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Headquarters

Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Office 8.05 One Canada Square, London, England, E14 5AA, United Kingdom

Country

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

Foundation

2025

2012

Banned Countries
Nigeria, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea
United States, Syria, Iran, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Venezuela
CEO
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Karim Yousfi

Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Forex, Indices, Commodities
Brokers

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AudaCity Global LTD
Refund
Yes

The fee can be refunded after the required successful payout.

  • 1-Step and 2-Step: refunded with the second successful payout.
  • Hyper Instant and Instant Plus: refunded with the third successful payout.
  • The refund equals the amount actually paid.
Yes

Ability Challenge only: fee refunded with the first payout. Ability One (accounts from 2 November 2026) and FTP Instant Funding: not refundable.

Payout Fee

Rise: $35

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Platforms
Volumetrica, Tradingview, DeepCharts, DeepDOM, ATAS
Metatrader 4, Metatrader 5
Payout Methods
Rise, Crypto
Transfer, Crypto, PayPal
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, PayPal
Card, Crypto, PayPal, Transfer
Payout Frequency
  • 1-Step and 2-Step Fast: every two weeks
  • Hyper Instant and Instant Plus: on demand
  • Ability Challenge: first payout after 30 days, then every 14 days
  • Ability One: every 14 days
  • FTP Instant Funding: first payout 14 days after the first trade, then every 14 days
Minimum Withdrawal
  • 1-Step and 2-Step Fast: $100
  • Hyper Instant: $100
  • Instant Plus: 6% of the initial account balance
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Demo Account
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Metatrader5
ID54555PasswordYq!8YsYaServerAudaCityGlobal-Live
Forex
50:1
  • Ability Challenge: 100:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 30:1
Metals
50:1
  • Ability Challenge: 100:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 30:1
Energies
50:1
  • Ability Challenge: 25:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 60:1
Indices
50:1
  • Ability Challenge: 100:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 30:1
Crypto
50:1
  • Ability Challenge: 2:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 2:1
Forex
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6 / lot
Metals
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6 / lot
Energies
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6 / lot
Indices
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10 / lot
Crypto
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Commission-Free Option
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No
Swap Free
No
No
Add-ons
No
Yes
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No
Yes
  • Eligibility: Traders must demonstrate a monthly profitability of at least 2.5% for the 3 consecutive months.
  • Scaling Increase: The account balance is doubled (100% increase) during each scaling event up to $2,000,000.
  • Review Cycle: The account is reviewed every 3 months. Traders must make at least one withdrawal within this period.
  • FTP Instant Funding: no scaling plan for accounts bought from 2 November 2026.
Two Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown
  • 1-Step: 6%
  • 2-Step Fast: 8% static
  • Instant Plus: 6% trailing
  • Hyper Instant: 6% smart trailing

Balance based

Profit Split
  • 1-Step: 80%
  • Instant Plus: 70%

See each challenge for the applicable split.

Ability Challenge

  • The profit share for the first payout is 75%
  • If you withdraw over 10% profit in 30 days, the profit share will increase to 85%
  • Once you've doubled your account twice and consistently achieved over 10% profit, you'll qualify for up to 90% profit sharing

Ability One

  • Up to 90%

FTP Instant Funding

  • 1st payout: 75%
  • 2nd payout: 80%
  • 3rd payout onward: 85%
Free Trial
No
Yes
Daily Drawdown
  • 1-Step: 3%
  • 2-Step Fast: 4%
  • Instant Plus: 3%
  • Hyper Instant: 3%

Based in highest value between balance and equity

Three Steps
No
No
Max Allocation
500,000
240,000
Maximum Accounts

No limit on the number of accounts. Combined funded capital is capped at $500,000; passed accounts above that stay on hold until you are back under the limit.

