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

Somesh Kapuria

Kanwal Singh

Hong Kong

United States

2024

2022

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

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.

Transition at ETF discretion, including early conversion. Review at 5 payouts, 50 ATDs or $25,000 combined. Sim accounts close; assigned live capital differs from nominal sim balances. Eligible unpaid sim profits enter the Vault with conditional releases. Failure to accept conversion within 3 business days results in a partial payment and a 2-year ban. Rithmic-compatible platforms; Tradovate and NinjaTrader are unavailable in live.

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.

Sim-funded: processed Mondays and Wednesdays after meeting each cycle's ATDs. LIVE ELITE: requests on business days; Vault releases follow a separate schedule.

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.

Approval of eligible rewards or initiation of a LIVE ELITE transition within 48 business hours. Transfer initiation and bank receipt are not guaranteed. $1,000 compensation if ETF misses the deadline; ETF chooses the compensation method. Completed KYC and Rise verification and accounts in good standing required. Excludes weekends, US bank or federal holidays, system downtime and third-party delays.

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.

Maximum per cycle, in USD:
1 Step 50K: 1000/1250/1500/1750; 100K: 1250/1500/1750/2000; 150K: 1500/1750/2000/2250
Static 10K: 500/500/500/1000; 25K: 750/1000/1250/1500; 50K: 1250/1500/1750/2000
EOD 50K: 1250/1500/1750/2000; 100K and Diamond Hands 100K: 1750/2000/2250/2500
Fast Track EOD: 500/750/1000; Static: 750/1000/1250. Three cycles; total 2250/3000 per the specific guide
DTF 10K: 1200 per cycle; 50K: 2500/2500/5000/5000; 100K: 1500/2500/3500/5000
Outside Fast Track: the fourth limit continues; combined sim cap of $25,000 per trader per round, with a $150,000 lifetime cap across all sim rounds. LIVE ELITE: uncapped above the assigned starting balance.

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.

1 Step: $250. Static, EOD, Diamond Hands and Fast Track: $100. DTF 10K/100K: $500; DTF 50K: $1,000. LIVE ELITE: $250.

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.

KYC and Rise onboarding with matching personal details. Country must be supported by payment providers and the live broker. Guam, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands are unsupported. Active account and approved audit; wait for approval before resuming trading. Minimum age: 18 or the local age of majority, whichever is higher. Complete KYC within 5 days of submitting documents; ETF may deny rewards if this is not met. An audio or video interview of up to 60 minutes may be required. In sim, withdraw the cycle maximum and meet its ATDs to advance to the next cycle; ATDs reset. Dashboard payout requirements prevail in a conflict.

Per contract, per side: ES/NQ/YM $2.04; MES $0.56; MNQ $0.51; CL $2.26; MCL $0.76; GC $2.31; MGC $0.76; BTC $6.76; MBT $2.76; ETH $5.76; MET $0.46. Other rates depend on the contract. LIVE ELITE: minis $2 and micros $0.62, plus exchange fees.

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

Standard evaluations: manual reset or automatic reset on renewal of a failed account. Fast Track: no evaluation reset. Sim-funded and DTF: up to 10 resets per account. LIVE ELITE: no resets.

Direct Account: funded access without any evaluation phase.

DTF: direct access to sim-funded, without an evaluation.

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.

LIVE ELITE: capital adjustments at the risk team's discretion.

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.

1 Step: intraday trailing, including open profit. EOD, Diamond Hands, Fast Track EOD and DTF 10K/50K: trailing at session close on realized profit. Static, Fast Track Static and DTF 100K: fixed floor. Sim-funded trailing locks at the safety net, with a floor at starting balance + $100; the Static floor stays unchanged.

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

The sim-account split is a maximum, subject to approval and payout limits. LIVE ELITE: 80% to the trader.

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.

EOD and Diamond Hands: daily limit with a hard breach; TradeShield can turn it into a daily lockout. In sim-funded it stops applying after reaching the safety net. Other plans have no base daily limit.

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.

