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

IFZA Business Park DDP Dubai U.A.E.

Somesh Kapuria

Khaled Ayesh

Hong Kong

United Arab Emirates

2024

2022

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.

1 and 2 Step: Full refund with first payout

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

$10

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.

• 2-Step Standard: Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly or On Demand
• 2-Step Pro: Weekly or Monthly
• 1 Step Flex and 2-Step Flex: Bi-Weekly or Monthly
• FundingPips Zero: Bi-Weekly
• Prime: Daily, any number of requests
• Labs 247: Daily

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.

• On Demand payout: 1%
• Tuesday, bi-weekly and montly: 1%
• Prime: 1% of Prime Account size (or Scaled Prime Account Size after scaling)
• Labs 247: 1% of the account size

Labs 247: crypto trading and weekend holding are available 24/7 in Evaluation and Master. Other models retain their existing restrictions.

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

• 1 Step: 30:1
• 2 Step: 100:1
• Zero: 50:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)

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

• 1 Step: 10:1
• 2 Step: 30:1
• Zero: 20:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

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

10:1

• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

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

• 1 Step: 5:1
• 2 Step, Zero: 20:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

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

• 1 Step: 1:1
• 2 Step, Zero: 2:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

Labs 247: 5:1

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.

10% discount for failing during the evaluation phase. Valid for 7 days and only for accounts of the same model and size (FundingPips Zero excluded).

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.

cTrader (+20%)
Swing: overnight and weekend holding on Master accounts for 1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro and 2-Step Flex; selected at purchase

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.

Level 1 – Launchpad (Novice)

Requires 4 payouts and 10% profit. Grants +20% capital and +1% drawdown.

Level 2 – Ascender (Intermediate)

Requires 8 payouts and 20% profit. Grants +30% capital, +2% total max drawdown, and +1% daily drawdown.

Level 3 – Trailblazer (Advanced)

Requires 12 payouts and 30% profit. Grants +40% capital and 13% max drawdown.

Level 4 – Hot Seat (Elite)

Requires 16 payouts and 40% profit. Doubles initial balance, offers 100% reward split, on-demand payouts, up to $2M capital, and monthly bonuses.

Level 5 – Elite Trader Status (Advanced Hot Seat)

Unlocks advanced tools, +1% additional max drawdown (4% total cumulative), +1% additional daily drawdown (2% total), customized trading conditions, and monthly bonuses based on initial account size ($100–$500).

Prime

The first four scale-ups require +5% total profit; from the fifth onward, +10%, measured against the starting size of the current level. Required profitable days: none for the first scale-up, 2 for the second and third, 4 for the fourth, and 10 from the fifth onward. Each profitable day must close at +1% or more of the account size; the counter resets after each scale-up. Each scale-up adds +10% to the current level's starting size, up to $2M. At Level 10 or $2M: Certified FundingPips Trader status, listed on the Tradin Investor Marketplace with 20% profit share on investor capital.

Labs 247 → Prime

After 5 rewards or $20,000 in total rewards across one or all Labs 247 accounts, the trader becomes eligible for an invitation to a $50,000 Prime account. The Labs 247 accounts close when the trader moves to Prime.

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.

• 1 Step Flex, 2 Step: Static
• Zero: Trailing
• Prime: 8% static below the starting balance; recalculated only after a scale-up
• Labs 247: 4% static in Evaluation and Master

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.

Reward split depends on the selected reward cycle and account configuration.

• 2-Step Standard: Weekly (60%), Bi-Weekly, On Demand (90%) or Monthly (100%)
• 2-Step Pro: Weekly or Monthly (100%)
• 1 Step Flex: Bi-Weekly or Monthly (100%)
• 2-Step Flex: Bi-Weekly, with an alternative 95% split selected at purchase at the same price, or Monthly (100%)
• FundingPips Zero: fixed Bi-Weekly cycle
• Prime: 80%, Daily, any number of requests
• Labs 247: Daily

The Monthly cycle requires consistency and profitable days. Earlier purchases retain their legacy conditions.

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.

Higher of the opening balance or equity for the trading day

• Prime: 3% (soft breach, pauses trading for the rest of the day, account stays open, resumes at 00:00 UTC+3)
• Labs 247: 2% of the starting balance in Evaluation and Master

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.

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.

Labs 247: maximum 5 accounts per user. These accounts are separate from the standard capital allocation.

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.

A Master account can only be merged with another Master account from the same evaluation model.

Merging accounts is not supported in the FundingPips Zero Model.

• Prime Accounts: any Prime accounts can merge, regardless of the originating model. Request through the dashboard; the resulting account takes the higher of the two scale-up levels. Merged size respects the $2M maximum.

No evaluation deadline, subject to the inactivity rule.

Labs 247: 6 months for the Evaluation phase and a separate 6-month period for the Master account.

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.

