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Dubai, TradingHive Technologies Ltd. office
85 Great Portland Street, London, England W1W 7LT, GB
Thomas Heinfart
Faizan Anees
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
2024
Passing a challenge earns a 200% fee reward in Hive Coins, not a cash refund; coins cover up to 50% of future purchases. Failed evaluations are not refunded. Cash refunds are considered only under the terms.
Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout
Ethereum gas is paid by the trader; ETH is required in the wallet.
Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested
On demand through a smart contract, with verified A Book profits, no open positions and after covering A Book losses and outstanding fees. PFP debt may also be deducted from other funded accounts. Trading resumes at 00:00 UTC after a withdrawal.
- By default: Biweekly
- With add-on (+25%): Weekly
- Bolt: Biweekly by default; On-Demand Payouts with add-on (+25%)
Daily limit per ERC20 address: USD 1,000 on Classic and PFP; USD 2,000 on InstantGrowth. Resets at 00:00 UTC. Accounts sharing an address share the cap; excess profit remains available on following days.
USD 50, paid in USDC on Ethereum ERC20.
$100
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Dynamic by exposure. Classic: NewBee up to 1:50, WorkerBee 1:100 and QueenBee 1:200. PFP: evaluation up to 1:50; funded Low/Moderate/Medium/High up to 1:200/1:100/1:50/1:30. InstantGrowth up to 1:50. Decreases in tiers as exposure increases.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 30:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 100:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
Gold: dynamic by exposure, up to 1:30 on NewBee, PFP evaluation and InstantGrowth; up to 1:50 on WorkerBee and QueenBee. Higher exposure tiers reduce leverage.
- 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
All accounts are swap free.
Golden Tower begins with demo verification; AADS applies from level 2.
One phase Pay From Profits.
InstantGrowth: 10 levels up to USD 1,000,000, with a 6% target per level. Scaling is paid from profits; capital doubles through level 5 and then grows in tiers. Only the entry level is directly purchasable. Classic unlocks WorkerBee after NewBee and QueenBee after WorkerBee.
- 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.
Classic and two phase Pay From Profits.
Static and balance based; floating or realized losses can trigger a breach. Funded PFP: Low 5%, Moderate 6%, Medium 7% and High 10%. AADS closes positions and switches to B Book at a 1% loss below initial balance; recover initial balance and reactivate in the dashboard to return to A Book. B Book profit is not withdrawable. A cumulative A Book loss limit also follows the account daily limit; on InstantGrowth it is 6%.
- 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
Calculated from the previous closing balance and reset at 00:00 UTC. Funded PFP depends on risk group: Low 2%, Moderate 3%, Medium 4% and High 5%.
- 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
Up to 6 active InstantGrowth accounts. Anonymous Web3 access permits one identity per user, device, household and network; it may hold multiple challenges.
No maximum phase completion time. PFP: 14 days to pay the next phase or activate funding; activation may receive one extension of up to 30 additional days with approval.
Unlimited
Hive Coins are internal utility rewards with no guaranteed monetary value. They may be issued for passed challenge fees or for B Book profit net of A Book losses when an account closes.
Classic and PFP: 3 profitable days per phase, each earning at least 1% of initial balance while balance is at or above the initial balance. None on funded accounts or InstantGrowth.
- Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step: 3 days minimum (0.5% profit each)
- Bolt: No minimum profitable trading days
- 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: 80%
- With add-on (+25%): 90%
- Bolt: 90% with scaling
- MetaTrader 5: $300,000
- ThinkTrader: $600,000
- Bolt with scaling: $500,000
- 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
EAs are allowed; no HFT, latency arbitrage, error exploitation or abusive automation.
Netting accounts offset opposite orders in the same symbol. Cross account hedging is prohibited.
PFP Low: stop at opening and closing, with up to 20 seconds to place it. Moderate: stop before closing. Medium, High, Classic and InstantGrowth: no general requirement. An accidental position fully closed within 10 seconds does not by itself change risk group.
No minimum holding time under the current terms; no tick scalping or HFT.
Partial entries are allowed; all positions with the same instrument and trading intent count as a single trade for combined risk assessment.
Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously
Prohibited on InstantGrowth. Other plans remain subject to risk limits and restrictions on excessively speculative strategies.
Per trade: Classic and PFP evaluation 3%; InstantGrowth 2%. Funded PFP Low/Moderate/Medium/High: 1%/1.5%/2%/3% of opening balance. Exceeding the assigned group pauses funding and closes positions; resuming requires paying the fee difference for the new group.
Own account copying is allowed during evaluation only. Prohibited on funded accounts, including your own. While one funded account holds an asset, other funded accounts of the same user or network cannot open that asset in either direction.
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.
Trading through news is allowed. Bracketing high impact news with nearby buy and sell stops is prohibited.
- 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.
The account may be terminated after 3 consecutive months of inactivity.
30 days
Allowed during evaluations; prohibited on funded accounts.
Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: allowed. Bolt: requires the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%).
Arbitrage, latency exploitation, tick scalping, HFT, hedge/reverse arbitrage, news bracketing, error or slow feed exploitation, third party account management, account sharing and resale. InstantGrowth prohibits martingale and grid.
- 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


