Non-withdrawable safety net: account drawdown + $100 in realized profit. Funded terms: reach it within 45 calendar days. One-time payment, including DTF: 25 days; one 3-day cure period if it is not reached or is later lost. It must be maintained; failure closes the account without a refund.

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

Current evaluations: up to 5 active Elite Sim-Funded accounts. DTF: a separate limit of 5 active accounts per trader. Fast Track EOD: 1 per the specific guide, although the store shows 5. One registration per trader and one trader per household.

LIVE ELITE: merge or split accounts with approval.

Unlimited on all plans.

Standard evaluation: no maximum deadline while the subscription remains active. Fast Track: 10 calendar days.

None on any plan.

Standard evaluation: 5 days; One Day to Pass reduces this to 1. Fast Track: 3 days. DTF: no evaluation. Sunday and Monday count as one 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.

Rithmic: an additional $45/month per active account, also during evaluation. Professional data: $128 per exchange, subject to change. Non-professional level 1 data included; level 2 and optional platform licenses are extra. LIVE ELITE: $197/month per exchange and first account; each additional account, $197/month. ETF covers exchange fees after 3 months. The initial evaluation payment and add-ons are credited to the sim balance on activation, not as ATD profit; DTF excluded.

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.

Standard sim and Fast Track: 8 ATDs for the first cycle and 10 thereafter. Standard purchases from 2 October 2026 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time: each ATD requires $250 and at least 30% of the best day; Static 10K/25K, $125. DTF per cycle: 10K, 5 ATDs with $150 and 50% of the best day; 50K, 15 ATDs with $600 and 62%; 100K, 20 ATDs with $500 and 50%. Fast Track has separate consistency criteria; its guide does not specify a daily dollar 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.

Evaluation and sim-funded: fixed product limits. LIVE ELITE: contract limits reviewed based on performance; first review after 20 trading days.

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.

Standard evaluations: renewal every 30 days until passing and activation; passing does not cancel billing. Fast Track: one-time payment without renewal. First-purchase guarantee: request within 7 days, fewer than 5 trades and no account failure; conditions apply.

One Day to Pass, TradeShield, PriceSlash and Double Down Deal (3D), subject to eligibility. Fast Track is excluded from One Day to Pass and 3D. PriceSlash: a 90% coupon for another evaluation of the same type after passing and activation; redeem within 90 days, with the discount retained on renewals. 3D: prepaid monthly activation; a 3-month option for the price of 2, with benefits forfeited on cancellation. Depending on the add-on: monthly billing while the account remains active, without separate cancellation, or a one-time charge until account failure.

2 points per dollar on eligible evaluation purchases and evaluation resets. DTF and funded resets excluded.

Bots, AI and algorithms require written authorization. Approved copiers do not authorize automated strategies.

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

VPN, VPS, proxies and IP masking prohibited, except expressly authorized ranges from approved providers.

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.

Every trade must last at least 10 seconds, without exceptions.

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.

After reaching 20% sim profit, losing more than 35% of accumulated profit allows ETF to remove the account from the sim program and disqualifies it from LIVE ELITE. Includes payout adjustments and overrides the original drawdown. Reviewed during audits or reward requests. LIVE ELITE applies additional risk-team controls.

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.

Only own accounts and authorized copiers: native tools, Tradesyncer, Tradecopia, Affordable Indicators and Replikanto PropFirm Compliance. LIVE ELITE requires approval.

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.

One genuine trade every 7 days per account; an approved break is available once per quarter. Log in at least every 30 days. Scratch trades and prolonged lack of progress can lead to closure and forfeited payouts.

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

Fast Track: best day cannot exceed 40% of total profit in evaluation or 30% for payouts. Other plans use the ATD qualifying rule rather than that total-profit cap.

Allowed on Diamond Hands and DTF. Other plans: close one minute before market close.

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.

Abusive HFT, arbitrage, exploiting execution errors or low liquidity, wash trading, collusion, trading for others, manipulating ATDs or payouts, and simultaneously stacking maximum mini and micro limits.

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.

Allowed on Diamond Hands and DTF. Other plans: close one minute before market close.

Includes DCA, adding to losing positions or increasing exposure after losses in identical or related instruments.