New purchases and resets from 28 September 2026:

• 2-Step Standard: 3 trading days per evaluation phase; no minimum with the 3% daily-loss configuration
• 2-Step Pro: no minimum trading days
• 1 Step Flex: no minimum trading days
• 2-Step Flex: 1 trading day per phase on the standard reward configuration; the alternative configuration requires profitable days
• Labs 247: no minimum trading days
  Earlier purchases retain their legacy conditions.

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.

Participant Limit: Up to 50,000 participants. Registration closes once full.

Prizes

• 1st: 100K Evaluation + $1,500
• 2nd: 100K Evaluation + $1,200
• 3rd: 100K Evaluation + $1,000
• 4th: 100K Evaluation
• 5th: 50K Evaluation
• 6th–10th: 25K Evaluation
• 11th–20th: 10K Evaluation
• Bonus Prize: 13 random participants (ranked 4th–1000th) receive $100 each.

Rules

• Max loss: 10%
• Daily loss: 5%
• No EAs
• No exploiting unrealistic demo fills
• One account per person

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.

Zero: Minimum of 7 days with 0.25% profit or more by the end of each 30-day period. Failure to meet this requirement will result in a rule violation.

• Monthly reward cycle (1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Flex): 7 profitable days per cycle, each with at least 0.5% of the starting Master account size; the count resets after each reward
• 2-Step Flex alternative reward configuration: 3 profitable days per evaluation phase and per Bi-Weekly Master reward cycle, each with at least 0.5% of the starting account size

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.

Default rule (third-party EAs): Permitted ONLY when used strictly as a trade or risk manager. Any other use of a third-party EA = denial of evaluation/reward and account closure.

Personal EA Exception
Full automation allowed only with proof of ownership of the EA code.

Account-type exceptions

• 1K Instant Account: third-party EAs and trade copiers permitted (full automation OK).
• Monthly Competition: ALL EAs prohibited (including personal with proof).

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.

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.

There is a limit on simultaneous open lots:

• $5K–$10K: no limit
• $25K: 10 lots
• $50K: 20 lots
• $100K or more (including merged accounts): maximum 40 lots

Penalties

• 1st violation: warning
• 2nd violation: removal of excess profits, reward reduced to 30%, and account closure

1 Step Flex, 2-Step Flex, 2-Step Pro and 2-Step Standard

Risk Per Trade Idea and the Striking System are removed in Evaluation and Master for new purchases from 28 September 2026. Earlier purchases retain their legacy conditions.

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.

Permitted

• Copying trades between your own FundingPips accounts (registered under same individual).
• Using your FundingPips account as MASTER to copy to external accounts (as slave).

Prohibited

• Copying between FundingPips accounts of different users.
• Coordinated trading across master accounts not owned by same individual.
• Inbound copy trading (external source as master, FundingPips as slave).
• Third-party account management (immediate termination).

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.

Evaluation Stage (1 Step, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Flex, 2 Step Pro)
No restrictions on holding trades during news events. Purposely trading news = account closure.

Master Account (1 Step, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Flex, 2 Step Pro)
Trades opened/closed within 5 minutes before/after a high-impact (red folder) news event have their FULL profit deducted, UNLESS the trade was executed 5+ hours before the event.
Speech window: 5 min before speech start to 5 min after speech end.

FundingPips Zero
HARD BREACH if any position is opened/closed/held within 10 minutes before/after a high-impact news event on affected currencies.
Speech window: 10 min before speech start to 10 min after speech end.

Labs 247
Evaluation: news trading is allowed on every instrument.
Master: profits may be deducted from trades opened or closed 5 minutes before or after high-impact news affecting the corresponding currency. For high-impact speeches, the window runs from 10 minutes before the speech begins until 10 minutes after it ends. Trades opened at least 5 hours before the event are exempt.

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 consecutive days without completed trades results in hard breach. Applies to all account types including Master accounts.

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.

• On Demand (2-Step Standard): no single trading day may account for more than 35% of total profit
• Monthly (1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Flex): 35% consistency score, reset after each reward
• Bi-Weekly (FundingPips Zero): 15% consistency score; the biggest losing day cannot exceed the biggest winning day
• Bi-Weekly (1 Step Flex and 2-Step Flex): no consistency score
• Profit Concentration Policy: removed for new purchases from 28 September 2026; qualifying legacy accounts retain their existing conditions
• Labs 247: no consistency rule in Evaluation or Master

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.

1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro and 2-Step Flex
Evaluation: overnight and weekend holding allowed on all instruments.
Master: overnight and weekend holding require the Swing add-on selected at purchase. Without Swing, positions are automatically closed each trading day; this is not an account breach and does not count as a valid trading day.

FundingPips Zero
Weekend holding is a hard breach on Master accounts. Close all positions before Friday market close, including crypto.

Prime
Weekend holding allowed.

Labs 247
Trading and weekend holding allowed 24/7 in Evaluation and Master.

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.

• Gap trading
• High-frequency trading
• Server spamming
• Latency arbitrage
• Toxic trading flow
• Hedging
• Long-short arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage
• Tick scalping
• Server execution
• Opposite account trading