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Platforms and execution: Crypto Fund Trader and Hola Prime

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Where you trade

The choice of terminal defines the trader's daily workflow. Crypto Fund Trader provides a specialized environment with MetaTrader 5, MatchTrader, and a native integration with ByBit. This last option is a standout feature for those who prefer trading on a Tier-1 crypto exchange interface rather than a traditional forex terminal.

Hola Prime offers a broader technical catalog, including MetaTrader 5, cTrader, MatchTrader, and TradeLocker. The inclusion of cTrader is particularly relevant for professional traders seeking advanced order execution and depth of market features that are often superior to the MetaTrader standard.

Who executes your orders

Execution quality directly impacts slippage and fills. Crypto Fund Trader routes orders through its liquidity provider and, uniquely, allows traders to connect their own ByBit accounts via API for specific evaluations. This ensures that crypto execution happens within a genuine exchange ecosystem.

Hola Prime utilizes its own dedicated broker, Hola Prime Markets. This centralized execution model is designed to provide consistency across their various account types, ranging from evaluation phases to direct funded accounts.

Leverage and margin

Risk management is governed by the distance to the liquidation point (drawdown) and the buying power (leverage).

  • Crypto Fund Trader: Offers 100:1 leverage on Forex and Metals for Advance accounts (30:1 for Student). Crypto leverage is exceptionally high at up to 100:1. The risk limits are strict: a 4% daily drawdown and a maximum drawdown of 6% (1-Phase) or 10% (2-Phase). The 1-Phase model uses a trailing drawdown, which moves up with the balance.
  • Hola Prime: Provides 100:1 leverage on Pro accounts and 50:1 on Prime/Direct. Crypto leverage is much lower at 2:1 or 1:1. The daily drawdown varies between 3% and 5%, with a maximum drawdown of 6% to 10%. On Direct accounts, the drawdown trails the highest end-of-day balance until it locks at the initial balance.

Markets available

The universe of tradable assets determines the strategy's reach:

  • Crypto Fund Trader: Forex, Indices, Commodities, Stocks, and a deep focus on Crypto (USDT futures).
  • Hola Prime: Forex, Indices, Commodities, and Crypto. Unlike its competitor, it does not offer individual stock trading.

What the setup lets you do

Platform and firm rules define the allowed trading styles:

  • Crypto Fund Trader: Permits Scalping and Expert Advisors (EAs) for normal trading. It is very flexible regarding timing, allowing News Trading (except for specific restrictions on Ascend accounts) and Weekend Holding, which is vital for the 24/7 crypto market.
  • Hola Prime: Allows Scalping but imposes a 10% surcharge to use EAs (available only on MT5). News Trading is permitted on Prime/Evaluations but restricted on Pro and Direct accounts. Weekend Holding is allowed on Prime but prohibited on Pro and Direct accounts (requiring closure by Friday 15:45 EST).

What the setup costs

The total cost of trading includes the entry fee and the drag of commissions:

  • Execution Costs: Hola Prime is more competitive in Forex with a $3 commission per lot, compared to $5 at Crypto Fund Trader. However, Crypto Fund Trader offers a specific rate of 0.065% for crypto, whereas Hola Prime lists crypto commissions at $0 but with potentially wider spreads or different structures.
  • Account Price: A $100,000 one-step challenge costs $619 at Crypto Fund Trader and $579 at Hola Prime.
  • Payout Conditions: Crypto Fund Trader charges a 5% fee on crypto payouts and requires 15 traded days (reducible to 7 with an add-on). Hola Prime charges a 2.5% fee and offers on-demand, biweekly, or monthly cycles depending on the initial choice.

Better setup for

  • Crypto Fund Trader is the better setup for crypto-centric traders and swing traders who need to hold positions over the weekend and want to operate on ByBit.
  • Hola Prime is the better setup for Forex day traders who prioritize lower commissions, the cTrader platform, and the option to skip evaluations via Direct accounts.

Frequently asked questions

Which firm is cheaper for a $100,000 one-step evaluation, Crypto Fund Trader or Hola Prime?

Hola Prime is the more affordable option, with its $100K 1-Step Prime Challenge priced at $579. In comparison, Crypto Fund Trader charges $619 for its $100,000 1-Phase evaluation. This represents a price difference of $40 for the same starting capital.

Which firm offers lower trading commissions for Forex, Crypto Fund Trader or Hola Prime?

Hola Prime offers lower execution costs for Forex traders with a commission of $3 per lot. Crypto Fund Trader is more expensive in this regard, charging $5 per lot. For a high-volume trader, this $2 difference per lot can significantly impact the long-term net profit.

Between Crypto Fund Trader and Hola Prime, which one provides more trading platforms?

