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

Algaroud Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jakub Zeliska

Daniel Martin and Martin Najat

2023

2018

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.

• 1-Step, 2 Step: 100% of your sign-up fee refunded when you hit 10% profit target on funded account
• Instant Funding: 50% of your sign-up fee refunded when you hit 10% profit target on funded account at level 2
• Instant Funding Pro: No refund

• 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).

• 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 5 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.

1-Step, 2-Step

• 1st payout after at least 7 Profitable (0.5% or more) Trading Days and a Minimum of 2% net profit or $100 (whichever is higher).
• After your 1st payout, you can request any subsequent payouts Monthly, during the last 5 days of each month.

Instant

• You can request the 50% profit share from Level 1 when the 10% profit target is achieved on Level 2.
• You can request the second payout on Demand anytime once you have at least 5 profitable trading days and a minimum of 2% net profit or $100 (whichever is higher).
• After the 1st payout, you can request any subsequent payouts Bi-Weekly, on the 14th/15th & the last 2 days of each month.

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.

All accounts are swap‑free

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.

You can reset your challenge with an unlimited 15% discount (1-Step, 2-Step, Instant Funding) or 10% (Instant Funding Pro)

Scaling Plan for Thunderbolt 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.

1-Step, 2-Step

• You must achieve at least a +10% profit overall in the last 4 months. (Withdrawals don't affect this target).
• Be profitable in at least 2 out of those 4 months.
• Your account must have a positive balance (in profit) at the time of scaling.
• Balance increases by +50% of its original balance, up to $100,000, and then $25,000 up to $200,000

Instant

• You must achieve a 10% net profit of the initial account balance. (Withdrawals don't affect this target).
• 20% Consistency Score.
• Your account balance doubles until you reach the $2 million per account.

Current CFD programs use two systems:

• Dynamic Risk Shield™: 6% on Ash and Thunderbolt, 10% on Phoenix Legacy, 8% 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. The floor is fixed from the initial balance.
  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.

• 2-Step, Instant: Static
• 1-Step: Trailing

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.

• 1-Step, 2-Step: 80% (base value), 90% (Bronze Level), 100% (Silver Level)
• Instant Funding: starts at 50% (Level 1)
• Instant Funding Pro: starts at 70% (Level 2)
• Instant scaling: 80% (Level 3), 90% (Bronze Level), 100% (Silver Level)

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: 4%
• Phoenix Legacy: 5%
• Vanguard and Oracle: 4%
• Ember: no daily drawdown
• Horizon: 3% and Odyssey: 4%, in evaluation and funded.

Balance-based

• 1-Step: $200,000
• 2-Step: $200,000
• Instant: $80,000

Classic and Legacy challenges have no time limit. Ash Turbo and Thunderbolt Turbo have 30 calendar days and a maximum of 7 trading days.

Unlimited

No minimum trading days to pass the challenge in any Classic or Turbo 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, Oracle, Ember, Phoenix Legacy, Ash Turbo and Thunderbolt Turbo: 5 valid days
• Ash Classic, Thunderbolt Classic and Phoenix Classic: no valid-day minimum
  The counter resets after each successful payout.
  Horizon funded accounts require per payout 3 valid days up to $50,000, 4 above $50,000 and below $200,000, and 5 from $200,000. Odyssey funded accounts require 3 below $100,000 and 4 from $100,000. Each valid day earns at least 0.5% of the initial balance.

• 1-Step, 2-Step: 3 days on evaluation phase, 7 days on funded phase
• Instant: 5 days for payout On Demand

Loyalty Program. Complete daily and weekly quests to earn points, unlock discounts, and win cash prizes or even free funded accounts.

Allowed, including third-party EAs, bots and trade or risk managers, as long as the trading rules are followed. HFT, tick scalping, latency arbitrage, emulators and running the same EA with the same settings as other traders 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.

Prohibited, also within the same account and across multiple accounts.

Not using a stop loss is treated as a soft breach. Your account won’t be closed, but the system will automatically exit the trade after 1 minute if no stop loss has been set.

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, Odyssey, Vanguard and Oracle: 2%
• Ash Turbo, Thunderbolt Turbo, Horizon and Ember: 1.5%
  Exceeding the applicable limit is a hard breach.

Only between accounts owned by the same person (Upcomers, other prop firms or brokers). Copying to or from other people's accounts and signal services are prohibited.

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

30 days

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

• 20% Best Day Rule: current Classic, Legacy and Turbo challenges, Vanguard, Oracle and Ember
  The Best Day cycle resets after each successful payout.
• Horizon and Odyssey: no consistency or Best Day Rule in evaluation or funded accounts.

• Emulators, and running the same EA with the same settings as other traders to produce identical trades.
• Tick scalping (trades held under 2 minutes on Oracle) and high-frequency trading (HFT).
• Martingale, grid trading, one-sided bets, reverse trading and hedging (also within the same account).
• News straddling (bracket orders placed around economic releases).
• Signal services and copying trades from other people's accounts.
• 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.

• Exploit Price Inefficiencies / Price Feed Errors
• Group Hedging / Hedging / Group Trading / Copy Trading
• Account Sharing / Reselling of Account / Account Management
• One-Sided Bets
• Gamble to Pass / Over-Leveraging
• Using 3rd-Party EAs (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Bracketing Strategies
• Martingale Trading Style (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Grid Trading