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Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Suite 302, 2 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
United Arab Emirates
Ireland
2025
2024
Peter Brown, David Bhidey
Rise: $35
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
Flex: 50% of cycle profits, capped at $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000 for $50K / $100K / $150K. Direct: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $3,500 per request for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
- 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
Flex: $500 / $1,000 / $1,500 for $50K / $100K / $150K. Direct: $500 on all sizes.
Flex: every 5 winning days. Direct: on demand once the profit goal and payout rules are met. Processing within 2 business days.
Direct: reach the overall profit goal of $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K before requesting a payout. Remaining profits provide the drawdown cushion after withdrawal.
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.
Flex only, selected at checkout: increase split to 100% (+15% fee), remove daily loss limit (+15%), or add $250 to maximum loss allowance (+15%). All three: +35%. No add-ons on Direct.
Scaling is available on selected programs and account sizes.
The exact contract limits are shown in each challenge.
- 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
EOD trailing, calculated on closing balance. After a withdrawal, the maximum-loss floor locks permanently at the initial starting balance.
- Beginner, HYPER and Instant Pro Plus: 90%
- Instant Pro Plus Max: 70%
Flex and Direct use a fixed split instead of the former payout tiers. Flex offers an optional 100% split at checkout.
- 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
Soft breach: reaching the daily limit pauses trading for the rest of the day. Direct $25K has no daily loss limit; Flex can remove it with an add-on.
Maximum 5 active accounts across Flex evaluation, Flex funded and Direct combined.
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
Flex evaluation: 30 days; paid extensions available in the dashboard. Direct: no evaluation time limit.
Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.
The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.
Flex evaluation: no fixed minimum, but the 50% consistency rule applies. Direct: no evaluation.
No activation fee.
No activation fee or recurring subscription.
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.
Flex payouts require 5 winning days: at least $150 / $200 / $250 daily profit for $50K / $100K / $150K.
- 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
One-time payment. No recurring monthly subscription.
Unlimited paid resets during Flex evaluation only. No resets on Flex funded or Direct accounts.
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.
Micro scalping not allow (trades executed within seconds to under a minute, targeting small profits, typically less than 3 points.
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.
EA and copy trading enabled by default on Flex and Direct, subject to trading rules.
- 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
Flex evaluation: best day at most 50% of evaluation profit. Flex funded: at most 40% of cycle profit, reset after each payout. Direct: at most 25% of total returns. Exceeding the ratio delays passing or payouts; it does not breach the account.
- 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
- 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
At least 1 trade every 2 weeks; after inactivity, a reminder gives 1 additional week before closure. Applies to evaluation and funded accounts.



















