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Innovation One Building, Level 2, DIFC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
85 Great Portland Street, London, England W1W 7LT, GB
Oliver Newland
Faizan Anees
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
2021
2024
Full refund if profitable 30 days after funding.
Solo FX: The Dashboard and launch announcement say the fee is refunded after 30 funded days if the account is profitable. Schedule 10A-1 says it is refunded upon approval of the first Reward Payment Request. Finotive's Terms state that the Schedule prevails; confirm with support before purchase.
Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout
Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested
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First payout on demand
- Standard Challenge, Pro Challenge and Instant Standard: 7 days
- Instant Lite: 14 days
- Solo FX: weekly payouts; first request after 14 calendar days in Simulated Funded Status
- By default: Biweekly
- With add-on (+25%): Weekly
- Bolt: Biweekly by default; On-Demand Payouts with add-on (+25%)
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$100
- 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 100:1
- 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 50:1
- Instant Standard: 33:1
- Instant Lite: 25:1
- Solo FX: 33:1
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 30:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 100:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 20:1
- 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 10:1
- Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 5:1
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 10:1
- 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro, Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 5:1
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 5:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 5:1
- 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 4:1
- Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 2:1
- 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 2:1
- 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro, Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 1:1
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- 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
Funded Stage Refresh
- A refresh can only be requested when your account balance is within 10% of the Maximum Drawdown limit
- Resets your account balance back to the original starting equity
- Preserves your profit split rate and any progress made in the Scaling Plan
- There is a maximum of 3 refreshes per funded account
- The price depends on the size of the account
- Swap Free (price depends on the size of the account)
- Weekend Holding for Instant Accounts (20% of account fee)
- 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
- Standard Challenge
- Pro Challenge
Every 90 days, traders who meet performance and consistency targets see their account balance grow by 30% and their profit split increase by 5%, without ever having to sacrifice withdrawals.
- 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.
- Standard Challenge
- Pro Challenge
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
- Standard Challenge: 80% (up to 95% scaling)
- Pro Challenge: 100%
- Instant Standard: 75% (up to 90%)
- Instant Lite: 70% (up to 85%)
- Standard: 80%
- With add-on (+25%): 90%
- Bolt: 90% with scaling
Balance-based
- 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
- Challenge Accounts (Standard): Up to $600,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $2,040,000
- Pro Challenge Accounts: Up to $600,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $2,040,000
- Instant Funding (Standard): Up to $200,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $680,000
- Instant Funding Lite: Up to $200,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $680,000
- MetaTrader 5: $300,000
- ThinkTrader: $600,000
- Bolt with scaling: $500,000
Unlimited
Minimum profitable days number must be met every time a trader wants to pass an evaluation phase, scale a funded account or request a payout. A day is considered profitable when it reaches at least 0.5% profit
- Challenge 1 Step: 3 days
- Challenge 2 Step: 2 days
- Instant Standard: 0 days
- Instant Lite: 5 days
- Finotive Pro 1 Step: 3 days
- Finotive Pro 2 Step: 2 days
- Solo FX: 4 days with at least 0.5% 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
- Solo FX: all Expert Advisors and automated execution tools are prohibited
- Other programmes: pre-purchased or mass-market “plug-and-play” EAs are not allowed
- Solo FX: VPNs, proxies and location masking are prohibited
- Other programmes: Finotive's Terms prohibit masked or unstable connections when they impair verification of identity, location or account control
- Solo FX: stop loss is not required
- Other programmes: stop loss is required
Solo FX has no specific scalping, rapid-trade-opening, trades-under-60-seconds or HFT restriction. Latency arbitrage and execution abuse remain prohibited.
Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously
Floating drawdown is calculated per symbol against the initial account balance.
- Instant Funding: 1.5%. The first confirmed breach produces a formal warning. From the second confirmed breach onward, each separate event records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
- Funded Challenge and Funded Pro: 2%. Each confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
- Challenge and Pro evaluation phases: 2%. It is monitored for the progression report but does not trigger a real-time strike or account closure.
- Solo FX: 2.5% during Simulated Funded Status only. A confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
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.
News trading is allowed. For Solo FX, the Dashboard and launch announcement prohibit news straddling, but Schedule 10A-1 disapplies the Terms section that prohibits it. Confirm this contradiction with Finotive before trading news.
- 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.
30 days
30 days
Pro accounts — from the 31st funded day
- Weekly trade count and instrument volume must remain within ±25% of the averages recorded during the Pro Challenge and the first 30 funded days.
- During every rolling 90-day period, realised and unrealised profit, including rewards already paid, must total at least 5% of the initial balance.
- Breaching either condition downgrades the account to the equivalent standard funded account and permanently removes the Pro benefits.
Instant Funding Standard and Lite
- At payout, the single most profitable closed trade must contribute less than 60% of total positive realised profit. Requesting a payout while the condition remains active records one Conditional Strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
Solo FX
- No specific consistency rule or single-trade profit dependency.
Weekend holding is available through the optional Weekend Holding Add-On on Instant Funding accounts. Without it, all non-crypto positions must be closed before Friday's 17:00 New York market close; Finotive recommends closing at least 10 minutes earlier. Each confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%. Five cumulative strikes permanently close the account.
Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: allowed. Bolt: requires the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%).
- Excessive notional volume (not applicable to Solo FX; its exposure is governed by 1:33 margin)
- High-frequency stacking, including correlated instruments (not a Solo FX-specific restriction; latency arbitrage and execution abuse remain prohibited)
- Martingale or grid strategies
- News straddling (the Solo FX dashboard and announcement prohibit it, but Schedule 10A-1 disapplies section 7.9; confirm with support)
- Using ultra-tight stops just to mask oversized lots
- 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

















