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

Top floor, Rodney Court Building, Rodney Bay, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia

Somesh Kapuria

Lewis Mansbridge

Hong Kong

Saint Lucia

2024

2021

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.

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.

IF Evolve

On-demand payouts once the funded-stage eligibility requirements are met.

Instant Funding

First withdrawal after 14 days from your first trade; then every 7 days after each new trade.

Instant Funding GO

First withdrawal after 14 days from your first trade; then every 7 days after each new trade. Minimum withdrawal: $25.

Instant Funding Micro, One-Phase Micro, Two-Phase Micro, One-Phase & Two-Phase

On-Demand Payouts, withdraw anytime once eligible.

IF Micro Clarity

On-demand payouts, withdraw anytime once eligible.

One-Phase Clarity

First payout on-demand once the 1.5% minimum is reached; then every 7 days.

Instant Funding Clarity

First withdrawal after 14 days from your first trade; then every 7 days after each new trade.

IF Micro Lite

Payouts every 14 days once eligible; Smart Drawdown must be locked.

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.

IF Evolve

• $250

Other accounts

• $25

IF Micro Lite

• Net profit of at least 5% of starting balance, before profit split.

IF Evolve

• Maximum 50% of account profit per payout
• Maximum $2,000 per request
• Maximum 5 payouts per account

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

IF Evolve

• 30:1

Other accounts

• 100:1 (30:1 with news trading add-on)

IF Micro Lite

• 30:1

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

20:1 (8:1 with news trading add-on)

IF Micro Lite

• 5:1

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

20:1 (8:1 with news trading add-on)

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

20:1 (8:1 with news trading add-on)

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

2:1 (1:1 with news trading add-on)

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.

Accounts can't be reset. After a breach, traders must purchase a new account.

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.

• Allow major news trading and weekend holding

• Add 10% to profit split

• +5% Best Day (IF Micro up to $50,000): raises Best Day limit from 15% to 20%

• Extended 48-hour trading window (IF1 only)

• Increased best trade limit of 20% (IF1 only)

• IF Micro Lite: +10% profit split (90%).

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.

Challenge Accounts + Instant Funding Micro + IF Micro Clarity + One-Phase Clarity

+25% to starting balance every 90 days with 10% profit, up to 2× the original account size.

Instant Funding & Instant Funding GO

• Instantly double your account when you reach 10% profit (up to $1,280,000).
• You keep all profit except 5% of starting balance used for scaling.

IF Micro Lite

• +25% to starting balance every 90 days with 10% profit, up to twice the original account size.

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.

IF Evolve

• End-of-Day trailing drawdown. It updates at 17:00 EST from the highest recorded end-of-day balance, only moves upward, and locks permanently at the starting balance.

Instant Funding, Instant Funding GO & Instant Funding Clarity

• Smart Drawdown. Starts at –10% and shifts to –5% once you gain 5%. After that, the drawdown stays fixed at –5% of your starting balance, no matter how much you profit.

IF Micro Clarity & One-Phase Clarity

• 6% trailing drawdown of the starting balance. Trails off closed trades only and never decreases.

Rest of accounts

• Static

IF Micro Lite

• Smart Drawdown locks permanently at -3% of starting balance after a 3% gain in closed-trade balance.

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.

Instant Funding, Instant Funding GO, Instant Funding Micro, One Phase, One Phase Micro, Two Phase, Two-Phase Micro, IF Micro Clarity, One-Phase Clarity, Instant Funding Clarity

• 80%

IF1

• 90%

One-Phase, Two-Phase, and Two-Phase Micro Challenges

• Trade for at least 3 months and achieve a profit of 10% or more
• Contact support to request a review of your results
• Once verified, your profit split will be increased to 90%

Clarity (Micro Clarity, One-Phase Clarity, Instant Funding Clarity)

• Up to 90% with the +10% profit split add-on

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.

IF Evolve

• No Daily Loss limit during either the Challenge or Funded stage.

Instant Funding & Instant Funding GO

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

IF Micro Clarity

• 3% of account value/day. Daily reset at 17:00 EST, recalculated on the higher of balance or equity.

One-Phase Clarity

• 4% of account value/day. Daily reset at 17:00 EST, recalculated on the higher of balance or equity.

Instant Funding Clarity

• No daily drawdown

IF Micro Lite

• Recalculated at 17:00 EST on the higher of balance or equity. Breaching the daily limit closes the account.

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.

$1,000,000 combined starting balance across all programs, including IF Micro Lite. Scaled balances do not count toward this cap.

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.

IF Evolve

• Up to 5 active Evolve accounts at the same time

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.

• IF1: 24 hours
• IF Micro Clarity & One-Phase Clarity: Unlimited
• Rest of accounts (including Instant Funding GO): Unlimited

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.

