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Headquarters

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

Corso G. Matteotti 61, Latina, 04100, Italy

CEO

Somesh Kapuria

Christian Habibi

Country

Hong Kong

Italy

Foundation

2024

2023

Banned Countries
Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Cuba, North Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Mali, Moldova, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
United States, Canada, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, North Korea, Israel, Syria, Palestine
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Stocks, Crypto
Brokers
Hola Prime Markets
Funded Elite
Refund
Yes

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.

Yes
  • Without Second Chance: If you complete our challenges successfully on your first attempt, your original fee will be reimbursed with your third payout.
  • With Second Chance: If you activated the "Second Chance" option and received a complimentary retry, the initial fee becomes non-refundable.
Payout Fee

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

  • Rise: $35
  • ERC20 and BTC: Around $7
  • TRC20: Around $3
Platforms
Metatrader 5, cTrader, MatchTrader, TradeLocker
Metatrader 5, TradeLocker
Demo Account
Metatrader 5
ID71034PasswordTest@123ServerHolaprime-Server1
MatchTrader
ID458795Passwordj8U^$T3R2
MetaTrader 5
ID55188PasswordFundedelite1!Server Fundedelite-Server
Payout Methods
Crypto, Transfer, Rise
Crypto, Rise
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency

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.

Can be choose at checkout: 3, 7, 14, 21 days

Payout Guarantee

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.

No data
Minimum Withdrawal

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

  • Crypto: $30
  • Rise: $500
Maximum Withdrawal
No data
  • Crypto: $500
  • Giveaway and free accounts: 2% of the initial balance
Forex

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

30:1 (50:1 and 100:1 available as an add-on at the checkout)

Metals

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

10:1
Energies

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

10:1
Indices

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

10:1
Crypto

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

2:1
Forex
3 / lot
3 / lot
Metals
1.5 / lot - 3 / lot
0 / lot
Energies
1.5 / lot
3 / lot
Indices
0 / lot
0
Crypto
0 / lot
0
Swap Free
Yes

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

No
Account Reset

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

Traders can independently restart their live account directly from the dashboard.

  • The initial reset carries a fee equal to 20% of the original challenge price (no discounts applied and including any selected add-ons), with a minimum charge of $10 USD.
  • The fee for the second reset will be double the cost of the first reset.
  • The third and final reset will cost twice the fee of the second reset.
Add-ons
Yes

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.

Yes
  • Forex Leverage: 30:1, 50:1, 100:1
  • Allow Scalping
  • Weekend trading (open or close positions)
  • Profit Split: 60%, 70%, 80%, 95%
  • Days between payout: 3, 7, 14, 21
  • Profit target: 6-12
  • Max Drawdown: 6-10
Instant
Yes

Direct Account provides funded access without an evaluation phase.

Yes
One Step
Yes

1-Step Prime Challenge.

Yes
Account scaling
Yes

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.

Yes
Two Steps
Yes

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

Yes
Max Drawdown

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 Step, 2 Step: Static
  • Instant: Trailing
  • Activation: Static during challenge and trailing on funded account
  • Catalyst: Trailing equity. 6% at $25K, 5% from $50K up
Profit Split

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.

  • 1 Step, 2 Step: 60%, 70%, 80%, 95% (can be selected at the checkout)
  • Instant: 70%, 95%
  • Activation: 80%
  • Catalyst: 80% at $25K, 85% at $50K, 90% at $100K, 95% from $200K and up
Free Trial
No
No
Profit After Breach

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.

No data
Daily Drawdown

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.

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark).

  • Catalyst: 3% of the higher of yesterday's closing balance or equity
Three Steps
No
No
Max Allocation

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.

  • Vietnam, Pakistan: 100,000
  • Rest of the world: 300,000
Maximum Accounts

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.

No data
Merge Accounts
Limited

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.

Yes
Maximum Trading Days

No evaluation deadline, subject to the inactivity rule.

Unlimited

Minimum Trading Days

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 Step, 2 Step: 3 days on funded account
Points Reward Program

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.

Elite Packs: each pack contains three reward cards. Depending on the card obtained, rewards can remove consistency requirements, increase profit split or drawdown allowance, enable weekend trading or scalping, change payout frequency, reduce or skip trading days, skip a 2-Step evaluation phase, or provide account and reset discounts. One card rewards three $400K Instant Elite accounts. Benefits depend on the card obtained and its redemption conditions.

Packs and credit cost

  • Ignition: 3,000 credits
  • Breakout: 6,000 credits
  • Market Maker: 10,000 credits
  • Whale: 12,500 credits; every card is Uncommon or better
  • Oracle: 15,000 credits; every card is Rare or better

Higher-tier packs offer better odds of higher-rarity cards. Cards are drawn separately; the displayed odds are per card.

Credits

Credits can be purchased by card or crypto, or obtained by converting Payout Credits. Crypto purchases receive a 5% discount.

  • $10: 1,150 credits
  • $25: 3,105 credits, including an 8% bonus
  • $50: 6,440 credits, including a 12% bonus
  • $100: 13,340 credits, including a 16% bonus
  • $250: 34,500 credits, including a 20% bonus
Monthly Competition
No
Yes
Minimum Profitable Days

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.

  • 1 Step, 2 Step: 3 days of at least 0.5% profit on challenge phase
  • Instant: 3 days of at least 1% profit on funded phase
  • Activation: 3 days of at least 0.5% profit on both challenge and funded phase
  • Catalyst: 5 days with a minimum PnL per stage ($150 / $250 / $350 / $450 / $650 / $850 / $1,000 for $25K → $1M)
Position size scaling
Limited

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.

No data
Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

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.

No

Only manual trading tools are allowed, not automated trading

VPN
Limited

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.

Yes

Must inform Funded Elite in advance

Hedging
Limited

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

No
Requires Stop Loss
Limited

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.

No
Scalping
Yes
Yes

Trades must last longer than 30 seconds if the scalping add-on was purchased, and more than3 minutes if it wasn't

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Limited

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

Yes
Martingale
No
Yes
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

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.

Yes

Funded Phase: Risking more than 50% of your daily loss limit on a single instrument during the same day is strictly prohibited.

Copy Trading
Limited

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.

Yes
News Trading
Limited

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.

Yes
Inactivity Rule
Yes

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.

29 days

Consistency Rule
Limited

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.

Yes
  • Instant: yes
  • Catalyst: yes
Hold Weekend
Limited

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.

Yes
Prohibited Strategies

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.

  • IP sharing
  • HFT
  • Hedging
  • Account Rolling
  • Account Sharing/any passing service
  • Latency Arbitrage
  • Server Spamming
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