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Al Shohada Road 10055, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, 10055, Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E.

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

Sebastian Ness

2023

2025

Liquidity Provider

Dxfeed

Historically, standard challenges were non-refundable. A newer rule states that evaluation fees purchased after January 9, 2026 are refundable on the 4th payout, while older purchases remain non-refundable.

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.

2% payout fee or a $10 minimum transaction fee per payout.

Rise: $35

1 Step Evaluation and 2 Step

• Instant payout request once requirements are met.

Instant Funding Static

• Base schedule every 14 days.
• Promotional instant requests may apply.

Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later

• Every 14 days.

EA Challenge

• First payout after 4 weeks, then every 2 weeks.

Futures Style

• Instant Funding: payout eligible after 5 days.
• 1 Step Pro Evaluation: payout eligible after 3 days.

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

Payouts are processed within 24 business hours or the trader receives an extra 10% on the profit split.

• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no payout cap.
• Other funded products: usually capped at 5% of the initial balance per payout cycle, depending on the program.

$100 minimum withdrawal. Lower withdrawals may be processed on request with fees deducted.

• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: $250 / $500 / $750 / $1,000 minimum payout on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

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

• Standard challenge accounts: 1:50
• Funded phase: 1:30
• EA Challenge during challenge phase: 1:100

Gold is included in the firm's general leverage framework.

Only the 1 Step Evaluation documents a free reset, available if the funded account is lost within 10 days. Futures Style Instant Funding and Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation show reset availability; no reset fee is stated publicly. Other listed products do not include a free reset.

• +10% Profit Split (+15%)
• Weekly payout (+20%)
• +10% Profit Split + Weekly payout (+30%)
• News trading: Instant Funding Static and 1 Step

• 1 Step Evaluation: 10% maximum drawdown, trailing on end-of-day (EOD) high-watermark.
• EA Challenge uses trailing high-watermark logic.
• 2 Step and Free Challenge use static maximum drawdown.
• Instant Funding Static uses static drawdown.
• Instant Funding Zero: 5% of the initial balance, trailing from the highest recorded equity (high-water mark).
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later funded phase use trailing high-watermark logic.
• Futures Style Instant Funding: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

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

• 1 Step Evaluation: 90%
• 2 Step: 80%
• Instant Funding Static: scales from 50% to 80%
• Instant Funding Zero: 70% from the first payout
• Instant Funding Trailing: 80% from the first payout
• EA Challenge: scales from 50% to 80%
• Buy Now, Pay Later: 80%
• Futures Style Instant Funding: 90%
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: 90%
• Free Challenge funded outcome: 50%

• 1-Step: 80%
• Instant Plus: 70%

See each challenge for the applicable split.

A Free Challenge exists, but it still requires a small activation fee of $1 to $5 and converts into a $5,000 2 Step account if passed.

Soft-breached profit is deducted at payout review. If deductions reduce profit to zero or below, the payout is denied and the account is reset.

Daily drawdown resets at 5 PM EST and is generally recalculated from the higher of balance or equity using the product's initial-balance loss allowance.

• Futures Style Instant Funding: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $2,100 / $3,000 on $50K / $100K / $150K.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $1,800 / $2,700 on $50K / $100K / $150K.

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

No time limits are stated for the 1 Step and 2 Step evaluations. No broader firm-wide maximum duration rule was documented for the other active products reviewed.

Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: 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

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.

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.

EAs are generally prohibited, except on the EA Challenge where they are allowed only during the challenge phase and prohibited once funded.

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.

Scalping is not completely banned, but tick scalping is prohibited and trades should generally remain open for more than 2 minutes.

All trades must remain open for at least 2 minutes.

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

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.

For new accounts purchased after the rule change announced on 30 September 2026, trading high-impact (red-folder) news is prohibited during the 5 minutes before and after the event. A news trading add-on is available at checkout for Instant Funding Static and 1 Step. Accounts purchased before the change retain their previous news trading permissions.

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.

At least one open trade or pending order is required every 30 days to keep the account active.

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

Profit Consistency Rule

• 1 Step Evaluation: no single trading day can make up 50% or more of total profits, in both evaluation and funded phases.
• 2 Step, Instant Funding Static and EA Challenge: a trading day cannot equal or exceed 25% of total profit for the payout period.
• Instant Funding Lite: 15%.
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later: 20%.
• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no consistency rule.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: none in evaluation; 40% in funded status.

There is no lot size consistency rule.

• 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.

• Tick scalping / ultra-short trades
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Latency arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage
• Martingale
• Account management
• Third-party copy trading or mirrored group trading
• Exploiting pricing, execution, latency or platform errors
• Manipulative hedging patterns designed to game payouts or risk limits

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