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Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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

Jakub Rož

Jakub Zeliska

Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.

No traditional refund. No activation fee after passing Fast/Fast Pro.

• Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
• Rise $500 or more: $50

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 Fast: on-demand (after 5 profitable days and offsetting trailing drawdown)
• Futures Instant: on-demand (after 7 profitable days)
• Futures Fast Pro: on-demand (after 1 profitable day, balance > $52K)

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%.

48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split

• Minimum: $100 in wallet
• Maximum per cycle by product:
  · Futures Fast 25K: $800
  · Futures Fast 50K: $1,500
  · Futures Fast 100K: $2,500
  · Futures Instant 25K: $1,500
  · Futures Instant 50K: $3,000
  · Futures Instant 100K: $4,500
  · Futures Fast Pro 50K: $250-$1,200 per cycle, final $10,000 (max 5 withdrawals)

USD 100.

Futures accounts are simulated (sim-funded).

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.

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.

Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.

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.

Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.

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

• Futures Fast: $1,000 (25K) / $2,000 (50K) / $2,500 (100K), trailing
• Futures Fast Pro: $2,000 EOD trailing (50K)
• Futures Instant: 5% EOD trailing

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.

All futures products: 80%

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.

• Futures Fast: none
• Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
• Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity

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.

$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.

No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.

No time limit on any futures account.

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

• Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
• Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
• Futures Instant: 7 profitable days

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.

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.

Cross-account hedging is forbidden.

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

Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.

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

Martingale strategies are forbidden.

Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).

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

Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.

Allowed between your own accounts; prohibited between different people.

News trading allowed without restrictions on Futures accounts.

• Futures Fast Challenge: 7 days
• Futures Fast Master: 14 days
• Futures Fast Pro Challenge: 7 days / Master: 14 days
• Futures Instant: 7 days

Days counted from the moment a position is CLOSED, not opened. Minimal 0.01-lot trades to game the rule don't count.

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

• Futures Fast Challenge: best day's profit must be < 40% of total accumulated profit. No consistency target on Master.
• Futures Fast Pro Challenge: same 40% rule.
• Futures Instant: best day cannot exceed 15% of total profit.
• Calculation: Best Day Profit / 0.40 = Minimum required total profit.

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.

Weekend holds are unrestricted.

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

• Arbitrage (latency, reverse, statistical)
• HFT
• Tick scalping (under 5 seconds)
• Fully autonomous bots/EAs
• Cross-account hedging
• Gambling behaviors
• Martingale
• Inbound copy trading and signal services
• Group/signal trading from Telegram, Discord etc.

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.

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