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

901 Pennsylvania Ave Suite #3-440, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Somesh Kapuria

Stan

Hong Kong

United States

2024

2022

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.

• 2-Step Pro: Refund bonus on first payout.
• 1-Step Pro: Refund bonus on second payout.
• Instant Funding: Not eligible for refund bonus.
• 150% Refund Add-On available: receive 150% of challenge fee back after first payout.

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.

Pro accounts

• Default: first payout 21 days after first trade on funded account; subsequent payouts every 21 days.
• With 14-Day Payout Add-On: first payout 14 days after first trade; subsequent every 14 days.

Instant Funded accounts

• First payout 7 days after the first trade on the funded account; subsequent every 7 days.
• With On-Demand Payout Add-On: request payouts any time once eligibility requirements are met.

Minimum payout: $200 via Rise (bank transfer), $50 via Crypto (USDT-ERC20).

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.

Payout requests processed within 2 business days (excluding holidays and weekends). If not, traders receive $1,000 ($500 cash + $500 account credits).

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

$200 via Rise / $50 via Crypto

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

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

1:20

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

Oil: 1:10

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

• 1-Step Pro & Instant Funding: 1:20
• 2-Step Pro: 1:15

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

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

Available as a 'Swap-free, Zero Commissions' add-on for Pro accounts. Removes $3/lot commission and enables swap-free trading.

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

Revive Feature (2-Step Pro, Phase 1 only)

Continue your Phase 1 challenge from the progress already achieved instead of restarting. Available only if the account was in overall profit at the moment of breach. Available for 48 hours after breach, one-time use only.

Cost = Paid account price + (Paid account price × % of profit target achieved).

Restrictions

• Only available in Phase 1 (not Phase 2)
• Only one recovery action per account (Revive OR Reset, not both)
• If the account fails again after using Revive or Reset, the account is permanently failed
• Using Revive removes payout refund eligibility

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.

• Swap-free, Zero Commissions (Pro accounts)
• 14-Day Payout (Pro accounts)
• 100% Profit Split
• 30% Consistency Score
• 30% News Trading (Pro accounts)
• Hold Through News, 15% (Instant Funded only)
• On-Demand Payout (Instant Funded only)
• Double-Up (free second challenge upon funding)
• 150% Refund
• Daily Drawdown Shield, 20% (evaluation only; one Daily Loss Limit breach does not fail the account)
• No Minimum Trading Days, 25% (1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro6/Pro10; removes the requirement at every stage)

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.

Account grows by 25% (of original balance) every 2 consecutive profitable months with at least 8% total profit. Maximum account size: $2,000,000. Extra +25% bonus after 3 months active.

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 Pro: 10% trailing. Trails higher as account balance increases.
• 2-Step Pro PRO6: 6% static. Fixed, does not trail.
• 2-Step Pro PRO10: 10% static. Fixed, does not trail.
• Instant Funding: 6% trailing until 3% profit is made, then locks at initial account size.

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.

80% default profit split (trader/firm 80/20) on all account types.

• 90% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on
• 100% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on

Free $1,000 Try Out on the 1-Step Pro, not available from the regular sign-up. TheGodFunded users can claim it here: get your free Try Out. New users only, one per person, MT5. Passing it gives a real funded account with an 80% split and a $500 lifetime payout cap.

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.

• 1-Step Pro: 3%. Based on starting day's balance.
• 2-Step Pro PRO6: 3%. Based on starting day's balance.
• 2-Step Pro PRO10: 5%. Based on starting day's balance.
• Instant Funding: 3%. Based on higher of starting day's balance or equity.

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.

• Pro accounts: Maximum $300,000 in funded accounts.
• Instant Funded: Capped at $400,000 across all instant funded accounts.
• Unlimited evaluation accounts allowed.

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.

• Only for funded accounts.
• Both accounts must have the same payout schedule and profit split.
• Accounts must not have been traded and must be at initial balance.

No evaluation deadline, subject to the inactivity rule.

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.

• 1-Step Pro: 2 trading days (challenge and funded)
• 2-Step Pro: 4 trading days per phase (8 total for challenge), 2 trading days funded
• Instant Funding: No minimum
• Optional No Minimum Trading Days add-on: removes these requirements at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro6/Pro10; +25% of base price

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.

FT Points and Challenge Convert let KYC-verified traders use an approved payout to buy a new account immediately or convert it into points for a later purchase. $1 of payout converts to 2.2 FT Points; each point covers $1 of listed account price, an effective 55% discount. The conversion is final; any unused payout balance follows the normal payout method.

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.

2-Step Pro (PRO6 and PRO10)

• Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
• Phase 2 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
• Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days

1-Step

• Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 2 trading days
• Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days

Instant Funded

• No minimum trading days requirement.

Optional add-on

• No Minimum Trading Days removes the requirement at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro6/Pro10; +25% of base price.

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 and Bots permitted ONLY if focused on risk management (e.g. position size calculators, auto position size execution bots).

Not allowed

• Off-the-shelf EAs purchased/downloaded online (unless solely for risk management)
• EAs that automatically place trades (unless developed personally by the trader)
• Grid Trading EAs/Bots
• Hedge Trading EAs/Bots

AI-generated EAs
Allowed if the trader fully understands the code (strategy, entry/exit logic, risk parameters) and can explain it to the Risk Team.

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.

• Pro accounts: Maximum 2% risk per trade idea (of initial balance).
• Instant Funding: Maximum 1% floating PnL loss (of initial balance, all active trades combined).
• Instant Funding lot size limit: 20 lots per trade maximum.

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.

Allowed: copy trading between your own FundingTraders Pro accounts; copying trades from your own accounts on other brokers/firms into your FundingTraders account.

Not allowed: copying trades from accounts owned by other traders; sharing signals with other traders.

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.

Challenge phase

• News trading fully permitted, no restrictions.

Funded phase — Pro accounts

• News trading allowed but max 30% of total profits can come from news-influenced trades.
• News Trade window: 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after high-impact (Red Folder) event.
• If the 30% limit is exceeded, payout processing is delayed until additional trades bring the percentage back under the limit.
• Trades held for 5+ hours before a high-impact news release are NOT considered News Trades.

Funded phase — Instant Funded accounts

• News trading is strictly prohibited by default: having any open trades during a high-impact news event results in account termination.
• Timing restriction: no opening, closing or triggering pending orders within 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after a high-impact news event (10-minute window). Applies even with the add-on.
• Optional Hold Through News (15% Add-On): allows positions opened outside the 10-minute window to be held through high-impact events without breaching the account.

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.

The 30-day inactivity period begins on the day the account is purchased, not from last activity. If no trades are placed within this period, the account is automatically failed for inactivity and permanently closed (no restoration). Applies to Challenge and Funded 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.

Pro accounts (1-Step & 2-Step)

Default: Largest profit day must not exceed 50% of total profits. With 30% Consistency Score Add-On: threshold increases to 30%.

Instant Funding

Largest profit day must not exceed 15% of total profits.

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.

Weekend holding permitted on all account types (Pro and Instant Funded). Positions can be held across the weekend on all instruments, including crypto. No forced Friday flatten. Gap risk and widened spreads around the Asian open still apply; swap fees still charged.

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.

• Grid trading (3+ positions same pair/direction)
• Hedge trading
• Arbitrage, latency trading
• High-frequency trading (trades ≤15 seconds)
• Reverse trading across accounts
• Account rolling/stacking (risking all on multiple accounts)
• Overleveraged trades (>30% margin on single trade)
• One-sided trading (stacking positions to hit targets)