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Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Christoph Radecker
Saint Lucia
United Arab Emirates
2025
Elite trades real capital by risk-team invitation; standard Funded accounts use simulated capital.
Standard programs use simulated accounts.
Top performers may be selected for a tailored Live Analyst plan.
Core and Instant: every 10 active sessions. Rapid Daily: after one session; Rapid Futures 3D: every 3 sessions. Rapid closes after the fifth payout.
The website advertises processing within 48 hours or a 100% split on that payout. Bank transfer or USDC ERC-20 according to the help center.
Up to 50% of profits per request, before the split. Core/Instant 50K: $1,500/$2,000/$2,500 for payouts 1-2/3-4/5+; 100K: $2,000/$2,500/$3,000. Rapid Daily 50K: $1,000 for the first two, then $1,500; 100K: $1,500/$2,000. Rapid 3D 50K: $2,000; 100K: $2,000 for the first two, then $3,000. After the first payout, new profits of at least 50% of the next requested amount are required.
- 25k account: $1,100
- 50k account: $2,000
- 100k account: $3,000
No published minimum.
- 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
Rise: $35
Per contract per side: dxFeed $0.75 micro / $2 mini; Tradovate $0.80 / $2.88. CME L1 included; other exchanges and L2 cost extra. Tradovate is limited to DLL accounts; evaluations cannot migrate.
Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.
The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.
Evaluation resets and up to two funded or Instant resets. Help articles exclude promotional accounts from resets, although the Welcome Futures checkout displays a reset price. Confirm before purchasing a Welcome reset.
Discretionary invitation to Elite with real capital and individual limits. The website also advertises a waiting list; automatic scaling is not guaranteed.
Scaling is available on selected programs and account sizes.
The exact contract limits are shown in each challenge.
EOD trailing: the threshold follows the highest closing value and never decreases. It locks at the initial balance when reached or after the first payout. Subsequent loss room consists of the profits left in the account.
- 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
Core DLL and funded Rapid Daily: the checkout specifies one soft closure and account termination on the second breach. Older Core DLL articles still describe an immediate hard breach.
- 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
Core and Instant: up to 10 funded accounts. Rapid: up to 5. One Welcome account per user. Unlimited evaluations; passed accounts can wait for an activation slot. Futures limits are separate from CFD/crypto limits.
- Beginner Max: up to 10 accounts
- Instant Pro Plus Max: up to 10 accounts
- Standard programs, HYPER and Instant Flex: up to 3 accounts
New purchases: 90-day evaluation; Instant accounts have no expiry. No monthly renewal fees for purchases from 22 October 2026 at 18:00. Older accounts retain their renewal terms.
- Beginner Max: 30 days to pass the evaluation
- Beginner and HYPER: no evaluation time limit
Core: no minimum evaluation days. Rapid: the help center specifies 3 evaluation days and consistency.
Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.
The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.
Booster Tokens can erase eligible losses and restore account progress.
- Beginner, HYPER and Instant Pro Plus: 90%
- Instant Pro Plus Max: 70%
Beginner Max requires clearing a buffer before the first payout. The standard Beginner account has no buffer requirement.
No 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
Only self-developed or transparent systems with full source access and control over their logic. No commercial black-box bots, HFT or arbitrage.
The trader must remain actively involved. The following are prohibited:
- Fully automated bots
- External execution APIs
- External signal mirroring
Allowed for security or connectivity, never to conceal identity or bypass restrictions.
No HFT or tick scalping. Payouts require the 15-second rule: at least half of trades and profits must come from trades exceeding that threshold, as described in payout help.
Hyperticks considers repeated trades that are normally held for under 15 seconds and target fewer than 5 ticks to be prohibited microscalping.
Position Loss plans aggregate all trades in the same market, including fees, spread and slippage. Limit: 1% in evaluation and 0.5% funded/Instant. Two soft closures; the third breach ends the account. Rapid Futures does not use this limit.
- Risk above 2% on a single trade idea is prohibited.
- The contract limits of each account and program also apply.
- 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.
Closure after 8 calendar days without trading. Opening or closing a trade resets the timer; an open position pauses it.
Core: 30% funded and Instant, none during evaluation. Rapid: 40% during evaluation; none for funded Rapid Daily. Rapid Futures 3D: 40% per funded cycle. Resets after each payout.
- 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
Latency arbitrage, price or platform manipulation, spoofing/layering, bug exploitation, copying/external signals, third-party management, account sharing, multiple identities and excessive exposure.
- 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
Scaling into positions is allowed within the program's contract limit. Splitting exposure across multiple instruments to bypass the applicable contract limit is prohibited.






