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Merge Accounts
No
No
Minimum Trading Days
  • 1-Step: 3 profitable days
  • 2-Step Fast: 5 profitable days per phase
  • Instant Plus: 5 valid days before payout
  • Hyper Instant: 10 valid days before payout
  • Ability Challenge: 4 days per phase; at least one position must be opened on each of those days
  • Ability One and FTP Instant Funding: no minimum (accounts bought from 2 November 2026)
Monthly Competition
No
Yes
  • 1st Place: 3K + $240K Ability Challenge
  • 2nd Place: 1.5K + $120K Ability Challenge
  • 3rd Place: 500 + $120K Ability Challenge
  • 4th Place: 300 + $60K Ability Challenge
  • 5th Place: 150 + $60K Ability Challenge
  • 6th – 10th Place: $30K Ability Challenge
  • 11th – 25th Place: One-time 30% discount on any Ability Challenge
  • 26th – 50th Place: One-time 15% discount on any Ability Challenge
Minimum Profitable Days

A trading day only counts if it closes with at least 0.5% profit (for example, $50 on a $10,000 account). This applies to every phase and to the instant accounts.

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Maximum Trading Days
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No limit

Expert Advisor (EA)
Yes

EAs are allowed if they comply with every trading rule.

Using an EA does not override the prohibited-strategy rules. The following remain prohibited:

  • Hedging
  • Layering
  • Martingale
  • Grid trading
  • High-frequency trading
  • Trades held for less than 2 minutes
Yes

Only self-developed EAs are permitted. The use of commercial, publicly available, or third-party-created automated trading tools is strictly prohibited.

VPN
No

Each account is limited to one IP address. Contact support before changing location or IP.

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Hedging
No
Yes
Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Limited

All trades must remain open for at least 2 minutes.

Yes
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
No

Layering or stacking orders to manipulate position size or risk is prohibited.

No
Martingale
No
No
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

A maximum floating-loss rule applies to evaluation and funded accounts.

  • First occurrence: soft breach and profit split reduced to 45%.
  • Second occurrence: account termination.
No

Maximum limit of 10 lots per open position. You may open multiple positions, but each individual position cannot exceed 10 lots.

Copy Trading
Limited

Copy trading is allowed between accounts connected to the trader's web-platform login, including accounts across multiple prop firms. Additional prop-firm connections are linked using an OTP sent by email. Copying from signal providers, third-party services or accounts belonging to other traders remains prohibited.

Limited

Internal copying between your own AudaCity accounts is allowed. Copying from third-party accounts (other traders, other firms, signal providers) is not permitted.

News Trading
Limited

Allowed during evaluation, with restrictions on funded and instant accounts.

  • Evaluation: fully allowed.
  • Funded and instant accounts: no new positions from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after high-impact news.
  • Existing positions may remain open.
Limited

Do not open new trades or increase existing ones within 3 minutes before or after high-impact economic releases or official speeches, as this behavior may be considered excessive risk-taking.

Only high-impact FOMC events fall under this restriction; low- and medium-impact FOMC events are exempt. Other major/high-impact news restrictions remain unchanged. This update applies to existing and new accounts across Ability Challenge, Ability One and FTP Instant Funding.

Inactivity Rule

Instant accounts are breached after 21 consecutive calendar days without a trade.

6 months

Consistency Rule
Limited
  • 1-Step, 2-Step Fast and Hyper Instant: no consistency rule
  • Instant Plus: 20%
Yes
  • Ability Challenge: no consistency rule.
  • Ability One: 50%, only at the live (funded) stage.
  • FTP Instant Funding: 35% for payout eligibility. Score = best trading day profit ÷ total net profit × 100. Above 35%, keep trading until the score is 35% or below.

Ability One and FTP rules apply to accounts bought from 2 November 2026.

Hold Weekend
Yes

Allowed on evaluation, funded and instant accounts. The trader assumes the risk of weekend gaps.

Yes
Prohibited Strategies

Hyperticks prohibits strategies that exploit execution or avoid its risk rules.

  • Hedging
  • Layering
  • Martingale
  • Grid trading
  • High-frequency trading
  • External signals, third-party copy trading services and copying accounts belonging to other traders
  • Arbitrage and latency trading
  • Trades held for less than 2 minutes
  • High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
  • Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
  • Martingale Trading
  • Dollar Cost Averaging
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