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L1, Shaw House, 201 Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Somesh Kapuria

Hong Kong

United Arab Emirates

2024

2023

2.5% per payout. Minimum fee: USD 25 for bank wire or Rise; USD 5 for crypto.

$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.

By risk-team invitation; the transition cannot be requested or declined. Eligibility reference: at least ten payouts totaling USD 50,000, with possible earlier invitations. One live account per trader. At most 15% of the sim funded account size transfers; excess profit does not carry over. Paid professional data required.

Prime and Direct sim funded: every seven calendar days from the first trade of the cycle; after a payout the next trade starts a new cycle. Live: daily requests.

• Daily: daily
• One Step Standard, Instant Standard: on demand
• Flex DLL: after 5 winning days
• Flex No DLL: after 6 winning days

Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Time.

Processing within one hour of an eligible request, following a prior review of up to 24 business hours. Business days only; KYC or incomplete details may cause delays.

Within 24 business hours. Get paid in 24 hours or AquaFunded Futures pays you an extra $500.

Prime and Direct sim funded payout caps, ordered first / second / third / fourth and subsequent:

• 25K: USD 1,000 / 1,250 / 1,500 / 2,000.
• 50K: USD 1,500 / 2,000 / 2,500 / 3,000.
• 100K: USD 2,000 / 2,500 / 3,000 / 4,000.
• 150K: USD 2,500 / 3,000 / 4,000 / 5,000.

Daily: maximum daily payout

• $50k: $1,100
• $100k: $2,200
• $150k: $3,300

Instant Standard: payout cap

• $25k: $1,000
• $50k: $2,000
• $100k: $4,000
• $150k: $6,000

One Step Standard: payout cap

• $50k: $2,000, then $2,500
• $100k: $4,000, then $5,000
• $150k: $6,000, then $7,500

Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: payout cap

• $50k: $2,000
• $100k: $2,500
• $150k: $3,000

Prime and Direct sim funded, by size: 25K, USD 250; 50K, USD 500; 100K, USD 1,000; 150K, USD 1,500. Rise requires at least USD 500 of the trader share. Live: USD 500 including the firm share.

• Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $500

KYC, agreement and interview before the first payout; account review for every request and further checks when required. After a payout the loss floor becomes the starting balance: retain enough profit to avoid touching it. Consistency resets even after a partial payout.

Failed challenges can be repurchased at any time. Funded accounts cannot be reset.

Direct Account: funded access without any evaluation phase.

1-Step Prime Challenge: single-phase evaluation with a profit target and consistency requirement.

Live program: whenever accumulated profit reaches 100% of the reference balance, the account grows by 10%. Payouts count toward profit and eligibility is reviewed on payout requests. The Forex scaling ladder does not automatically apply to Futures sim funded.

One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.

Evaluation and sim funded: trails the highest end-of-day balance, not intraday unrealized peaks. It only rises and locks at the starting balance after earning the drawdown distance. A payout fixes the floor at the starting balance even if it had not locked yet. Touching it with balance or equity closes the account.

• Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation and funded stages
• Instant Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown
• One Step Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation

Each product split is listed in its challenge. The live program has its own split and starting-balance release requirements.

Prime evaluation and sim funded: no daily cap. Direct: based on the previous closing balance; reaching it closes positions and pauses trading until the next day, without terminating the account for that isolated event. Maximum-loss breaches still terminate the account.

Combined sim funded and Direct: up to USD 500,000 or five accounts, whichever comes first. Combined Forex and Futures: USD 800,000. One live account may additionally be held.

After a payout the balance must stay above the starting balance, which becomes the loss floor. Withdrawing all profit would leave no room above that limit.

At most five sim funded or Direct accounts, subject to total allocation; one additional live account. Unlimited evaluation purchases.

Unlimited on all plans.

Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.

None on any plan.

One Step Standard: none; the evaluation can be passed in one trading day.

Sim funded: no monthly membership fee; Level 1 data included. Live: professional data, USD 130 per exchange per month or USD 520 for all four, without proration.

One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $0 activation fee.

Prime sim funded: five non-consecutive profitable days in every payout cycle, not only the first. Minimum daily profit: 25K, USD 100; 50K, USD 150; 100K, USD 200; 150K, USD 250. Direct has no profitable-day minimum.

Size-based limits are listed on each challenge. Standard mini:micro ratio is 1:10; Micro Silver has double weighting, and MBT/MET count as minis. No progressive sim funded contract-scaling plan is documented. Live has separate limits.

1-Step Prime is a subscription that renews automatically every 30 days until passing or cancellation. It cannot be paused. Cancellation loses progress and returning requires a new purchase.

Legitimate connections and VPNs outside restricted countries are permitted. Own devices only; travel may require verification. Device or identity sharing may close all accounts.

Stop losses required in sim funded and Direct; without one, a trade is treated as unlimited risk. The per-idea risk rule does not apply during evaluation. No fixed three-minute stop-placement deadline is documented here.

There is no universal minimum holding time. A systematic pattern of sub-three-minute trades without a plan, tick scalping, HFT or latency exploitation is prohibited.

Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.

Sim funded and Direct: 2% of the initial balance per idea on Tradovate, NinjaTrader and WealthCharts; legacy DX Futures accounts use 1%. Not applicable during evaluation. Overlapping positions and same-asset, same-direction re-entries within ten minutes are combined.

Only own Hola Prime challenge or sim funded accounts within the same environment. The lead must have the lowest contract limit. Third-party copiers are used at the trader responsibility; external or other-person accounts cannot be copied.

Copy trading is allowed between accounts owned by the same person. You can copy trades freely across your own AquaFunded Futures accounts without violations for internal account copying.

Evaluation and sim funded: complete at least one round-trip trade within each seven-day period. Live: suspension after 30 calendar days; opening or closing a trade counts as activity.

1-Step Prime Challenge: 40%. Prime funded account: 35%. Direct Account: 20%.

Evaluation Phase

• Daily: 40%
• One Step Standard: none
• Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: 50%

Funded Phase

• Daily: none
• One Step Standard: 40%
• Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: none
• Instant Standard: 20%

Bots and partial or full automation; tick scalping and HFT; arbitrage, latency, errors and low-liquidity exploitation; grid, overexposure, account rolling and unsupported bets; copying external or other-person accounts; cross-account hedging; shared accounts or devices; unjustified strategy or contract-size changes to manipulate evaluations or payouts. Trading within 2% of a CME price limit is prohibited. Violations may forfeit profits and terminate accounts.

• No full automation: bots, AI and hands-off trading are forbidden.
• Auto scalping is limited (>200 trades/day restricted).
• Semi-automation is allowed with active manual control.
• No order manipulation (layering or fake liquidity).
• No exploiting simulated fills, slippage or illiquid markets.
• Follow CME rules; no coordinated accounts.
• Scalping and microscalping require a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.
• Martingale is allowed within risk limits.
• Violations may result in termination and loss of profits.

Close daily before 15:30 CT; the trader must be flat by 15:28 CT without relying on risk-team flattening. Observe earlier agricultural and holiday closes. Sunday-evening to Monday trading belongs to one session and is permitted.