,500,000
Merge Accounts
Yes
No
Maximum Trading Days

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.

Minimum Trading Days
  • 1 Step, 2 Step: 3 days on funded account

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.

Points Reward Program

Elite Packs: each pack contains three reward cards. Depending on the card obtained, rewards can remove consistency requirements, increase profit split or drawdown allowance, enable weekend trading or scalping, change payout frequency, reduce or skip trading days, skip a 2-Step evaluation phase, or provide account and reset discounts. One card rewards three $400K Instant Elite accounts. Benefits depend on the card obtained and its redemption conditions.

Packs and credit cost

  • Ignition: 3,000 credits
  • Breakout: 6,000 credits
  • Market Maker: 10,000 credits
  • Whale: 12,500 credits; every card is Uncommon or better
  • Oracle: 15,000 credits; every card is Rare or better

Higher-tier packs offer better odds of higher-rarity cards. Cards are drawn separately; the displayed odds are per card.

Credits

Credits can be purchased by card or crypto, or obtained by converting Payout Credits. Crypto purchases receive a 5% discount.

  • $10: 1,150 credits
  • $25: 3,105 credits, including an 8% bonus
  • $50: 6,440 credits, including a 12% bonus
  • $100: 13,340 credits, including a 16% bonus
  • $250: 34,500 credits, including a 20% bonus
No data
Monthly Competition
Yes
No
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 1 Step, 2 Step: 3 days of at least 0.5% profit on challenge phase
  • Instant: 3 days of at least 1% profit on funded phase
  • Activation: 3 days of at least 0.5% profit on both challenge and funded phase
  • Catalyst: 5 days with a minimum PnL per stage ($150 / $250 / $350 / $450 / $650 / $850 / $1,000 for $25K → $1M)

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 Advisor (EA)
No

Only manual trading tools are allowed, not automated trading

No
VPN
Yes

Must inform Funded Elite in advance

Limited

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
No
No

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

Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Yes

Trades must last longer than 30 seconds if the scalping add-on was purchased, and more than3 minutes if it wasn't

Yes
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Yes
Yes

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.

Martingale
Yes
No data
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Funded Phase: Risking more than 50% of your daily loss limit on a single instrument during the same day is strictly prohibited.

Yes

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
Yes
No
News Trading
Yes
Yes
Inactivity Rule

29 days

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

Consistency Rule
Yes
  • Instant: yes
  • Catalyst: yes
Limited

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.
Hold Weekend
Yes
Yes
Prohibited Strategies
  • IP sharing
  • HFT
  • Hedging
  • Account Rolling
  • Account Sharing/any passing service
  • Latency Arbitrage
  • Server Spamming
  • 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.
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