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2026-10

2023

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

Jakub Zeliska

United Arab Emirates

No refund after credentials are sent; support may authorize exceptions if no trades were placed. No fee refund for passing is published.

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.

Every 14 days. One and Two: first payout after 14 days. Instant: first after qualifying profitable days. Signature: 14-day waiting period for each payout. Paid via Rise or crypto; store credit is also available, irrevocable and expires after one year.

• 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.

Signature: maximum 3% of balance per payout.

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.

1% of balance on Instant, One and Two; Signature does not publish a specific minimum.

• 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).

Liquidity-provider commissions vary by instrument and platform; check specifications.

All accounts are swap‑free

Payout Protector: +25%. Remove Lock on Payout: +25%, only One and Instant. Optional; table prices exclude add-ons.

Static on One, Two and Signature. Instant: trailing on the highest end-of-day balance; retains its pre-payout level unless Remove Lock on Payout is purchased. One also retains its pre-payout level. Instant requires a 5% non-withdrawable buffer.

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.

Based on balance; monitor the breach level in the dashboard.

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.

No fixed count; the $1 million limit is shared across evaluations, funded accounts and markets.

No evaluation deadline; the inactivity limit applies.

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.

Checkout specifies no fixed minimum evaluation days; consistency may require additional days.

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.

Instant: 7 days. One and Two: 4 days with at least 0.25% daily profit. Signature: no specific requirement is published.

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.

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.

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.

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 FAQ permits proprietary automation subject to restrictions, but the checkout catalogue flags EAs as disallowed. Obtain written confirmation for the selected plan and platform before using automation.

Permitted within one account. Coordinated opposing positions across accounts or firms are prohibited.

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

Tick harvesting, full porting and sub-minute positions at or near the contract limit are prohibited.

No universal per-trade percentage is published; gambling, all-in and abuse of margin, leverage or contract limits are prohibited.

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.

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Signals, passing services, group trading and EAs facilitating copy trading are prohibited.

Existing positions may remain open. No opening or closing within 3 minutes before or after high-impact news. Consequences include P&L removal, reduced leverage or account termination.

Account closes after 30 consecutive days without trading.

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

One: 50% in evaluation and funded. Signature: 50% funded only. Instant: 18%. Two: no consistency rule. The best day cannot exceed that share of total profit; continue trading until compliant.

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.

Cross-account arbitrage, latency or pricing-error exploitation, insider trading, front-running, third-party passing strategies and changing strategy between evaluation and funded trading. All-in, gambling and excessive exposure are prohibited. Trading is reviewed before funded account issuance.

• 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.

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.

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.