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

Masarykova 409/26, Brno, Czech Republic

Jakub Zeliska

David Varga

United Arab Emirates

Czech Republic

Liquidity Provider

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.

Within 14 days of purchase, only if you haven't accessed MyFintokei or placed any trade. Refund must be requested via email.

• 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).

• ETH: 2.5% + 10 EUR
• BTC: 2.5% + 20 EUR
• Other crypto: 2.5%

• 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.

14 days

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: 100 EUR, 100 USD, 2,000 CZK, 20,000 JPY
• ProTrader $400,000: 120 EUR/USD
• SwiftTrader: 3% of the account balance

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 25:1
• ProTrader Swing: 25:1
• ProTrader: 100:1

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:25
• ProTrader Swing: 1:25
• ProTrader: 1:100

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:10
• ProTrader: 1:20

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:20
• ProTrader: 1:50

• BTC: 2:1
• Other Crypto: 1:1

All accounts are swap‑free

• ProTrader Swing: swap-free on all account sizes

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 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.

Achieve 10% profit during at least 2 consecutive months to increase your funded account balance. Only one scaled account per trader. More details on scalind structure here

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.

Static

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.

StartTrader (Dynamic Performance reward)

Your performance reward can vary from 50% to 100%, depending on your trading behavior. The system automatically assesses the way you trade, taking into account several aspects of your trading history, such as:

• The number of active trading days
• How you handle your account's leverage
• Your trading background, reflected in the number of payouts
• The consistency of your results, evaluated through your daily gains and losses

ProTrader: 80%

SwiftTrader: 90%

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.

• StartTrader, ProTrader, Swift: Equity based
• ProTrader Swing: Balance based

• ProTrader and ProTrader Swing (combined): 400,000 EUR/USD
• StartTrader: 100,000 EUR/USD
• SwiftTrader: 200,000 EUR/USD

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

• StartTrader: 180 days on phases 1 and 2
• SwiftTrader: 60 days
• ProTrader, ProTrader Swing: No limit

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.

• StartTrader, ProTrader, ProTrader Swing, SwiftTrader: 3 days on evaluation phase

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.

Loyalty Program based on Experience Points (XP) with 6 tiers. XP never expires.

How to earn XP

• Challenge purchases: 10-400 XP per purchase
• Milestones: 50-300 XP for passing phases, breaches, or approved payouts
• One-time bonuses: 200 XP each for registration, KYC completion, and first trial
• Daily activities: 10 XP for login or active trading days
• XP is earned even when failing challenges

Tier Benefits

• Tier 1 (0-1,999 XP): No benefits
• Tier 2 (2,000-4,999 XP): Free $5K StartTrader challenge, 5% performance boost, 5% capital boost
• Tier 3 (5,000-9,999 XP): Free $10K ProTrader challenge, 10% performance boost, +0.5% daily loss limit, 10% capital boost
• Tier 4 (10,000-19,999 XP): Free $20K ProTrader challenge, +1% daily loss limit, +1% max loss limit, 15% capital boost
• Tier 5 (20,000-29,999 XP): Free $50K ProTrader challenge, 15% performance boost, +1.5% daily/max loss limits, 20% capital boost
• Tier 6 (30,000+ XP): Free $100K ProTrader challenge, 20% performance boost, +2% daily/max loss limits, 25% capital boost

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.

• It is not allowed to have more than 10% of your total lot volume coming from tick scalping trades
• Any trade lasting less than 10 seconds falls under our tick scalping definition

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.

Open trades: 3%

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.

Fintokei applies Consistency Rules to promote sustainable trading and prevent gambling-style or high-risk behavior. These rules are used only after warnings and can affect either a single account or a trader's entire profile, depending on the severity. When applied, traders are notified with details about the restrictions and next steps.

• Reduced leverage (e.g., 1:10 for FX, 1:5 for other instruments)
• Daily profit and loss caps (+1% / -1% of starting balance)
• Inability to advance in the Scaling program
• Restrictions on new evaluation program purchases

These rules are intended as a safety layer, not a penalty, and can be lifted after 3–6 months of consistent, responsible trading.

Only StartTrader

Max 40% of your profit target can come from 1 day

• 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.

• Copying trades from other persons' signals
• Using services to pass prop trading evaluations
• Tick scalping
• HFT
• Latency arbitrage trading
• Opposite trading / hedging across multiple accounts or traders