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

Masarykova 409/26, Brno, Czech Republic

Somesh Kapuria

David Varga

Hong Kong

Czech Republic

2024

2023

Liquidity Provider

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.

Within 14 days of purchase, only if you haven't accessed MyFintokei or placed any trade. Refund must be requested via email.

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

• ETH: 2.5% + 10 EUR
• BTC: 2.5% + 20 EUR
• Other crypto: 2.5%

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.

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.

• All accounts: 100 EUR, 100 USD, 2,000 CZK, 20,000 JPY
• ProTrader $400,000: 120 EUR/USD
• SwiftTrader: 3% of the account balance

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

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 25:1
• ProTrader Swing: 25:1
• ProTrader: 100:1

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

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:25
• ProTrader Swing: 1:25
• ProTrader: 1:100

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

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:10
• ProTrader: 1:20

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

• StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:20
• ProTrader: 1:50

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

• BTC: 2:1
• Other Crypto: 1:1

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

• ProTrader Swing: swap-free on all account sizes

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

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.

Direct Account provides funded access without an evaluation phase.

1-Step Prime Challenge.

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.

Achieve 10% profit during at least 2 consecutive months to increase your funded account balance. Only one scaled account per trader. More details on scalind structure here

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

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.

Static

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.

StartTrader (Dynamic Performance reward)

Your performance reward can vary from 50% to 100%, depending on your trading behavior. The system automatically assesses the way you trade, taking into account several aspects of your trading history, such as:

• The number of active trading days
• How you handle your account's leverage
• Your trading background, reflected in the number of payouts
• The consistency of your results, evaluated through your daily gains and losses

ProTrader: 80%

SwiftTrader: 90%

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.

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.

• StartTrader, ProTrader, Swift: Equity based
• ProTrader Swing: Balance based

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.

• ProTrader and ProTrader Swing (combined): 400,000 EUR/USD
• StartTrader: 100,000 EUR/USD
• SwiftTrader: 200,000 EUR/USD

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.

• StartTrader: 180 days on phases 1 and 2
• SwiftTrader: 60 days
• ProTrader, ProTrader Swing: No limit

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.

• StartTrader, ProTrader, ProTrader Swing, SwiftTrader: 3 days on evaluation phase

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.

Loyalty Program based on Experience Points (XP) with 6 tiers. XP never expires.

How to earn XP

• Challenge purchases: 10-400 XP per purchase
• Milestones: 50-300 XP for passing phases, breaches, or approved payouts
• One-time bonuses: 200 XP each for registration, KYC completion, and first trial
• Daily activities: 10 XP for login or active trading days
• XP is earned even when failing challenges

Tier Benefits

• Tier 1 (0-1,999 XP): No benefits
• Tier 2 (2,000-4,999 XP): Free $5K StartTrader challenge, 5% performance boost, 5% capital boost
• Tier 3 (5,000-9,999 XP): Free $10K ProTrader challenge, 10% performance boost, +0.5% daily loss limit, 10% capital boost
• Tier 4 (10,000-19,999 XP): Free $20K ProTrader challenge, +1% daily loss limit, +1% max loss limit, 15% capital boost
• Tier 5 (20,000-29,999 XP): Free $50K ProTrader challenge, 15% performance boost, +1.5% daily/max loss limits, 20% capital boost
• Tier 6 (30,000+ XP): Free $100K ProTrader challenge, 20% performance boost, +2% daily/max loss limits, 25% capital boost

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.

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.

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.

• It is not allowed to have more than 10% of your total lot volume coming from tick scalping trades
• Any trade lasting less than 10 seconds falls under our tick scalping definition

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.

Open trades: 3%

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.

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.

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.

30 days

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.

Fintokei applies Consistency Rules to promote sustainable trading and prevent gambling-style or high-risk behavior. These rules are used only after warnings and can affect either a single account or a trader's entire profile, depending on the severity. When applied, traders are notified with details about the restrictions and next steps.

• Reduced leverage (e.g., 1:10 for FX, 1:5 for other instruments)
• Daily profit and loss caps (+1% / -1% of starting balance)
• Inability to advance in the Scaling program
• Restrictions on new evaluation program purchases

These rules are intended as a safety layer, not a penalty, and can be lifted after 3–6 months of consistent, responsible trading.

Only StartTrader

Max 40% of your profit target can come from 1 day

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.

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.

• Copying trades from other persons' signals
• Using services to pass prop trading evaluations
• Tick scalping
• HFT
• Latency arbitrage trading
• Opposite trading / hedging across multiple accounts or traders