Upcomers rules explained

The rules that actually end accounts

Prop firm accounts rarely die from a bad thesis. They die from a drawdown limit hit at the wrong moment. These are the Upcomers limits, by plan.

Daily versus maximum drawdown

Daily drawdown resets each trading day and caps how much you can lose within one session. Oracle and Vanguard both set this at 4%. Ember removes it entirely, which is the single most distinctive thing about the plan lineup: one catastrophic session cannot close an Ember account as long as you stay inside the overall limit.

Maximum drawdown is the floor for the account's whole life. Oracle allows 5%, Ember 4%, Vanguard 7%. Vanguard buys the widest total buffer at the cost of keeping a daily limit and needing an extra minimum trading day.

Minimum trading days

Five days on Oracle and Ember, six on Vanguard. Hitting the profit target on day one does not finish the evaluation. You still have to trade the minimum number of days, so plan for it rather than being surprised by it.

No time limit

Every plan runs unlimited. There is no 30-day clock, which removes the single biggest driver of bad decisions in evaluations. It also means every failure is a rule breach rather than an expiry, so the drawdown numbers above are the only thing standing between you and a funded account.

Automated strategies

Expert advisors, custom scripts and AI trading agents are permitted. This is worth checking against the current terms before you deploy anything, because automation clauses are the rules prop firms revise most often, usually to ban latency arbitrage and mass-copied commercial bots rather than a personally operated strategy.