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Headquarters

Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Country

United Arab Emirates

United States

Foundation

2025

2022

Banned Countries
Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Bahamas, Barbados, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Region of Crimea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Iraq, Jamaica, Laos, Liberia, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Congo, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen
CEO
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Kanwal Singh

Assets
Equity Index Futures, Currency Futures, Metal Futures, Energy Futures, Agricultural Futures, Crypto Futures, Interest Rate Futures
Indices, Forex, Commodities, Crypto, Futures
Payout Fee

Rise: $35

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Platforms
TradingView, DeepCharts, DeepDOM, Volumetrica, ATAS, TradeSea
NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Rithmic, R | Trader, ATAS, Bookmap, EdgeProX, eSignal, Finamark, Investor/RT, MotiveWave, Quantower, Sierra Chart, Tickblaze
Payout Methods
Rise, Crypto
Transfer, Crypto
Live Account
Yes

Standard programs use simulated accounts.

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

Yes

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.

Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, PayPal
Card
Maximum Withdrawal
  • 25k account: $1,100
  • 50k account: $2,000
  • 100k account: $3,000

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.

Minimum Withdrawal
  • 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

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

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

Payout Guarantee
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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.

Other Payout Requirements
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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.

Commission

Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.

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

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.

Add-ons
Yes

Booster Tokens can erase eligible losses and restore account progress.

Yes

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.

Instant
Yes
Yes

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

One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
Limited

Scaling is available on selected programs and account sizes.

The exact contract limits are shown in each challenge.

Limited

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

Max Drawdown
  • 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

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.

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

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

Free Trial
No
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Daily Drawdown
  • 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

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.

Max Allocation
1,000,000
750,000
Mandatory buffer
Limited

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

Yes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Minimum Trading Days

Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.

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

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.

Funded Phase Pricing Model

No activation fee.

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.

Points Reward Program

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

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

Minimum Profitable Days

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.

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.

Position size scaling
Yes
  • 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.

Limited

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

Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

One-time purchase.

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

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.

Account Reset
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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.

Merge Accounts
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Limited

LIVE ELITE: merge or split accounts with approval.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

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

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

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

Hedging
No
No
Requires Stop Loss
No
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Scalping
Limited

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

Limited

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

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Yes

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

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

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.

Copy Trading
No
Limited

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

News Trading
Limited
  • 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.
Yes
Consistency Rule
Limited
  • 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
Limited

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.

Hold Weekend
No
Limited

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

Prohibited Strategies
  • 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

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.

Overnight positions
No
Limited

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

VPN
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No

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

Martingale
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No

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

Inactivity Rule
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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.

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