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Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
2025
2023
Rise: $35
$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.
Standard programs use simulated accounts.
Top performers may be selected for a tailored Live Analyst plan.
- 25k account: $1,100
- 50k account: $2,000
- 100k account: $3,000
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
- 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
- Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $500
- 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.
Within 24 business hours. Get paid in 24 hours or AquaFunded Futures pays you an extra $500.
Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.
The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.
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.
One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.
- 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
- 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
- Beginner, HYPER and Instant Pro Plus: 90%
- Instant Pro Plus Max: 70%
- 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
Beginner Max requires clearing a buffer before the first payout. The standard Beginner account has no buffer requirement.
- Beginner Max: up to 10 accounts
- Instant Pro Plus Max: up to 10 accounts
- Standard programs, HYPER and Instant Flex: up to 3 accounts
- Beginner Max: 30 days to pass the evaluation
- Beginner and HYPER: no evaluation time limit
Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.
Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.
The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.
One Step Standard: none; the evaluation can be passed in one trading day.
No activation fee.
One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $0 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.
One-time purchase.
- No monthly subscription
- No activation fee on the current catalog
The trader must remain actively involved. The following are prohibited:
- Fully automated bots
- External execution APIs
- External signal mirroring
Hyperticks considers repeated trades that are normally held for under 15 seconds and target fewer than 5 ticks to be prohibited microscalping.
Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.
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 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.
- 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.
- 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
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%
- 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
- 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.



















