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Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Core Markets LLC, a Delaware company. Address: 211 E 43rd St, 7th Flr #259, New York, NY 10017, United States. Offices in New York, Larnaca (Cyprus) and Dubai (UAE).
United Arab Emirates
United States
2025
2025
Youssef Moussa
Dxfeed
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.
The fee paid is reimbursed with the fourth payout. Purchases are final, except payment errors, undelivered services or mandatory legal rights.
Rise: $35
- 1-Step and 2-Step Fast: every two weeks
- Hyper Instant and Instant Plus: on demand
On demand. After the first payout: 3 days with at least 0.5% realized net profit since the previous payout. No open positions or pending orders; identity verification required.
- 1-Step and 2-Step Fast: $100
- Hyper Instant: $100
- Instant Plus: 6% of the initial account balance
USD 25
Processed within 24 hours after account review and submission of all requested documents. If missed, 100% split for that payout. Bank and blockchain settlement times are excluded.
Up to 50% of profit per request. Capped at USD 2,500 for accounts up to USD 100,000; USD 5,000 for larger accounts. Remaining profit stays in the account.
Paid add-ons: unrestricted funded news trading, 90% or 95% profit split, and Second Try.
From USD 10,000 accounts: 12% profit within 3 months adds 25% of the starting balance. Elite is a separate performance-based benefits program.
- 1-Step: 6%
- 2-Step Fast: 8% static
- Instant Plus: 6% trailing
- Hyper Instant: 6% smart trailing
Static against the initial balance; includes floating losses and costs. Pay After Pass funded accounts have a 6% limit.
- 1-Step: 80%
- Instant Plus: 70%
See each challenge for the applicable split.
- 1-Step: 3%
- 2-Step Fast: 4%
- Instant Plus: 3%
- Hyper Instant: 3%
Recalculated at 00:00 UTC from the higher of balance or equity, minus a fixed amount based on initial capital. Flex and Pay After Pass evaluation have no daily limit; funded Pay After Pass applies 3%.
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.
- 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
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.
1-Step and 2-Step Standard: 3 per phase and in funded. Flex: 5 per phase and in funded. Instant: 5 before the first payout. Pay After Pass: 0 in evaluation and 5 in funded. Each day requires at least 0.5% realized net profit; days need not be consecutive.
The Second Try add-on provides one reset if the account is breached. The rewards program Trader tier includes one free retry.
No time limit to pass the evaluation.
7 XP tiers. Purchases and tasks earn XP; 1% to 20% cashback redeemable for discounts. Annual tier review. Higher tiers retain previous benefits.
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
Each account is limited to one IP address. Contact support before changing location or IP.
Allowed within the same account.
All trades must remain open for at least 2 minutes.
More than 50% of trades held for less than one minute is prohibited.
Layering or stacking orders to manipulate position size or risk is prohibited.
No aggressive scaling outside reasonable limits or 3 or more positions in one losing trading idea. Prior positions must be protected when adding.
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.
Do not use more than 50% of available margin. The firm may impose a 1% maximum risk per trading idea after written notification.
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.
Only between accounts held by the same person, including external accounts. EAs and external copiers are allowed; each account must comply individually.
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.
Unrestricted in evaluation. In funded, no opening or closing from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after high-impact news and FOMC events. The News Trading add-on removes this window. Without it, affected trade profits are removed.
Instant accounts are breached after 21 consecutive calendar days without a trade.
Account closure after 30 days without trades, in both evaluation and funded.
- 1-Step, 2-Step Fast and Hyper Instant: no consistency rule
- Instant Plus: 20%
Checked only at payout: Instant and Pay After Pass, 15%; 1-Step and 2-Step, 30%. Each day counts at its highest net profit reached during the day, even if it closes at a loss. Trading may continue until the ratio is met.
Allowed on evaluation, funded and instant accounts. The trader assumes the risk of weekend gaps.
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
Exploiting pricing or platform errors, latency arbitrage, insider trading, front-running, gambling without a strategy and all-or-nothing trading. The strategy must remain consistent between evaluation and funded.



















