Goals
Profit Target: Reach a 9% profit on your account balance. All positions must be closed.
Minimum Trading Days: 2 (for $400,000 and $500,000 accounts: 4).
Requirements
Daily Drawdown: 4%
Maximum daily loss within a 24-hour period.
Trailing Drawdown: 6%
Follows your account’s equity high-water mark (HWM).
How a Trading Day Counts
A trading day is counted only if all of the following conditions are met:
The sum of the trader’s net profits (and losses) from closed trades during the day must be greater than 1% of the initial account balance (e.g. $1,000 on a $100,000 account).
Only closed trades are taken into account.
Open trades not closed during the day do not count toward the net profit.
The daily profit is calculated as the total net PnL from all closed trades executed within that day.
Time Zone
All days are calculated using the UTC timezone.
Each trading day starts and ends at 00:00 UTC.
If trades are opened before midnight and closed after midnight (UTC), they count for the next day.
Rules in the Funded Phase – Thunderbolt Accounts
Once traders pass the Thunderbolt 1-Phase Challenge and reach the funded phase, the same daily drawdown (4%) and trailing drawdown (6%) rules from the Challenge continue to apply without any change.
In addition, the following rules are enforced to ensure disciplined and sustainable trading:
30% Best Day Rule (Consistency Rule)
To be eligible for a payout, no single trading day can represent more than 30% of your total profits.
This rule does not breach your account if exceeded, but it will delay your payout until your profit distribution becomes more balanced.
Trying to bypass the Best Day Rule by intentionally splitting a large winning position, either by hedging or closing parts of it separately, is not allowed. In such cases, the entire profit from that trade may be counted as if it was closed on a single day.
3% Rule
To manage risk effectively in the funded phase, traders must not lose more than 3% of their account balance in a single trade.
Single Trade Limit: 3% of your initial funded account balance.
Splitting trades into multiple positions does not bypass this rule - they are counted as one trade.
Violating this rule is a hard breach and will lead to account termination.
Example:
On a $100,000 account, the maximum loss allowed on any single trade is $3,000.
Payout Threshold Rule
To be eligible for a payout, your share of the net profit must exceed 20% of your daily drawdown limit.
This rule ensures that payouts come from solid performance, encouraging traders to aim for quality over quantity. Long-term success is built on disciplined execution.
Example:
If you’re trading a $100,000 account with a 4% daily drawdown, the minimum profit required for a payout is greater than $800 - so you’d need at least $801.
Additional Bonus - 15% Profit Split from the Challenge Phase:
To qualify for the 15% Profit Share bonus, you must achieve at least 20% cumulative growth in your Upcomers funded account. Once you hit that milestone, you will receive 15% of the profit you earned during the Challenge Phase, in addition to your standard payout.
Drawdown Rules
Daily drawdown and trailing drawdown limits are enforced in the funded phase exactly as they were during the Thunderbolt Challenge.
Both limits must be respected at all times.
Breaching these limits results in an immediate loss of the funded account.