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Office 219, Vakson Commercial Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, Umm Al Sheif

85 Great Portland Street, London, England W1W 7LT, GB

Nick Cooke

Faizan Anees

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

Refunds available only if you have NOT received or used the trading account, or in case of duplicate payments / technical issues that prevented account delivery. Once trading begins, fees are non-refundable. Refunds are processed within 5-10 business days (card) or 24-48h (crypto).

Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout

Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested

100%

• 1 Step Plus: First payout on demand, next every 14 days
• Instant, Nova: On Demand
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus: Every 14 days

• By default: Biweekly
• With add-on (+25%): Weekly
• Bolt: Biweekly by default; On-Demand Payouts with add-on (+25%)

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 30:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 100:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 5:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 1:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 1:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Profit Split 90% (+25%)
• Weekly payout (+25%; not available on Bolt)
• Allows News Trading (+25%)
• Bolt: On-Demand Payouts (+25%)
• Bolt: Weekend Holding (+15%), permits weekend holding and trading

• Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: Traders become eligible after reaching a minimum profit of 10% within three months, equivalent to an average monthly gain of around 3.33%. Each approved phase increases the original demo account balance by 20%, up to $1 million on MetaTrader 5 or $1.5 million on ThinkTrader. Assessments take place every three months and require three payouts during each cycle.
• Bolt: Reach 10% total profit across four payouts within two months. Each approved scaling phase increases the account balance by 25%, up to $500,000.

• 1 Step Standard, Instant: Trailing, locks at initial balance and finally at payout
• 1 Step Plus: Trailing, locks at initial balance but resets at payout
• 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus: Static
• Nova: 8% max overall loss (static)

• Lightning: 6% trailing, locks at initial balance once it grows by 6%
• Bolt: 6% trailing equity, locks at initial balance after the first payout
• Dual Step Intraday: 7% static
• Dual Step Swing: 7% static
• Nexus: 8% static

80% by default, scaling up to 90% for consistent performers

• Standard: 80%
• With add-on (+25%): 90%
• Bolt: 90% with scaling

• General: Based on highest value between equity and balance
• Nova: 4% daily drawdown

• Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing, Bolt: 3% Balance-based (Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing) / 3% Equity-based (Bolt, Dual Step Intraday)
• All accounts: Soft breach, account disabled for the day, resumes next day at 00:00 MT5 Server Time

• MetaTrader 5: $300,000
• ThinkTrader: $600,000
• Bolt with scaling: $500,000

No limit

Unlimited

• Nova (challenge): 0 days
• Nova (funded): 7 minimum profitable trading days

• 1 Step, 2 Step: 3 days with 0.5% profit or more
• Instant: 0 days
• Nova (challenge): 0 days
• Nova (funded): 7 days with at least 0.5% of initial balance each

• Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step: 3 days minimum (0.5% profit each)
• Bolt: No minimum profitable trading days

• Standard: Bi-weekly (14 days)
• With add-on (+25%): Weekly (7 days)
• Bolt: Bi-weekly (14 days); On-Demand Payouts add-on (+25%) available

• All programs except Bolt: No consistency rule
• Bolt: 20% best day cap

Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously

Only allow between Atmos Funded Accounts

Traders may use copy trading across multiple Think Capital accounts. That said, copying trades from personal accounts or from accounts with other proprietary firms is not allowed.

If you wish to copy trades between different prop firm accounts, your Think Capital account must be set as the primary (master) account.

Not allowed ±2 minutes from high-impact events

• Dual Step (Swing): Allowed by default
• Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step (Intraday): Only allowed with add-on
• Bolt: Not allowed

Rule for products where news trading requires the add-on:

• No trades, including limit and stop orders, may be executed 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after a high-impact news event (total of 4 minutes).
• Any activity during this 4-minute window will result in immediate termination of the funded agreement, account cancellation, and forfeiture of any profits.

90 days

30 days

• 1 Step Plus: No single day >45% of total profit (funded phase)
• Instant: No single day >20% of total profit (funded phase)
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus, Nova: No rule

Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: allowed. Bolt: requires the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%).

• Allocate too large of your equity or margin to a single open position
• Latency arbitrage (price feed abuse)
• High-frequency trading bots that overload execution
• Tick scalping / toxic flow that manipulates fills
• Hedging across accounts
• Group Trading / Account Management Abuse
• Platform / Price-Feed Manipulation
• Account Sharing / Identity Misuse
• All-In (Gambling)

• Copy Trading
• Grid (Reverse) Trading
• Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
• Collusion Between Users
• Account Sharing, Account Management, or Account Sale
• Latency Arbitrage
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Abuse of a Delayed Data Feed
• Abuse of the Simulated Environment
• Trading on Delayed Charts
• Utilization of Expert Advisors
• Challenge Passing Services
• Martingale Trading
• Use of Guarantee of Compliance with Limit Orders
• Trading in Sanctioned Countries
• Trading Activity: Soft Breaches/Warnings
• Use of Platform or Data Freezing Due to Technical Errors
• News Trading
• Order Layering
• Gambling/Punting