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7901 4th St N Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, United States

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

Jakub Zeliska

United States

United Arab Emirates

2023

Bank transfer: USD 19.90 + 2.49%. Crypto: USD 19.90 + 30%; reduced to USD 19.90 + 2.49% when more than 50% of the trader's purchases were paid in crypto.

After the three Ascension cycles you move to a Live account with Midgard's real capital, starting at $1,000 to $4,000 by size. Minimum balance: 30% of the highest end-of-day balance, which only rises; if equity touches it, the account is liquidated. No targets or payout caps. It requires extra verification (proof of address, phone and tax ID) and the trader pays their own market data.

Futures accounts are simulated (sim-funded).

• Raid: once per CME session; after a payout, wait for the next session (6 PM ET).
• Conquest: after 5 days at the minimum daily profit ($200, $250, $300 and $350 by size) and total profit of at least 5 times that minimum.
• Ascension: one bounty each completed cycle.

Thunderbolt, Horizon and Vanguard: on demand once the conditions are met. Apex: 14 days after the account starts, then every 14 days. Profit required per payout: Thunderbolt 1%, Horizon 3%, Vanguard and Apex 6%.

Paid as soon as you confirm an eligible request. It can be held while your latest fills are checked (about 15 minutes) or while the account is under review.

• Raid Light Armor: $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 per request (25K to 150K).
• Raid Plated: $10,000 per request on every size.
• Conquest: up to 50% of profit, capped at $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 on Light Armor and $2,500, $5,000, $7,500 and $10,000 on Plated.
• Live: no cap.

Thunderbolt and Horizon (payouts 1-3 / 4+): 25K 500/1,000; 50K 800/1,750; 100K 1,250/2,500; 150K to 400K 1,750/3,000 USD. Vanguard and Apex (payouts 1/2/3/4/5+): 25K 500/750/750/750/1,000; 50K 750/1,000/1,000/1,500/1,500; 100K 1,200/2,000/2,000/2,000/3,000; 150K 1,500/2,500/2,500/2,500/3,500 USD. Vanguard 200K to 400K: 3,000/3,000/3,000/3,500/3,500 USD.

$250 per request on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed bounties.

USD 100.

• KYC with Sumsub (ID and facial check) before the first payout.
• Payouts go through Rise or Dots, which ask for their own onboarding and tax forms.
• Microscalping: at most 50% of trades or profit since the last payout can come from trades under 12 seconds.
• Raid: the buffer must stay intact after each payout.
• Light Armor: you can only withdraw profit made since the last payout. Plated: the same, but only after a payout taken while profit was above the cap.

Realized profit and all positions closed; at least 1% profit since the previous payout. 20% Best Day Rule. Before the first payout, Vanguard requires 5 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit each.

Up to 3 resets per Trial account, bought manually. They restore the starting balance and erase the account history. Non-refundable.

Resets are available when offered by Upcomers. A rule-violation reset permanently limits future payouts on that account to 50%.

PLAT End-of-Day Drawdown boost: a Trial bought with it trails the highest end-of-day balance instead of intraday equity. Its price is not public.

Vanguard and Apex offer instant funding with no evaluation. Apex has no Best Day Rule.

Thunderbolt and Horizon are one-step evaluations with a 6% target. Horizon has no consistency rule.

+35% every 4 months, up to USD 4,000,000, with 15% cumulative growth, at least 2 payouts and a positive final cycle.

Intraday trailing: it follows the highest equity, unrealized profit included. On the Trial it locks at the profit target. Once funded it locks at the starting balance when profit reaches the buffer, which equals the drawdown. Losses and payouts reduce it dollar for dollar; at zero the account fails.

End-of-day (EOD) trailing, recalculated at 5:00 PM ET from the highest closing balance and locked at the initial balance: 4% on Thunderbolt and Horizon, 3% to 4% on Vanguard depending on size, 3% on Apex.

80% on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed 100% bounties.

Thunderbolt and Vanguard: 80% base split; 90% (checkout default) or 100% can be selected for a higher price. Horizon and Apex: fixed 80%.

Thunderbolt Classic includes an optional Trial Phase; Vanguard has no evaluation.

No daily loss limit.

