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13 Omonoias Avenue, Limassol 3052, Cyprus (head office); Robin Kelton Building, Choc Bay, Castries, Saint Lucia (registered company).
85 Great Portland Street, London, England W1W 7LT, GB
Tal Fromchenko
Faizan Anees
Cyprus / Saint Lucia
United Kingdom
2025
2024
The simulation fee is refunded on your third successful payout, not at purchase.
Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout
$25 on wire transfer and Revolut. Crypto and debit card vary by provider.
Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested
14300283PasswordN!SbG1KoServerThinkMarkets-DemoSpreadtest@test.comPassword4+5O)z#.)14ETurbo: first payout after 14 calendar days of funded trading, then every 14 days. Sprint: first payout as soon as funded, then every 14 days. Executive: every 14 days from the start of funded trading. Leveraged ONE: every 14 days. Instant and Nitro: every 14 days, with a paid 5-day payout add-on.
- By default: Biweekly
- With add-on (+25%): Weekly
- Bolt and Bolt Flex: Biweekly by default; On-Demand Payouts with add-on (+25%)
100%
$100
1:30 on every program.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 30:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 100:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
1:10 on every program.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
1:3 on Turbo, Sprint, Leveraged ONE and Executive.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
1:8 on every program.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 5:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
1:1 on the Forex/CFD programs.
1:1 on the Forex/CFD programs.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
$4 per lot round trip on forex and metals. No commission on indices, commodities, crypto, stocks or any other asset.
Not available on Leveraged Nitro: a breached account is closed.
Paid at checkout. Instant, Nitro and Leveraged ONE: 5-day payout (+15%) and 95% reward share (+25%). Instant: news trading (+20%). Turbo: profit target reduced to 4% ($10).
- 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.
Trailing on Turbo and Leveraged ONE: follows new closed-balance highs and locks at the starting balance after a 6% gain. Trailing on equity on Instant and Nitro. Static on Sprint and Executive. The percentage for each program is in its challenges.
- 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
80%
- Standard: 80%
- With add-on (+25%): 90%
Calculated from the higher of balance or equity at 23:00 GMT+3. The percentage varies by program and is shown in its challenges.
- 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 evaluation time limit on any current program.
Unlimited
Loyalty credits can be exchanged for checkout coupons. Credits and coupons expire at the end of the following month.
Executive: three non-consecutive days with at least 0.5% net profit per evaluation phase and before funded payouts. Turbo and Leveraged ONE: three such days before funded payouts. Instant and Nitro: five days with at least 0.5% profit each before requesting a reward. Sprint: none.
- 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
Only EAs you built and control yourself, plus risk and trade-management tools. Commercial EAs are banned, including bought, rented, licensed or publicly distributed ones, however much they have been modified.
Allowed while you remain the verified holder and sole operator. It cannot be used to share access, hide your identity or location, or get around geographic restrictions.
Genuine scalping is allowed. High-frequency, tick and repetitive micro-duration trading are prohibited; positions are expected to stay open for at least two minutes as a benchmark.
Scaling in or out and multiple entries are allowed for a genuine trade thesis. Layering or re-entry to hide concentrated risk or manipulate payout eligibility is prohibited.
Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously
Grid, martingale and anti-martingale escalation are prohibited.
Only between accounts registered in your own name, whether at Leveraged, another prop firm or a retail broker. Copying between different people, family included, is 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.
Blocked on every program except Sprint and Instant accounts with the paid news trading add-on. You cannot open, increase, or fully or partially close a position in the five minutes before or after a high-impact release, pending orders included. A position opened earlier may stay open through it.
- 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.
30 days without opening and closing a trade and the account is closed.
30 days
20% at payout on funded Turbo and Leveraged ONE accounts and on Leveraged Instant: the best day cannot exceed 20% of total profit. No consistency rule during evaluation or on Sprint, Nitro and Executive.
Genuine swing trading and overnight or weekend holding are allowed. Strategies built to exploit expected gaps are prohibited. Hedged or offsetting positions within the same account may not be held overnight or over the weekend.
Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: allowed. Bolt and Bolt Flex: require the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%).
High-frequency and tick scalping; latency or price-feed arbitrage; market-gap and restricted-news exploitation; cross-account hedging or coordination; third-party signals or account management; grid and martingale; payout manipulation and platform abuse.
- 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


















