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Hyperticks logoHyperticks
Headquarters

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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

Country

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2023

2025

Banned Countries
Cuba, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Vietnam, Kenya, Albania, Algeria, North Korea, Senegal
Nigeria, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Brokers

Dxfeed

Refund
Payout Fee

$35 flat fee via Rise (for payouts of $1,000 or more). Payouts below $1,000 are paid in crypto and only carry the network fee.

Rise: $35

Platforms
Metatrader 5, MatchTrader, TradeLocker, cTrader
Volumetrica, Tradingview, DeepCharts, DeepDOM, ATAS
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
Rise, Crypto
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, PayPal
Payout Frequency

First payout 14 days after the first trade. Every 14 days after that. First payout after 7 days with add-on (+15%).

  • Instant Pro: First Payout on Demand is available as a checkout add-on.

On demand after meeting the trading-day, profit and risk requirements of the selected program.

Payout Guarantee

Get Paid in 24 Hours or get an extra $1,000. Rewards are only processed on business days, and so the 48 Hour Reward Guarantee timer is paused on weekends.

Maximum Withdrawal

For traders with $200K accounts or larger, the first two reward requests are capped at a maximum withdrawal of $10,000 each. After the first two rewards, this restriction is removed, and there are no further withdrawal limits.

TryAqua: maximum lifetime withdrawal of $100.

Minimum Withdrawal

$100

  • 1-Step and 2-Step Fast: $100
  • Hyper Instant: $100
  • Instant Plus: 6% of the initial account balance
Forex
  • Instant Standard: 30:1
  • Instant Pro, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 50:1
  • 1 Step Flex: 100:1 during evaluation, 50:1 when funded
50:1
Metals
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
  • 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded
50:1
Energies
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
  • 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded
50:1
Indices
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
  • 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded
50:1
Crypto
  • Instant Standard: 1:1
  • Instant Pro, 2 Step, 1 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 2:1
50:1
Forex
5 / lot
Metals
5 / lot
Energies
5 / lot
Indices
0
Swap Free
Add-ons
Instant
One Step
Account scaling
Two Steps
Max Drawdown
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Pro, Aqua Man: Trailing, based on the highest value between equity and balance
  • TryAqua: Daily and maximum drawdowns are trailing
  • 1 Step Flex, 2 Step Elite, 3 Step: Static
  • 1-Step: 6%
  • 2-Step Fast: 8% static
  • Instant Plus: 6% trailing
  • Hyper Instant: 6% smart trailing
Profit Split

90%. 100% with add-on (+15%)

  • 1-Step: 80%
  • Instant Plus: 70%

See each challenge for the applicable split.

Free Trial
dailyDrawdown

Based on highest value between equity and balance

  • 1-Step: 3%
  • 2-Step Fast: 4%
  • Instant Plus: 3%
  • Hyper Instant: 3%
Three Steps
Max Allocation
400,000
500,000
Merge Accounts
Maximum Trading Days

No limit

No published time limit.

Minimum Trading Days
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro: 5 days (non-consecutive), 0.5% profit each
  • TryAqua: 5 days, with at least 0.5% profit each
  • 1 Step Standard: 3 days, 0.5% profit each
  • 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard: 5 days, 0.5% profit each
  • 1 Step Flex: no minimum during evaluation; 3 days before the first funded payout, with at least 0.5% profit each
  • 2 Step Pro: 0 in evaluation, 5 in funded
  • 2 Step Elite: 3 per step
  • 3 Step: not specified
  • 1-Step: 3 profitable days
  • 2-Step Fast: 5 profitable days per phase
  • Instant Plus: 5 valid days before payout
  • Hyper Instant: 10 valid days before payout

A valid day requires at least 0.5% profit.

Monthly Competition
Minimum Profitable Days

A qualifying day must close with at least 0.5% profit.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Hedging
Requires Stop Loss
Scalping
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Stacking / Layering (DCA)
allowsMartingale
Maximum Risk Limit
Copy Trading
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News Trading
~
~
hasInactivityRule

30 days

Instant accounts are breached after 21 consecutive calendar days without a trade.

Consistency Rule
~
Hold Weekend
Prohibited Strategies
  • Use of platform or data freezing due to a Demo Server error.
  • Use of a delayed data feed
  • Trading on delayed charts
  • Tick scalping
  • High frequency trading
  • Arbitrage bots
  • Reverse arbitrage
  • Latency arbitrage
  • Hedge arbitrage or any emulators are prohibited.

Hyperticks prohibits strategies that exploit execution or avoid its risk rules.

  • Hedging
  • Layering
  • Martingale
  • Grid trading
  • High-frequency trading
  • External signals, third-party copy trading services and copying accounts belonging to other traders
  • Arbitrage and latency trading
  • Trades held for less than 2 minutes
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