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Suite 302, 2 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Peter Brown, David Bhidey
Ireland
United Arab Emirates
2024
2025
Rise: $35
Standard programs use simulated accounts.
Top performers may be selected for a tailored Live Analyst plan.
- Standard and Expert: Every 14 calendar days from first trade on funded account. Minimum $100.
- Straight to Sim Live: Every 14 calendar days. Minimum 3% of account balance ($450 on $15K, $900 on $30K, $1,800 on $60K, $2,400 on $80K).
Standard and Expert
- $50,000 Account → $5,000
- $100,000 Account → $10,000
- $150,000 Account → $15,000
Straight to Live Sim
- $15K → $3,000
- $30K → $6,000
- $60K → $12,000
- $80K → $15,000
Withdrawals Structure
Withdrawals follow a tier-based structure, where the percentage of profits available for withdrawal increases with each payout:
- Payout 1 → 60% of the total profits (On Standrad and Expert only profits above the buffer count)
- Payout 2 → 70%
- Payout 3 → 80%
- Payout 4 → 90%
- Payout 5 and onwards → 100%
- 25k account: $1,100
- 50k account: $2,000
- 100k account: $3,000
- Standard and Expert: $100
- Straight to Live Sim: 3% of balance
- 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
Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.
The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.
Only available for evaluation accounts
| Account Type | $50,000 Account | $100,000 Account | $150,000 Account |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $79.00 | $125.00 | $199.00 |
| Expert | $125.00 | $225.00 | $299.00 |
Profit Split Increase (+10%)
- Standard: 80% to 90%
- Expert and Direct to Sim Live: 90% to 100%
Remove Daily Drawdown (+10%)
- Only available for Expert account
Booster Tokens can erase eligible losses and restore account progress.
Scaling is available on selected programs and account sizes.
The exact contract limits are shown in each challenge.
EOD (End of Day Balance)
- 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
Standard and Expert Accounts
Tier-based withdrawal structure:
- Payout 1: 60% of amount above buffer zone
- Payout 2: 70%
- Payout 3: 80%
- Payout 4: 90%
- Payout 5+: 100%
Straight to Sim Live
- Base split: 90% trader / 10% firm
- 100% available with checkout add-on
- Same tier-based withdrawal (60→100% per payout)
- Beginner, HYPER and Instant Pro Plus: 90%
- Instant Pro Plus Max: 70%
In all accounts
- 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
5 active accounts across the Evaluation and Funded stages combined, and one Sim Live account
Standard Accounts
- $50,000 Account → $500
- $100,000 Account → $1,000
- $150,000 Account → $1,500
Expert Accounts
- $50,000 Account → $1,000
- $100,000 Account → $1,500
- $150,000 Account → $2,000
Beginner Max requires clearing a buffer before the first payout. The standard Beginner account has no buffer requirement.
- Beginner Max: 30 days to pass the evaluation
- Beginner and HYPER: no evaluation time limit
- Standard evaluation phase: 4 days to pass
- Expert evaluation phase: 3 days to pass
Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.
The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.
Lifetime activation fee
No activation fee.
HTP is Hyperticks' internal loyalty coin for community rewards, services and discounts.
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.
- 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.
Montly fee
One-time purchase.
- No monthly subscription
- No activation fee on the current catalog
- Beginner Max: up to 10 accounts
- Instant Pro Plus Max: up to 10 accounts
- Standard programs, HYPER and Instant Flex: up to 3 accounts
The trader must remain actively involved. The following are prohibited:
- Fully automated bots
- External execution APIs
- External signal mirroring
Micro scalping not allow (trades executed within seconds to under a minute, targeting small profits, typically less than 3 points.
Hyperticks considers repeated trades that are normally held for under 15 seconds and target fewer than 5 ticks to be prohibited microscalping.
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.
Copy trading allowed but NOT enabled by default. Requires submission of a request for review and approval (case-by-case basis). Documentation needed: HTML trading history of master account with 3+ months history, displaying client's own name. Only permitted between accounts owned by the same user.
- 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.
No inactivity rule. Funded accounts will NOT be closed for inactivity. Accounts remain active as long as trading parameters are respected.
- Standard: 30% consistency rule (applies to both Challenge and Funded stages)
- Expert: 40% consistency rule (applies to Funded stage only)
- Straight to Sim Live: 20% consistency rule
- 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
- All or Nothing Approach: max leverage on single position using loss limits as stop-loss
- Tick or Micro Scalping: trades with <10 ticks movement
- Exploiting Favorable Fills (no slippage exploitation, tight brackets)
- Account Rolling
- Reverse Trading (opposite positions on separate accounts)
- Manipulating Gaps and Illiquid Markets
- Group Trading
- Account Management (third-party trading on your behalf)
- Latency Arbitrage
- 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



















