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7901 4th St N Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, United States
Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
United States
United Arab Emirates
2025
Rise: $35
After the three Ascension cycles you move to a Live account with Midgard's real capital, starting at $1,000 to $4,000 by size. Minimum balance: 30% of the highest end-of-day balance, which only rises; if equity touches it, the account is liquidated. No targets or payout caps. It requires extra verification (proof of address, phone and tax ID) and the trader pays their own market data.
Standard programs use simulated accounts.
Top performers may be selected for a tailored Live Analyst plan.
- Raid: once per CME session; after a payout, wait for the next session (6 PM ET).
- Conquest: after 5 days at the minimum daily profit ($200, $250, $300 and $350 by size) and total profit of at least 5 times that minimum.
- Ascension: one bounty each completed cycle.
Paid as soon as you confirm an eligible request. It can be held while your latest fills are checked (about 15 minutes) or while the account is under review.
- Raid Light Armor: $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 per request (25K to 150K).
- Raid Plated: $10,000 per request on every size.
- Conquest: up to 50% of profit, capped at $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 on Light Armor and $2,500, $5,000, $7,500 and $10,000 on Plated.
- Live: no cap.
- 25k account: $1,100
- 50k account: $2,000
- 100k account: $3,000
$250 per request on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed bounties.
- 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
- KYC with Sumsub (ID and facial check) before the first payout.
- Payouts go through Rise or Dots, which ask for their own onboarding and tax forms.
- Microscalping: at most 50% of trades or profit since the last payout can come from trades under 12 seconds.
- Raid: the buffer must stay intact after each payout.
- Light Armor: you can only withdraw profit made since the last payout. Plated: the same, but only after a payout taken while profit was above the cap.
Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.
The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.
Up to 3 resets per Trial account, bought manually. They restore the starting balance and erase the account history. Non-refundable.
PLAT End-of-Day Drawdown boost: a Trial bought with it trails the highest end-of-day balance instead of intraday equity. Its price is not public.
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.
Intraday trailing: it follows the highest equity, unrealized profit included. On the Trial it locks at the profit target. Once funded it locks at the starting balance when profit reaches the buffer, which equals the drawdown. Losses and payouts reduce it dollar for dollar; at zero the account fails.
- 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
80% on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed 100% bounties.
- Beginner, HYPER and Instant Pro Plus: 90%
- Instant Pro Plus Max: 70%
No daily loss limit.
- 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
Up to 5 active accounts at once, Trial or funded: $750,000 with five 150K accounts.
Raid only: the buffer equals the account drawdown and only profit above it can be withdrawn. Conquest has no buffer.
Beginner Max requires clearing a buffer before the first payout. The standard Beginner account has no buffer requirement.
5 active accounts at once and no more than 20 new funded accounts in any 30 days.
- Beginner Max: up to 10 accounts
- Instant Pro Plus Max: up to 10 accounts
- Standard programs, HYPER and Instant Flex: up to 3 accounts
No deadline, but you must trade at least once every 28 days.
- Beginner Max: 30 days to pass the evaluation
- Beginner and HYPER: no evaluation time limit
- Trial: 3 days on Light Armor and 5 on Plated.
- Ascension: 5 days per cycle, not necessarily in a row.
Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.
The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.
No activation fee on purchased accounts. Free accounts (100% code, gift or giveaway) may pay a one-time activation when moving to funded: $49 on Light Armor and $99 on Plated.
No activation fee.
PLAT: points for purchases, milestones and promotions, which can also be bought. They cannot be withdrawn, have no cash value and are reversed if the purchase is refunded.
HTP is Hyperticks' internal loyalty coin for community rewards, services and discounts.
- Conquest: 5 days at the minimum daily profit for its size.
- Raid and Ascension: none.
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 fee per account, no subscription or rebills. You pick the platform at checkout.
One-time purchase.
- No monthly subscription
- No activation fee on the current catalog
Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.
The trader must remain actively involved. The following are prohibited:
- Fully automated bots
- External execution APIs
- External signal mirroring
Trades under 12 seconds count as microscalping and cannot exceed 50% of trades or profit. Tick scalping is forbidden.
Hyperticks considers repeated trades that are normally held for under 15 seconds and target fewer than 5 ticks to be prohibited microscalping.
Scaling into positions is allowed within the program's contract limit. Splitting exposure across multiple instruments to bypass the applicable contract limit is prohibited.
Contract limit by account size, in minis or micros.
- Risk above 2% on a single trade idea is prohibited.
- The contract limits of each account and program also apply.
Only between your own Midgard accounts. Copying other traders or signal services is forbidden.
Free on the Trial. Once funded, stay flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after NFP, CPI and FOMC; other news is free.
- 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.
At least one trade every 28 days, counted from purchase or the last reset. Otherwise the account is closed with no refund; they email about 5 days before.
40% on the Trial only: the best day cannot exceed 40% of profit. You need the target or the best day divided by 0.4, whichever is higher. None once funded.
- 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
- Bots, AI or mass order entry
- One- or two-tick tick scalping
- Exploiting simulated fills: rapid-fire orders, gaps, slippage-free stops, tight brackets and auto-breakeven
- Latency arbitrage or price errors
- Hedging across accounts and opposite positions in correlated products (NQ and MNQ)
- Martingale or averaging down
- Copying other traders or trading for others
- VPN, proxy or an external or slow data feed
- 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
Everything is flattened automatically at 4:45 PM ET and you stay flat until the 6:00 PM ET reopen.



















