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2026-10

2024

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

Faizan Anees

United Kingdom

No refund after credentials are sent; support may authorize exceptions if no trades were placed. No fee refund for passing is published.

Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout

Every 14 days. One and Two: first payout after 14 days. Instant: first after qualifying profitable days. Signature: 14-day waiting period for each payout. Paid via Rise or crypto; store credit is also available, irrevocable and expires after one year.

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

Signature: maximum 3% of balance per payout.

1% of balance on Instant, One and Two; Signature does not publish a specific minimum.

$100

Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested

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

Liquidity-provider commissions vary by instrument and platform; check specifications.

Payout Protector: +25%. Remove Lock on Payout: +25%, only One and Instant. Optional; table prices exclude add-ons.

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

Static on One, Two and Signature. Instant: trailing on the highest end-of-day balance; retains its pre-payout level unless Remove Lock on Payout is purchased. One also retains its pre-payout level. Instant requires a 5% non-withdrawable buffer.

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

Based on balance; monitor the breach level in the dashboard.

• Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing, Bolt: 3% Balance-based (Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing) / 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 with scaling: $500,000

No fixed count; the $1 million limit is shared across evaluations, funded accounts and markets.

No evaluation deadline; the inactivity limit applies.

Unlimited

Checkout specifies no fixed minimum evaluation days; consistency may require additional days.

Instant: 7 days. One and Two: 4 days with at least 0.25% daily profit. Signature: no specific requirement is published.

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

• 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: Reach 10% total profit across four payouts within two months. Each approved scaling phase increases the account balance by 25%, up to $500,000.

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

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

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

The FAQ permits proprietary automation subject to restrictions, but the checkout catalogue flags EAs as disallowed. Obtain written confirmation for the selected plan and platform before using automation.

Permitted within one account. Coordinated opposing positions across accounts or firms are prohibited.

Tick harvesting, full porting and sub-minute positions at or near the contract limit are prohibited.

No universal per-trade percentage is published; gambling, all-in and abuse of margin, leverage or contract limits are prohibited.

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Signals, passing services, group trading and EAs facilitating copy trading are 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.

Existing positions may remain open. No opening or closing within 3 minutes before or after high-impact news. Consequences include P&L removal, reduced leverage or account termination.

• Dual Step (Swing): Allowed by default
• Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step (Intraday): Only allowed with add-on
• Bolt: 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.

Account closes after 30 consecutive days without trading.

30 days

One: 50% in evaluation and funded. Signature: 50% funded only. Instant: 18%. Two: no consistency rule. The best day cannot exceed that share of total profit; continue trading until compliant.

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

Cross-account arbitrage, latency or pricing-error exploitation, insider trading, front-running, third-party passing strategies and changing strategy between evaluation and funded trading. All-in, gambling and excessive exposure are prohibited. Trading is reviewed before funded account issuance.

• 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

Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously