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Jelle Dijkstra

2023

2025

Prime Program requires Risk approval: eligible after 5 payouts on one account (the SIM account maximum), 10 across accounts, or 20% profit on one account. Only accounts with at least one payout move to Live. Choose Live or a cash-out of 50% of MLL per eligible account within 24 hours; no answer means Live. SIM accounts close and evaluations pause. Cash-out or a Live breach: 21 days without new purchases or resuming evaluations. Live starts at $0 with real capital, EOD drawdown, 80% split, daily payouts and no consistency rule. One Live trader per household; other household members cannot hold SIM Funded accounts.

Standard programs use simulated accounts.

Top performers may be selected for a tailored Live Analyst plan.

• BrightPlus: up to one approved payout per session; first payout from 24 hours after the first trade. Each subsequent payout requires fresh closed profit of 1% of the original account size.
• BrightCore: winning-day cycles, counted again from the next full session after each payout.

Processing within 24 business hours of the request.

Per request: 25K $1,000; 50K $2,000; 100K $3,000; 150K $4,000.

• BrightPlus: also limited to the balance above the buffer.
• BrightCore: the lowest of the size cap, 50% of current profit, and balance minus (starting balance + $100). The 2x addon doubles only the size cap.

• 25k account: $1,100
• 50k account: $2,000
• 100k account: $3,000

Minimum request: $250, before the profit split.

• Beginner and HYPER: $250
• Instant Pro Plus and Instant Flex: 1% of the starting balance
• Instant Pro Plus Max: $500 / $750 / $1,000 for 25K / 50K / 100K

At least 18 or the higher local age of majority. Sumsub KYC and a signed contract before SIM Funded activation, within 24 hours of completing both. One profile per person. The minimum trade duration rule must be met in each payout cycle. USDC on ERC-20 or bank transfer.

Rise: $35

Per contract, per side, USD, all fees included: ES/NQ/RTY/YM 2.88; MES/MNQ/M2K/MYM 0.95; NKD/ZC/ZL/ZW 3.65; 6A/6B/6C/6E/6J/6N/6S/NG 3.10; M6A/M6B/M6E 0.84; CL 3.00; MCL 1.20; QM 2.70; QG 2.00; GC/SI/HG/PL 3.15; MGC 1.30; HE/LE 3.60; ZS/ZM 3.63. Round trip: twice these rates.

Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.

The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.

After a breach, within the time shown on the dashboard. Restarts evaluation even from SIM Funded, keeping the account number and addons. Costs 55% of the current list price including addons; addons cannot change and the hedging warning is not restored.

Optional at purchase, with additive surcharges on the base price: 100% Profit Split +20%; 2x Payout Cap +40%; BrightCore only, 3 Day Payout Cycle +20%. Targets, drawdown and contracts do not change.

Booster Tokens can erase eligible losses and restore account progress.

• BrightPlus: intraday trailing on peak equity, including open profit. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 once equity reaches the buffer.
• BrightCore: trailing on the highest closing balance, updated between 4:45 and 5:59 PM ET. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 on the first approved payout, even if previously higher.
  No lock during evaluation. Touching the floor with live equity breaches the account at any time.

• Beginner and Beginner Max: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
• HYPER Intra: intraday trailing drawdown
• HYPER Lite and HYPER Pro: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
• Instant Pro Plus and Instant Pro Plus Max: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
• Instant Flex: 4% intraday trailing drawdown; it moves to break-even after the first payout

The split applies to each requested amount; the full request is deducted from the account balance.

• Beginner, HYPER and Instant Pro Plus: 90%
• Instant Pro Plus Max: 70%

No separate daily loss limit.

• Beginner: soft daily loss pause
• Beginner Max: hard daily loss breach
• HYPER Intra, Lite and Pro: no daily loss limit during evaluation or simulated funded phase
• Instant Pro Plus: soft daily loss pause
• Instant Pro Plus Max: hard daily loss breach
• Instant Flex: no daily loss limit

BrightPlus: starting balance + MLL + $100, retained after every payout. Only closed profit counts. Falling below pauses payouts without breaching the account. BrightCore has no such buffer.

Beginner Max requires clearing a buffer before the first payout. The standard Beginner account has no buffer requirement.

Up to 5 active SIM Funded accounts across all plans and sizes. Unlimited evaluations. With all 5 slots used, another evaluation pass waits until a slot opens.

• Beginner Max: up to 10 accounts
• Instant Pro Plus Max: up to 10 accounts
• Standard programs, HYPER and Instant Flex: up to 3 accounts

No time limit, subject to inactivity rules.

