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Brighton, Colorado (USA). Representative address in Joué-lès-Tours, France, not open to the public.

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

Faizan Anees

United States

United Kingdom

2024

Challenges: the fee is refunded after passing, 50% with the first payout (which must be at least 1% of the account size) and 50% with the second. Not available on instant funding. A purchase is only refunded if requested within 7 days with no trading.

Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout

No firm fee; network or bank fees are paid by the trader.

Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested

100%

Every 14 days. Instant funding: first payout after 20 days per the rules (product pages say 4 weeks), then every 14 days. Two consecutive non compliant requests may suspend the account.

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

Paid within 14 days of the request at most. Once approved, payment takes 24 to 72 business hours (USDT usually within 24 hours; bank transfer up to 5 business days).

$100 or the equivalent in euros, with any method.

$100

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

1:100; palladium 1:50.

• 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

1:100; Nikkei 225 and ASX 200 1:50.

• 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

Paid, from the dashboard. In the challenge, about 50% of the price and back to phase 1 or 2. On a funded account, full price and funded status is kept. Usually applied within 24 hours.

At checkout: news trading (+20% of the price) and no mandatory stop loss (+30%).

• 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

Funded account with no evaluation, with a profit cap and its own profit split ladder that starts lower.

1 Phase Challenge.

On request from the dashboard, after several profitable periods on a funded account. Decided case by case based on consistency and rule compliance, at no cost.

• 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.

2 Phase Challenge.

Static, measured on the initial capital. Breaching it suspends the account.

• 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

Rises with each payout. Challenges: 70%, 75%, 80%, 85% and 90% from the fifth. Instant funding: 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70% and 90% from the sixth.

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

Free Trial 10K, no card needed: 8% target, 5% daily and 10% total loss, no mandatory stop loss. One per email every 30 days; after passing, the account stays open for 24 hours and pays nothing.

Measured on the initial capital, including floating losses; per its forum it resets at midnight UTC. Breaching it suspends the account.

• 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

$1,000,000 per account and $3,000,000 combined.

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

Several accounts at once up to the maximum combined capital. Each one is evaluated separately.

No time limit. The challenge must be activated within 30 days of purchase.

Unlimited

Evaluation: 2 days. Funded account: 14 days before each payout; a day only counts if a trade is opened and closed on it. If a payout is refused, the counter resets.

Funded account: 7 of the 14 minimum days. In evaluation, the FAQ and its comparisons ask for 2 profitable days; the rules page says 2 trading days.

• 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

Allowed if declared. Undeclared EAs, HFT and abusive AI are prohibited.

VPN and VPS are prohibited; detection suspends the account.

Prohibited, including across accounts.

Mandatory when opening and closing every trade. One trade without a stop is tolerated; the second one suspends the account. Can be removed with the paid add-on.

Trades under 100 seconds or under 1.5 pips count as prohibited scalping; repeated trades of 2 pips or less are reviewed.

Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously

Per trade: maximum loss of 2% and maximum profit of 3%.

Copying between your own accounts does not count for payouts. Under the "Be copied" program, copied profit can be at most 50% of the eligible profit.

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.

No opening or closing (including a triggered SL/TP) 10 minutes before and after 3 star releases on the TradingView calendar, any currency and symbol. A position opened before the release may be held. Allowed with the paid add-on.

• 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.

Closed after 15 consecutive days without trading, or suspended after 40 days in loss.

30 days

When requesting a payout, no single trade may exceed 25% of total profit (if it does, the payout is held until rebalanced) and no instrument 80%. Each trade must also be between 1/4 and 2 times the largest lot already used on the account.

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

HFT and scalping under 100 seconds or under 1.5 pips, martingale, hedging (including across accounts), grid, latency and quote arbitrage, gap trading, exploiting price or platform errors, abusive AI, undeclared EAs, overexposure or gambling, account rolling and third party trading.

• 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