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Upcomers logoUpcomers
Headquarters

The Sotheby Building, Ground Floor, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, SW18 1TA, St. Lucia

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

Country

St. Lucia

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2023

2023

Banned Countries
Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, North Korea, Libya, Vietnam
Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestine, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela
CEO

Jakub Zeliska

Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Stocks, Crypto
Brokers

Liquidity Providers

Royal Flow - FZCO
Refund
✓
✓
Platforms
MatchTrader, cTrader, TradeLocker, Volumetrica, MetaTrader5
TradeLocker, Metatrader 5, MatchTrader, cTrader, DX
Payout Methods
Transfer, Rise, Crypto
Crypto, Transfer
Payment Methods
ApplePay, Korapay, Card, GooglePay, PayPal, Crypto, Skrill, IMPS
Card, Crypto, PayPal, ApplePay, GooglePay
Payout Frequency
  • Biweekly
  • Evaluation accounts can be purchased with an add-on to get the first payout On Demand with 40% profit split
  • Standard Instant Funding have 'Triple payday' rewards, allowing traders to withdraw profits every 10 days.
  • Instant Premium: every 10 days
  • Instant HERO: every 14 days
  • 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.
  • 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 6 trading days per payout (each ≥0.5% profit).
Payout Guarantee

If the payout takes longer than promised (2 business days), the trader automatically receives an extra $500 reward, guarantee.

Crypto Weekend Trading
✓
✓
Maximum Withdrawal

For the first two reward requests, traders can withdraw a maximum of 6% of the initial account balance.

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.
Minimum Withdrawal

$100

Payout Fee
  • 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).
Demo Account
Metatrader 5
ID:1293766
Password:Upcomers1.
Server:Upcomers-Server
Forex
  • Evaluation phases: 100:1
  • Funded phase: 50:1
100:1
Metals
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
30:1
Energies
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
30:1
Indices
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
30:1
Stocks
  • Evaluation phases: 5:1
  • Funded phase: 5:1
30:1
Crypto
  • Evaluation phases: 2:1
  • Funded phase: 2:1
30:1
Forex
5 / lot
5 / lot
Metals
5 / lot
5 / lot
Energies
0
0
Indices
0
0
Stocks
0
0
Crypto
0
0.04%
Swap Free
✓
Account Reset

If you don’t complete a challenge, you can restart it at any time with a 12% discount. You’ll also get a single-use coupon that gives you 10% off any program.

Reset: buy a Reset to continue from the phase where you breached instead of starting over — it issues a new account at that phase (Funded reset gives a new Funded account, no re-evaluation). Available any time, or within 14 days of a breach. Each phase can be reset once. Price is a % of the original Challenge: Phase 1 −7%; Phase 2 +45–50%; Phase 3 +80%; Funded +50–175% (Instant: −7%).

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.

Add-ons
✓
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Instant
✓
✓
One Step
✓
✓
Account scaling
✓
✓
Two Steps
✓
✓
Max Drawdown
  • 1-Step, 2-Step, 3-Step: Static
  • Instant Funding: Trailing
  • Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward

Current CFD programs use three systems:

  • Dynamic Risk Shield™: 6% on Ash and Thunderbolt, 7% 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, Ignite Classic and Ignite Turbo; 10% on Phoenix Legacy; 7% on Surge. The floor is fixed from the initial balance.
  • Nonstop Dynamic Risk Shield™: 3% on Supernova and Hypernova; 2% on Ultranova. It trails continuously and never locks.
    Percentages and behavior are shown per phase in the challenge catalogue.
Profit Split

Profit split varies by product; see challenges. Add-ons may offer a higher split.

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.

Free Trial
✗
✓
dailyDrawdown

Most models: highest balance or equity recorded at end of day (EOD high-watermark).

  • Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 PM EST.

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, Ignite Classic/Turbo and Surge: 4%
  • Phoenix Legacy: 5%
  • Vanguard and Oracle: 4%
  • Supernova and Hypernova: 2%
  • Ember and Ultranova: no daily drawdown
Three Steps
✓
✓
Max Allocation

$400,000 on every country except Pakistan, where the maximum is $50,000

1,500,000
Merge Accounts
✓
✗
Maximum Trading Days

Unlimited

Classic, Legacy and non-Turbo Limited Drop challenges have no time limit. Ash Turbo, Thunderbolt Turbo and Ignite Turbo have 30 calendar days and a maximum of 7 trading days. Timed Instant Funding sessions last 24 hours on Supernova, 4 hours on Hypernova and 1 hour on Ultranova.

Minimum Trading Days

Instant HERO: 6 non-consecutive valid trading days before payout, with at least 0.5% profit each.

No minimum trading days to pass the challenge in any Classic, Turbo or Limited Drop (Ignite/Surge) program. Turbo challenges require only 1 trading day with real activity. Minimums apply only at the payout stage — see 'minimumProfitableDays'.

Points Reward Program

The GOAT Points Program rewards traders for both purchases and trading activities:

  • You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and can gain additional points by completing trading tasks.
  • Points are credited instantly and can be tracked in your Trader Dashboard. You can redeem them for valuable perks such as free accounts, extra leverage, increased drawdown, and account size boosts.
  • There's no limit to how many points you can earn, and all GFT traders are automatically enrolled.
Monthly Competition
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✗
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
  • 5 days with 0.5% profit on all Instant Funding accounts
  • Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)

Payout eligibility requirements (a valid day has at least 0.5% realized profit):

  • Vanguard: 6 valid days
  • Oracle, Ember, Phoenix Legacy, Ignite Classic, Surge, Ash Turbo, Thunderbolt Turbo and Ignite Turbo: 5 valid days
  • Ash Classic, Thunderbolt Classic and Phoenix Classic: no valid-day minimum
  • Supernova and Hypernova: at least 7 trades in the timed session
  • Ultranova: at least 5 trades in the timed session
    The counter resets after each successful payout.
Expert Advisor (EA)
✓
✗
VPN
✗
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Hedging
✗
✗
Requires Stop Loss
✗
✗
Scalping
✓
✓
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
✓
✓
Maximum Risk Limit
✓
✓
Copy Trading
~
✗
News Trading
~
✓
hasInactivityRule

30 Days

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

Consistency Rule
✓
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Hold Weekend
✓
✓
Prohibited Strategies
  • All or nothing
  • Exploit broker/platform errors
  • Use insider/non-public info
  • Front-run other trades
  • Excessively risky strategies
  • Hedging across accounts
  • Third-party EAs/strategies
  • Switch strategies post-assessment
  • Martingale/grid strategies banned
  • Expert Advisors (EAs), bots, emulators or automated trading of any kind (even partial automation of entries, exits, SL/TP management or trade copying). Indicators used for analysis are allowed.
  • Tick scalping (trades held under 2 minutes on Oracle/Supernova/Hypernova) and high-frequency trading (HFT).
  • Martingale, grid trading, one-sided bets, reverse trading and group hedging.
  • News straddling (bracket orders placed around economic releases).
  • Signal services and copy trading from external sources.
  • 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.

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