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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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

Jakub Zeliska

Saint Lucia

United Arab Emirates

2026

2023

No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.

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.

Futures accounts are simulated (sim-funded).

On demand, as soon as the conditions are met.

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%.

No guaranteed time: the payout policy neither promises nor estimates one. Every request gets an automatic receipt and every payout a verifiable certificate.

Before the split. One Step 25K/50K/100K/150K: $1,000/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 on the first payout and $1,500/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 after. Instant: $1,000/$2,000/$3,000/$4,000 on every payout. The rest rolls into the next one.

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.

$500 before the split. Crypto payouts: at least $100.

USD 100.

Every position closed. Funded One Step: balance above the buffer plus 1% of the starting balance, 3 profitable days (+0.25%) and the 40% rule. Instant: a profit milestone before each payout ($1,450, $3,000, $5,000 or $8,000 on 25K, 50K, 100K or 150K), 5 profitable days and the 20% rule.

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.

One Step: after an evaluation breach, a restart within 14 days at the same price. Funded One Step: a reset within 14 days, at most twice and before the first payout. Instant: no reset; a new account at a reduced price is offered for 3 days.

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

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.

One Step: end-of-day trailing, rising with the closing balance. Instant: intraday trailing on peak equity, open profit included. Both lock once they reach the starting balance. Touching it ends the account.

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.

90% on both plans.

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.

Soft limit: reaching it closes positions and stops trading until the next session; the account stays open. One Step 25K has none.

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.

$1.5M per person across all CFD and futures accounts.

Funded One Step: a buffer equal to the max loss that stays on the account and is never paid out. Instant has none.

One user per person, with as many accounts as the $1.5M limit allows. Up to 5 accounts per order, with a 10% to 25% bundle discount.

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

No time limit.

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

No minimum in the evaluation: it can be passed in one day.

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.

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.

Before each payout: 3 days at +0.25% of the starting balance on funded One Step and 5 on Instant. The evaluation needs 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-off fee. Includes 30 days of market data; then $35 per 30 days ($540 a month for professional subscribers).

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

No EAs or automated trading on futures.

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

Hiding your location with a VPN, proxy or remote desktop is prohibited and triggers a new identity check. Your own EA on a VPS is allowed if disclosed.

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

Within one account, yes (mini against micro or different contracts). Prohibited across accounts.

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

Yes, but trades under 30 seconds may make at most 50% of profit; until it is back under, no pass or payout.

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

Allowed when used responsibly within the contract and loss limits; aggressive sequences are reviewed.

A cap on contracts open at once; exceeding it once is a warning, the second time goes to review.

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 futures accounts or from your own master account. Copying others or signals is prohibited.

Allowed between your own accounts; prohibited between different people.

Free during the One Step evaluation. Funded and on Instant, no trade may be opened or closed 2 minutes either side of red USD news: profit from those trades is removed. Two warnings; the third goes to review.

15 days without trading deactivates the account; an open position does not count.

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

No day may exceed 40% of the cycle's profit on funded One Step (none in the evaluation) or 20% on Instant. Until met, the payout waits.

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.

Hedging across accounts, latency or cross-market arbitrage, account or device sharing, coordinated trading, copying others, market or order-queue manipulation, volume inflation, filler trades to count days, HFT, strategies that cannot work in a live market, gambling and account rolling, straddling tier-1 news and gap trading.

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 closed at 3:55 PM Chicago time every session; it is not a breach.

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