• Beginner Max: 30 days to pass the evaluation
• Beginner and HYPER: no evaluation time limit

No explicit minimum. Consistency requires at least 2 sessions on BrightPlus and 3 on BrightCore in practice.

Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.

The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.

Trade2Earn: activity earns BrightTokens redeemable for perks and evaluations, with no cash value. On Live, Prime Ladder pays bonuses every 10 winning days through Diamond (80 days); Prime Trader at 90 is status only. Total bonuses per account: 25K $5,000; 50K $10,000; 100K $20,000; 150K $30,000. Losing days and payouts preserve progress; an account breach resets it.

HTP is Hyperticks' internal loyalty coin for community rewards, services and discounts.

• BrightPlus: no winning-day requirement.
• BrightCore SIM: 5 per payout, or 3 with the addon. Minimum closed net profit per session: 25K $100; 50K $200; 100K and 150K $300. Days need not be consecutive; at most one per session.

The number of qualifying days depends on the program and payout.

• Beginner: 5 winning days
• HYPER: 5 winning days
• Instant Pro Plus and Instant Pro Plus Max: 10 / 8 / 6 / 5 qualifying days from the first through fourth payout
• Instant Flex: 6 qualifying days

The required daily profit varies by program and account size.

Scaling is available on selected programs and account sizes.

The exact contract limits are shown in each challenge.

No activation fee.

• Beginner evaluation: contracts scale at 1:10.
• Beginner simulated funded: contracts scale at 1:5.
• HYPER: reduced contract limits apply in the funded phase.

Exact limits vary by program and account size.

One-time purchase.

• No monthly subscription
• No activation fee on the current catalog

Only exclusively self-authored software with no third-party access. It must not mirror another trader, be a black box or run simultaneously at other firms. Source-code review may be required.

The trader must remain actively involved. The following are prohibited:

• Fully automated bots
• External execution APIs
• External signal mirroring

VPN/VPS allowed without concealing identity or location or bypassing country restrictions. Only the owner may trade the account.

Prohibited within and across your accounts, including different expiries, mini/micro and correlated instruments in the same group. First occurrence: warning, positions closed and profit removed while losses remain. Second: account breach. One warning per evaluation and one over the lifetime of SIM, not renewed by payouts or resets. Both accounts are penalized for a cross-account hedge.

More than 50% of net winning-trade profit must come from trades held longer than 15 seconds. Partial fills count separately. Equality is insufficient. Noncompliance delays passing or blocks payouts without breaching the account; the calculation restarts after each payout. Exploitative tick scalping and HFT are prohibited.

Hyperticks considers repeated trades that are normally held for under 15 seconds and target fewer than 5 ticks to be prohibited microscalping.

Only between your BrightFunded accounts within the same profile. Copying others, signals or group trading is a hard breach.

• No new trades from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after a Tier 1 release.
• Existing positions may remain open.
• Stop-loss and take-profit levels cannot be modified during that window.

Open a new trade every 30 calendar days in evaluation and every 7 trading sessions in SIM, excluding holidays. Closing, editing and unfilled pending orders do not count. Advance warning; missing the deadline deactivates the account as a hard breach.

Evaluation only: best session / total net profit, up to 50% on BrightPlus and 40% on BrightCore. Includes commissions and losing days. Recalculated at session close; equality is allowed. Delays passing without breaching the account. Does not apply in SIM.

• Beginner and Beginner Max evaluation: 35%
• Beginner and Beginner Max simulated funded: 40%
• HYPER Intra, Lite and Pro: no consistency rule
• Instant Pro Plus and Instant Pro Plus Max: no consistency rule
• Instant Flex: no consistency rule

Exploiting simulated prices, latency, fills or liquidity; arbitrage, spoofing, layering, abusive HFT, oversized one-way bets, account rolling, third-party management and risk or size changes inconsistent with normal trading. Terms allow affected profits to be removed, extra limits imposed or accounts closed.

• Repeated microscalping
• Fully automated trading
• External signal mirroring
• Price-feed, latency or fill exploitation
• Simultaneous orders intended to manipulate queue priority
• Hedging correlated instruments
• Gambling or random trading
• Risking more than 2% on one trade idea
• Bypassing contract limits across instruments

Automatic close at 4:45 PM ET, Monday to Friday, without a breach for auto-close. CME session runs from 6:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET the next day; holiday cutoffs may be earlier.

Scaling into positions is allowed within the program's contract limit. Splitting exposure across multiple instruments to bypass the applicable contract limit is prohibited.

• Risk above 2% on a single trade idea is prohibited.
• The contract limits of each account and program also apply.