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L1, Shaw House, 201 Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O

1-13(A), First Floor, Paragon, Jalan Tun Mustapha, 87009 Labuan

Somesh Kapuria

Peter Brown y David Bhidey

Hong Kong

Malaysia

2024

2023

Pro and Prime: 100% of the fee paid is refunded with the fourth successful payout from the same account, not available on Direct. Cancellation refunds must be requested within 14 days without any trading activity.

1, 2 and 3 Phase purchase fees can be reimbursed with the first payout on request. 2 Phase Pro does not include a fee refund alongside withdrawals.

2.5% per payout. Minimum fee: USD 25 for bank wire or Rise; USD 5 for crypto.

Pro and Prime: on-demand, biweekly or monthly cycle selected at purchase; it cannot be changed later. Direct: every 14 days from the first trade in the cycle. After a payout, a new trade starts the next cycle.

• 1, 2 and 3 Phase: first payout on demand after the minimum trading days; then monthly, or bi-weekly with add-on.
• 2 Phase Classic: 14 or 30 days depending on payout configuration.
• 2 Phase Pro: withdrawals every 10 days after meeting the payout criteria.
• Instant Funding: instant/regular payout structure according to the instant account rules.
• Lightning: first payout criteria are plan-specific, then every 14 days.

Processing within one hour of an eligible request, following a prior review of up to 24 business hours. Business days only; additional verification or incomplete details may cause delays.

Bank wire or crypto: USD 50. Rise: USD 500. Thresholds apply to the trader share, excluding the firm share.

$50

Plan-specific. 2 Phase Pro caps the first two withdrawals at 5% of initial balance or $8,000, then has no cap.

Pro: 100:1. Prime and Direct: 50:1. Exotic pairs: Pro 10:1; Prime and Direct 5:1.

Standard leverage is 30:1. Eligible traders can increase leverage to 50:1 at checkout for FX.

Pro: 20:1. Prime and Direct: 10:1.

Gold and metals follow the 30:1 standard structure, with eligible checkout upgrade to 50:1 for Gold and Silver. 2 Phase Pro lists Forex & Gold at 30:1.

Commodities: Pro 5:1; Prime and Direct 2:1.

Oil leverage is 5:1 on 2 Phase Pro.

Pro: 20:1. Prime: 10:1. Direct: 5:1.

Indices leverage is 10:1 on 2 Phase Pro.

Pro: 2:1. Prime and Direct: 1:1.

Stocks leverage is 2:1 on 2 Phase Pro.

All-In feed is commission-free for FX, metals and indices; stock CFDs carry 0.35% round-turn. Raw feed has tighter spreads and $6/lot on FX, indices and metals.

Optional at purchase for all Forex accounts; pricing is listed under Add-ons.

After a hard breach a new evaluation or account can be purchased.

Plan-specific. 2 Phase Pro does not offer resets or retries; traders must purchase another challenge.

Swap-free: +10% of the base fee before discounts. EA Trading: +10%, MT5 only and unavailable on Direct. cTrader: USD 20 fixed surcharge where available. Alternative payout cycles have different configurator prices; the table shows the base option.

Eligible accounts can use checkout customizations such as increased leverage, increased performance split, bi-weekly payouts and Performance Protect. 2 Phase Pro has no add-ons.

Direct Account provides funded access without an evaluation phase.

1-Step Prime Challenge.

One Phase and Lightning are one-step style programs.

Four-month cycles from the first trade: at least 10% net profit, two profitable months, two payouts and a positive balance. Manual request required. Increases based on the original balance: 25% first, 40% second and 50% from the third, up to USD 4 million per user. Loss limits are recalculated on the scaled balance. Unavailable during PCP.

Scaling is available on eligible standard programs, but Instant Funding, Lightning and 2 Phase Pro are excluded.

Available as 2-Step Pro Challenge and 2-Step Prime Challenge.

• Two Phase Classic: static drawdown
• Two Phase Standard: trailing drawdown
• Two Phase Pro: static drawdown, no add-ons and no scaling

Pro and Prime: static floor based on the initial balance, also monitored against floating equity. Direct: trails the highest end-of-day balance, only moves upward and locks at the starting balance after the full drawdown distance is earned. A payout does not lower that floor.