Thunderbolt and Horizon: 3% in evaluation and 2% when funded. Vanguard and Apex: depends on account size, with no daily limit on $25K. Resets at 5:00 PM ET.

Up to 5 active accounts at once, Trial or funded: $750,000 with five 150K accounts.

Raid only: the buffer equals the account drawdown and only profit above it can be withdrawn. Conquest has no buffer.

5 active accounts at once and no more than 20 new funded accounts in any 30 days.

No fixed account-count limit; total funded capital cannot exceed USD 1,500,000 across all Upcomers programs.

No deadline, but you must trade at least once every 28 days.

No time limit to pass Classic; all futures accounts close after 14 calendar days without closing a trade.

• Trial: 3 days on Light Armor and 5 on Plated.
• Ascension: 5 days per cycle, not necessarily in a row.

Thunderbolt can be passed in 1 day. Horizon requires 2 trading days with at least 0.5% profit each. Vanguard and Apex have no evaluation.

No activation fee on purchased accounts. Free accounts (100% code, gift or giveaway) may pay a one-time activation when moving to funded: $49 on Light Armor and $99 on Plated.

Thunderbolt and Horizon are sold with no activation fee or as Standard, with a lower entry price plus an activation fee after passing. Vanguard and Apex have no activation fee. No recurring platform or data subscription stated by Upcomers.

PLAT: points for purchases, milestones and promotions, which can also be bought. They cannot be withdrawn, have no cash value and are reversed if the purchase is refunded.

• Conquest: 5 days at the minimum daily profit for its size.
• Raid and Ascension: none.

Days with at least 0.5% profit before each payout: Thunderbolt 3 (none on accounts bought before 29 October 2026), Horizon 5 and Apex 5. Vanguard has no day minimum; it requires 6% profit since the last payout.

The contract limit depends on account size and does not drop after funding.

One-time fee per account, no subscription or rebills. You pick the platform at checkout.

One-time payment based on program, size and profit split. Challenge prices are listed at the 80% base split, before any promotional code.

Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.

Bots and automation are allowed when the strategy is unique and responsible; no HFT, tick scalping, arbitrage, feed abuse or mass-shared strategies.

Upcomers' general VPN/VPS and identity-verification rules apply.

Allowed within the same account; coordinating opposite positions across accounts or people to bypass rules is prohibited.

Trades under 12 seconds count as microscalping and cannot exceed 50% of trades or profit. Tick scalping is forbidden.

Normal scalping is allowed; tick scalping and latency exploitation are prohibited.

Contract limit by account size, in minis or micros.

Hard maximum loss of 1.5% of account size per open trade. Positions in the same instrument and direction count as one trade.

Only between your own Midgard accounts. Copying other traders or signal services is forbidden.

Allowed between your own accounts; prohibited between different people.

Free on the Trial. Once funded, stay flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after NFP, CPI and FOMC; other news is free.

At least one trade every 28 days, counted from purchase or the last reset. Otherwise the account is closed with no refund; they email about 5 days before.

Automatic closure after 14 calendar days without closing a trade; the clock starts at purchase and resets with every closed trade.

40% on the Trial only: the best day cannot exceed 40% of profit. You need the target or the best day divided by 0.4, whichever is higher. None once funded.

Best Day Rule checked at payout; it does not breach the account. Thunderbolt: 35% (20% on accounts bought before 29 October 2026). Vanguard: 20%. Horizon and Apex: no consistency rule.

Open positions close automatically at 4:50 PM ET every trading day, Friday included.

• Bots, AI or mass order entry
• One- or two-tick tick scalping
• Exploiting simulated fills: rapid-fire orders, gaps, slippage-free stops, tight brackets and auto-breakeven
• Latency arbitrage or price errors
• Hedging across accounts and opposite positions in correlated products (NQ and MNQ)
• Martingale or averaging down
• Copying other traders or trading for others
• VPN, proxy or an external or slow data feed

HFT, tick scalping, arbitrage or latency abuse, feed/price abuse, mass-shared strategies, martingale, account rolling and any practice designed to exploit the simulated environment.

Everything is flattened automatically at 4:45 PM ET and you stay flat until the 6:00 PM ET reopen.

Open positions close automatically at 4:50 PM ET, before the daily break.