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

85 Great Portland Street, London, England W1W 7LT, GB

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

2025

2024

Faizan Anees

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.

Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout

Rise: $35

Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested

• 1-Step and 2-Step Fast: every two weeks
• Hyper Instant and Instant Plus: on demand

• By default: Biweekly
• With add-on (+25%): Weekly
• Bolt and Bolt Flex: Biweekly by default; On-Demand Payouts with add-on (+25%)

• 1-Step and 2-Step Fast: $100
• Hyper Instant: $100
• Instant Plus: 6% of the initial account balance

$100

100%

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 30:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 100:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 5:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Lightning (Metatrader 5): 1:1
• Nexus (Metatrader 5): 1:1
• All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic

• Profit Split 90% (+25%)
• Weekly payout (+25%; not available on Bolt or Bolt Flex)
• Allows News Trading (+25%)
• Bolt and Bolt Flex: On-Demand Payouts (+25%)
• Bolt and Bolt Flex: Weekend Holding (+15%), permits weekend holding and trading

• Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: Traders become eligible after reaching a minimum profit of 10% within three months, equivalent to an average monthly gain of around 3.33%. Each approved phase increases the original demo account balance by 20%, up to $1 million on MetaTrader 5 or $1.5 million on ThinkTrader. Assessments take place every three months and require three payouts during each cycle.
• Bolt and Bolt Flex: Reach 10% total profit across four payouts within two months. Each approved scaling phase increases the account balance by 25%, up to $500,000 combined.

• 1-Step: 6%
• 2-Step Fast: 8% static
• Instant Plus: 6% trailing
• Hyper Instant: 6% smart trailing

• Lightning: 6% trailing, locks at initial balance once it grows by 6%
• Bolt: 6% trailing equity, locks at initial balance once it grows by 6%
• Bolt Flex: 7% trailing balance, locks at initial balance once balance grows by 7%
• Dual Step Intraday: 7% static
• Dual Step Swing: 7% static
• Nexus: 8% static

• 1-Step: 80%
• Instant Plus: 70%

See each challenge for the applicable split.

• Standard: 80%
• With add-on (+25%): 90%

• 1-Step: 3%
• 2-Step Fast: 4%
• Instant Plus: 3%
• Hyper Instant: 3%

• 3% balance-based: Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing, Bolt Flex
• 3% equity-based: Bolt, Dual Step Intraday
• All accounts: Soft breach, account disabled for the day, resumes next day at 00:00 MT5 Server Time

• MetaTrader 5: $300,000
• ThinkTrader: $600,000
• Bolt and Bolt Flex with scaling: $500,000 combined

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.

• Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step: 3 days minimum (0.5% profit each)
• Bolt and Bolt Flex: No minimum profitable trading days

• Standard: Bi-weekly (14 days)
• With add-on (+25%): Weekly (7 days)
• Bolt and Bolt Flex: Bi-weekly (14 days); On-Demand Payouts add-on (+25%) available

• All programs except Bolt and Bolt Flex: No consistency rule
• Bolt: 20% best day cap
• Bolt Flex: 25% best day cap

Unlimited

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.

All trades must remain open for at least 2 minutes.

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

Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously

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.

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.

Traders may use copy trading across multiple Think Capital accounts. That said, copying trades from personal accounts or from accounts with other proprietary firms is not allowed.

If you wish to copy trades between different prop firm accounts, your Think Capital account must be set as the primary (master) account.

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.

• Dual Step (Swing): Allowed by default
• Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step (Intraday): Only allowed with add-on
• Bolt and Bolt Flex: Not allowed

Rule for products where news trading requires the add-on:

• No trades, including limit and stop orders, may be executed 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after a high-impact news event (total of 4 minutes).
• Any activity during this 4-minute window will result in immediate termination of the funded agreement, account cancellation, and forfeiture of any profits.

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

30 days

• 1-Step, 2-Step Fast and Hyper Instant: no consistency rule
• Instant Plus: 20%

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

Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: allowed. Bolt and Bolt Flex: require the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%).

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

• Copy Trading
• Grid (Reverse) Trading
• Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
• Collusion Between Users
• Account Sharing, Account Management, or Account Sale
• Latency Arbitrage
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Abuse of a Delayed Data Feed
• Abuse of the Simulated Environment
• Trading on Delayed Charts
• Utilization of Expert Advisors
• Challenge Passing Services
• Martingale Trading
• Use of Guarantee of Compliance with Limit Orders
• Trading in Sanctioned Countries
• Trading Activity: Soft Breaches/Warnings
• Use of Platform or Data Freezing Due to Technical Errors
• News Trading
• Order Layering
• Gambling/Punting