• 1 Phase: trailing drawdown that locks at starting balance.
• 2 Phase Classic and 3 Phase: static drawdown.
• 2 Phase Standard: trailing drawdown.
• 2 Phase Pro: static 8% drawdown based on initial balance.
• Lightning: plan-specific drawdown rules.

The table shows the base biweekly 80% option. Pro and Prime also offer on-demand 80% and monthly 95% with an advertised 20% surcharge; Direct offers a separately priced biweekly 90% variant. The cycle is selected at purchase and cannot be changed later.

Up to 90% on most eligible accounts through add-ons. Two Phase Classic page shows up to 100%. Educational Course and some special programs may differ.

A hard breach forfeits profits and pending payouts. Forex daily-loss-only exception: profits may still be paid if every trade had a stop loss and no trade exceeded 1% of the initial balance in profit or loss.

Performance Protect is an optional add-on on eligible accounts. It allows traders with remaining gains to request a payout after a drawdown breach, based on the agreed performance split. It is not available on 2 Phase Pro.

Calculated from the previous day closing balance and includes realized and floating results. Resets at 17:00 EST as stated by Hola Prime. Breaching it is a hard breach.

Daily loss is generally calculated from the previous day's 5 PM EST balance. 2 Phase Pro uses a 4% daily drawdown and treats a daily loss breach as a hard breach.

Standard combined allocation across sim funded and Direct accounts: USD 400,000 per trader or strategy. USD 90,000 cap for Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Israel, Thailand, Botswana, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Jamaica and Mozambique. Combined Forex and Futures: USD 800,000. Prime Circle and scaling have separate conditions.

Up to $800,000 on standard FXIFY accounts. 2 Phase Pro has a separate maximum allocation of $785,000, one active account per account size.

Evaluations: unlimited purchases. Sim funded and Direct: up to four 50K accounts, two 100K accounts or one 200K account, within the total allocation limit. 100K and 200K accounts cannot be active together. Direct: at most two active accounts.

Only same-model Pro or Prime sim funded accounts, with no open trades or active cycle and a combined balance matching an available size. Unavailable for evaluations, Direct or PCP. Allocation limits and promotional-account exclusions apply.

No evaluation deadline, subject to the inactivity rule.

Most programs have unlimited time. Lightning has a short challenge window. 2 Phase Pro has no specific time window to complete the profit targets.

Pro: two days per phase. Prime 1-Step: two days. Prime 2-Step: three days per phase. Direct: no minimum. A day counts when at least one trade is opened.

• 1 Phase: 5 days
• 2 Phase Classic: 4 days
• 2 Phase Pro: 3 days to pass; 10 trading days to request payout
• 3 Phase: 5 days
• Instant Lite: 10 days
• Lightning: 3 days

Prime Circle: five lifetime Forex payouts, with no consecutive-payout or minimum-amount requirement. Only master payouts count when copying. Automatic eligibility subject to compliance, Platinum support, one pre-trading platform switch and allocation growth: USD 25,000 per three unique payouts of at least 1.5%, up to USD 1 million. The geographic USD 90,000 cap remains.

FXIFY Rewards:

• Earn Coins and XP through purchases, trading milestones, badges and Hub activities.
• Coins: redeem for challenge vouchers, raffle tickets and merchandise.
• XP: leaderboard ranking and prizes; cannot be spent.
• Access the Hub with your existing FXIFY account.
• Does not change your account's trading conditions.

Pro and Prime: three profitable days per biweekly cycle or seven per monthly cycle. Each day requires at least 0.5% net of the initial balance, measured using the lower of closing balance and equity minus the previous closing balance. On-demand uses consistency and minimum-profit requirements. Direct has no profitable-day minimum.

Plan-specific. Instant Lite has 5 minimum profitable days. 2 Phase Pro trading days require at least 0.5% profit based on initial balance.