Instant Funding, Instant Funding GO, Instant Funding Micro, IF1, IF Micro Clarity, One-Phase Clarity: No minimum

• One Phase, One Phase Micro, Two Phase, Two-Phase Micro: 3 days

• IF Micro Lite: No minimum

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.

• You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and you can use points to obtain promotional codes with discounts up to 50%.
• You earn 10% of the final value (after discounts) in points for every purchase.

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.

IF Evolve

• 5 profitable days of at least 0.25% to pass the Challenge
• Another 5 qualifying days are required for each funded payout

IF Micro Clarity

• 5 profitable trading days per payout cycle, each generating at least 0.5% profit. The count resets after every successful payout.

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.

Scalping is permitted, but not HFT. HFT includes trades held under 60 seconds or a high number of trades per hour.

Violations

• 1–2: Warning + profit deduction
• 3: Account breach

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

One-Phase, Two-Phase, IF Micro

Martingale is fully permitted. You can add to losing positions and increase lot sizes without restriction.

Instant Funding

Adding to losing positions is allowed, but repeatedly doubling lot sizes after losses is not permitted.

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.

Maximum Lot Rule: Full list here

Maximum risk per trade idea — funded accounts

• General limit: 50% of the account's starting daily drawdown.
• Instant Funding: 3% of the starting balance.
• Instant Funding GO and One-Phase Crypto: 2%.
• IF Micro, IF Micro Crypto and IF1: 1%.
• Two-Phase Micro: 2% on accounts up to $50,000 and 1.5% on accounts of $100,000 or more.

Clarity accounts (IF Micro Clarity, One-Phase Clarity)

• No maximum-risk-per-position rule. Instead, a circuit breaker closes all positions if unrealised losses exceed 1.5% (IF Micro Clarity) or 2% (One-Phase Clarity) of the starting balance. The first breach reduces the profit split to 50%; the second closes the account.

IF Micro Lite

• Floating losses exceeding 1% of starting balance close all positions and trigger a strike. Account Drawdown and news-window violations share one strike pool: first strike reduces profit split to 50%; second closes the account.

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.

IF Evolve

News trading is allowed during both the Challenge and Funded stages.

Challenge accounts

One-Phase, Two-Phase → free news trading.

Micro accounts

IF Micro, IF1, One-Phase Micro, Two-Phase Micro → news trading allowed.

Clarity accounts

IF Micro Clarity, One-Phase Clarity → news trading included by default (no add-on required). Straddling prohibited on One-Phase Clarity.

Funded accounts

Instant Funding, Instant Funding GO, Instant Funding Clarity, One-Phase, Two-Phase → news trading only with the Major News Trading add-on. Two-Phase Micro has news trading enabled by default.

News restriction window

Blocks market orders, pending limit orders, and TP/SL triggers on affected instruments:

• Funded accounts: 4 min before + 4 min after news (8 min total).

Warning system (funded accounts: One-Phase, Two-Phase, Instant Funding, Instant Funding GO)

• Up to 2 warnings with profit deductions for trades made inside the restriction window.
• 3rd violation = account breach.
• Profit deductions don't affect daily drawdown, but overall drawdown adjustments still apply.

IF Micro Lite

• Trading on affected instruments is prohibited within 4 minutes before and after major news. Violations count toward the shared strike pool described under maximum risk.

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 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.

No payout consistency rule

• Instant Funding and Instant Funding GO
• One-Phase Clarity and Instant Funding Clarity

Best-day / best-trade rule for payouts

• IF Evolve: the best trading day must not exceed 40% of total profit during both the Challenge and Funded stages.

• IF Micro, IF Micro Crypto, One-Phase Micro and Two-Phase Micro: the best trading day must not exceed 15% of total profit.

• IF1: the most profitable trade must not exceed 15% of total profit.

• IF Micro with the +5% Best Day add-on: 20%.

• One-Phase and Two-Phase: the best trading day must not exceed 40% of total profit.

• IF Micro Clarity: the best trading day must not exceed 20% of total profit.

• IF Micro Lite: best trading day at most 15% of total profit for payout eligibility.

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.

• IF Evolve: Overnight and weekend holding are not permitted. All positions close automatically at 17:00 EST.

• Instant Funding, Instant Funding GO: Only allowed with add-on

• IF Micro, IF1, Two-Phase Micro: Allowed without restrictions

• IF Micro Clarity, One-Phase Clarity: Allowed without restrictions, no add-on required

• One Phase, Two Phase: Allowed during evaluation, and during funded phase with add-on

• IF Micro Lite: Weekend holding is not permitted.

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.

• Latency Arbitrage
• Tick Scalping
• Account Arbitrage
• Exploiting platform glitches
• Reverse Trading
• Group Hedging
• Group Copying
• Account Management
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Third-Party EAs
• Account Churning (Rolling)
• One-Sided Bets
• Grid Trading
• Overleveraging
• Gambling