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

56 Alekou Konstantinou, Strovolos, 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus

Jakub Zeliska

Revin Zabala

United Arab Emirates

Cyprus

2023

2024

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.

Full refund after 3rd payout. Not available for Instant Funding Accounts and 1-step Nitro X 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).

5% processing fee on crypto payouts (covers blockchain costs, liquidity swaps, and infrastructure). Only TRC20 USDT supported for crypto payouts.

• 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.

On Demand, provided you have met these specific criteria:

• Consistency Rule
• Minimum Payout Amount of 1% of Initial Balance (Before-Split)
• Minimum Trading Days

Infinity Plus: requests any day, including weekends, once eligible. Requests require review and approval; trading pauses during review.

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.

• 2-Step Prime: $15,000 per month
• 1-Step Nitro X: $5,000 per account and request, and required to leave a buffer of 50% of the profits
• Crypto payouts: $5,000 per transaction (TRC20 USDT only)

Infinity Plus: no cap per payout and no mandatory balance buffer. After the first approved payout, the loss floor is the initial balance; a withdrawal must not cause balance or equity to touch that floor.

100%

110%

The 24-hour payout guarantee ensures that you are eligible to receive your full payout within 24 business hours of your payout request. If Funded Trader Markets fail to meet this time frame, they will double the requested payout and issue a free account of the same size. This guarantee is only applicable for payouts up to $1000.

• 1-Step Nitro X: Must make at least a 3% profit before withdrawal
• All other accounts: 1% of initial balance

Infinity Plus: minimum request $50; balance must be at least 1% above initial capital to request. No additional new-profit requirement between consecutive requests.

• BTC, ETH: 5:1
• Other crypto: 2:1

All accounts are swap‑free

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.

A reset gives a trader who has violated their account rules (such as exceeding the Daily or Overall Loss Limit) the ability to restore the account to its original starting balance paying a fee, and begin trading again.

1-Step Nitro X (Evaluation Phase)

• Reset Limit: Unlimited
• Reset Window: Within 30 days of the original purchase date

1-Step Nitro and 1-Step Nitro X (Funded Phase)

• Reset Limit: One-time only

Instant Standard

• Reset Limit: One-time only
• Reset Window: Within 24 hours after the breach

90% Profit Split (2-Step Plus): It has no cost on money but Shield Risk Protocol will apply now on evaluation phase as well

Infinity Plus: upgrade for 1-Step Infinity; removes the mandatory payout buffer, payout caps and additional profit requirement between consecutive requests.

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.

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.

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

Infinity Plus: static floor during evaluation and until the first approved funded payout. It then moves once to the initial balance and stays there permanently; touching it with balance or equity breaches the account.

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.

Instant Standard, Instant Pro

• 1st payout: 50%
• 2nd payout: 60%
• 3rd payout: 70%
• 4th payout and next: 80%

Instant Plus

80%

2-Step Plus

70% (up to 90% with 2-Step Plus add-on)

1-Step Nitro

90% for the first $10,000 and 80% after that

1-Step Nitro X

100%

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.

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

Infinity Plus: daily loss allowance is based on initial capital; the daily stop-out resets at 5 PM ET from the higher end-of-day balance or equity.

Evaluations

• 2-Step Plus: $200,000
• 1-Step Nitro: $300,000
• 1-Step Nitro X: $150,000

Instant Funding

• Instant Standard: $100,000
• Instant Pro: $100,000
• Instant Plus: $100,000

Infinity Plus: maximum allocation $20,000. Combined 1-Step Infinity and Infinity Plus allocation: $60,000.

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.

Infinity Plus: no minimum trading days in evaluation or funded.

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 Nitro / 1-Step Nitro X

• Evaluation: no minimum days.
• Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.

2-Step Plus

• Evaluation: 3 minimum days per phase.
• Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit.

Instant Standard / Pro / Plus

• Payout eligibility: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.
• Instant Pro: trading-day requirement can be removed with a checkout add-on.

If your Simulated Funded account with Funded Trader Markets is in profit but has been breached, you may still qualify for a withdrawal with a 50% split, provided the following conditions are met:

• Stop Loss Usage: Every trade had an SL in place.
• Loss Limits: No single position incurred a loss exceeding 1% of the account's initial balance.

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.

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.

Shield Risk Protocol

Maximum Floating Loss Limits

• Instant Plus, 2-Step Plus: Maximum floating loss = 1% of account balance

Breach Consequences

• Breach it once = 80% profit split drops to 50%
• Breach it repeatedly = payout share reduces permanently to 40%, 30% and finally 20%

Infinity Plus: no additional risk limits; daily and overall drawdown limits still apply.

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.

Built-in Copy Trading lets traders link their own FTM accounts and mirror trades, including from Evaluation to Funded phases. Available across supported platforms. Account sharing and group trading remain prohibited.

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

Accounts inactive for 30 days are subject to closure.

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.

Instant (all)

• If a single day's profit is more than 20% of your total profit in the Instant Funding Account, you have to keep trading until the best day profit is less than 20% of the total profit.

1-Step Nitro

50% on evaluation phase and 45% on funded phase

1-Step Nitro X

25% on funded phase

2-Step Plus

No consistency rule on evaluation. No consistency rule on funded phase.

Infinity Plus: no consistency rule in evaluation or funded.

• 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.

• Using Manipulative Software or Techniques
• Non-Standard Trading Practices
• Using External or Slow Data Feeds
• Exploiting Service Errors
• Manipulative Trading
• Hedging Across Accounts
• Account Management Services
• Group Trading
• High-Frequency Trading
• News Scalping
• Arbitrage Trading
• Multi-Account Reverse Trading
• Tick Scalping
• Internal Reverse Trading
• Group Hedging
• Account Management Services
• Account Sharing

Martingale and layering are allowed per account (increasing position size after a loss, or opening multiple positions in the same direction at different price levels). Running these strategies across multiple accounts simultaneously is prohibited and counts as abusive behavior.