Pro sim funded: maximum open exposure of 10 lots on 25K, 20 on 50K, 40 on 100K and 80 on 200K; no cap on 5K and 10K. From the second scaling, each step adds 10% of the original cap. Prime and Direct: no explicit lot cap, subject to idea risk. First violation: closure, deduction and requested reactivation; second: 30% split and termination.

MT5 only with the purchased EA Trading add-on; unavailable on Direct, cTrader, MatchTrader and TradeLocker. Strategy declaration and distinct settings required; identical strategies may be grouped for allocation. Analytical tools may not automatically execute or modify orders.

EAs are allowed on standard accounts and 2 Phase Pro. Lightning, Instant and Educational Course accounts have restrictions.

IP must match the registered country, including KYC and payments. No geographic circumvention. VPS permitted only for trade-taking EAs with a dedicated static IP; manual VPS trading is prohibited. No MT5 access from US IP addresses.

Hedging within a single account is allowed. Hedging across multiple accounts (offsetting buy/sell positions on the same instrument) is prohibited.

Required on sim funded and Direct accounts. There is no fixed three-minute deadline; it must be placed before closing. A trade without a stop loss is treated as unlimited risk and can cause account closure.

Lightning requires stop loss. Other plans are plan-specific.

Multiple entries are combined as one idea for risk limits. DCA, averaging down and systematically increasing losing exposure are prohibited.

Sim funded and Direct: at most 2% of the initial balance per idea, not per ticket. Risk is combined across overlapping positions and same-asset, same-direction re-entries within ten minutes, including chains. Not applicable during evaluation. PCP: 1% per idea and at most 30% aggregate margin.

Only own Hola Prime accounts. Challenge to challenge: unlimited. Sim funded: one master and one copier. Challenge to sim funded: only one receiving funded account; sim funded to challenges: unlimited. Copying from other prop firms is prohibited. Applies to accounts purchased on or after 15 September 2026.

Copy trading can be allowed on eligible accounts with proof of the master account, but it is not allowed on 2 Phase Pro or Lightning.

Prime and all evaluations: allowed. Pro sim funded and Direct: no opening or closing affected instruments from five minutes before to five minutes after high-impact news, including SL, TP and pending orders. Previously opened positions may be held. Pro: offending profit removed; Direct: account closure. PCP also restricts Prime news trading.

Most standard accounts allow news trading. Lightning has restrictions around major news. 2 Phase Pro allows news trading.

Hard breach after 30 consecutive calendar days without opening a trade, in evaluation and sim funded. Closing trades, changing SL/TP or placing pending orders does not count as activity.

60 calendar days without trading can trigger inactivity breach on relevant accounts, including 2 Phase Pro.

No consistency target to pass Pro or Prime. On-demand sim funded: best day at most 40% of cycle profit and total profit of at least 2% of the initial balance. Direct: best day at most 20%. A partial payout resets the calculation; retained profit does not replace new-cycle profit. PCP may impose additional conditions on high-risk traders.

Consistency rules are plan-specific. Lightning and Instant Lite include consistency requirements; 2 Phase Pro uses a trading-day qualification rule of 0.5% profit on initial balance.

Prime and Pro evaluations: allowed. Pro sim funded: close before 15:45 EST Friday; automatic closure and suspension until Monday. Direct: same deadline, but a hard breach and termination.

Standard evaluation accounts generally allow weekend holding. Instant Funding accounts have restrictions. 2 Phase Pro allows weekend holding.

HFT and tick scalping; arbitrage or exploitation of errors and liquidity; grid, martingale and DCA; unsupported one-sided bets, overexposure and account rolling; third-party accounts, devices, management or signals; cross-account hedging; material changes in strategy, assets or risk after passing; hyperactivity and unauthorized automation. MT5: at most 100 simultaneous orders and 1,000 positions or modifications daily. Sanctions may include profit adjustments, restrictions, PCP or termination.

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Reverse and group hedging
• Account management
• Latency arbitrage
• Order book spamming
• Herd trading and collusion
• Exploiting bugs and glitches
• High leverage news trading
• Statistical arbitrage