Hola Prime provides a more diverse technical setup with four platforms: MetaTrader 5, cTrader, MatchTrader, and TradeLocker. Crypto Fund Trader offers three choices: MetaTrader 5, MatchTrader, and the native ByBit connection. While Hola Prime wins on variety for Forex, Crypto Fund Trader offers a unique ecosystem for crypto specialists.

Which firm has better payout conditions regarding fees and frequency, Crypto Fund Trader or Hola Prime?

Hola Prime has a lower payout fee of 2.5% and offers flexible cycles including on-demand or biweekly options. Crypto Fund Trader charges a higher 5% fee on crypto payouts and generally requires a minimum of 15 traded days or 30 calendar days for standard accounts, although this can be reduced to 7 days with a paid add-on.

Field by field

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Headquarters

Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland

L1, Shaw House, 201 Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O

CEO

Alan Sanchez

Somesh Kapuria

Country

Switzerland

Hong Kong

Foundation

2022

2024

Banned Countries
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Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Cuba, North Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Mali, Moldova, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto, Stocks
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Brokers
Proveedor de liquidez, Bybit
Hola Prime Markets
Refund
No
Yes

Pro and Prime: 100% of the fee paid is refunded with the fourth successful payout from the same account, not available on Direct. Cancellation refunds must be requested within 14 days without any trading activity.

Payout Fee

5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.

2.5% per payout. Minimum fee: USD 25 for bank wire or Rise; USD 5 for crypto.

Platforms
Metatrader 5, MatchTrader, ByBit
Metatrader 5, cTrader, MatchTrader, TradeLocker
Demo Account
Metatrader 5
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Match Trader
ID-PasswordDemoCFT1
Metatrader 5
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MatchTrader
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Payout Methods
Crypto, Transfer
Crypto, Transfer, Rise
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, PayPal, ApplePay, GooglePay
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency

1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.

Pro and Prime: on-demand, biweekly or monthly cycle selected at purchase; it cannot be changed later. Direct: every 14 days from the first trade in the cycle. After a payout, a new trade starts the next cycle.

Crypto Weekend Trading
Yes
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Maximum Withdrawal

$5,000 per transaction (crypto)

No data
Payout Guarantee
No data

Processing within one hour of an eligible request, following a prior review of up to 24 business hours. Business days only; additional verification or incomplete details may cause delays.

Minimum Withdrawal
No data

Bank wire or crypto: USD 50. Rise: USD 500. Thresholds apply to the trader share, excluding the firm share.

Forex
  • Advance accounts: 100:1
  • Student accounts: 30:1

Pro: 100:1. Prime and Direct: 50:1. Exotic pairs: Pro 10:1; Prime and Direct 5:1.

Metals
  • Advance accounts: 100:1
  • Student accounts: 30:1

Pro: 20:1. Prime and Direct: 10:1.

Energies
  • Advance accounts: 100:1
  • Student accounts: 30:1

Commodities: Pro 5:1; Prime and Direct 2:1.

Indices
  • Advance accounts: 100:1
  • Student accounts: 20:1

Pro: 20:1. Prime: 10:1. Direct: 5:1.

Stocks
  • Advance accounts: 100:1
  • Student accounts: 5:1
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Crypto
  • CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
  • Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.

Pro: 2:1. Prime and Direct: 1:1.

Forex
5 / lot
3 / lot
Metals
0.001%
1.5 / lot - 3 / lot
Energies
0.001%
1.5 / lot
Indices
0.01%
0 / lot
Stocks
0.004%
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Crypto
0.065%
0 / lot
Commission-Free Option
No
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Swap Free
No
Yes

Optional at purchase for all Forex accounts; pricing is listed under Add-ons.

Account Reset

If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:

  • Every trade had a stop-loss.
  • No trade lost more than 2%.

2-Phase (size -> reset)

  • $5,000 -> $180
  • $10,000 -> $345
  • $25,000 -> $760
  • $50,000 -> $1,140
  • $100,000 -> $1,880
  • $200,000 -> $3,620

1-Phase (size -> reset)

  • $5,000 -> $198
  • $10,000 -> $380
  • $25,000 -> $840
  • $50,000 -> $1,255
  • $100,000 -> $2,079
  • $200,000 -> $3,980

After a hard breach a new evaluation or account can be purchased.

Add-ons
Yes

1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).

Yes

Swap-free: +10% of the base fee before discounts. EA Trading: +10%, MT5 only and unavailable on Direct. cTrader: USD 20 fixed surcharge where available. Alternative payout cycles have different configurator prices; the table shows the base option.

Instant
Yes
Yes

Direct Account provides funded access without an evaluation phase.

One Step
Yes
Yes

1-Step Prime Challenge.

Account scaling
Yes

Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.

Yes

Four-month cycles from the first trade: at least 10% net profit, two profitable months, two payouts and a positive balance. Manual request required. Increases based on the original balance: 25% first, 40% second and 50% from the third, up to USD 4 million per user. Loss limits are recalculated on the scaled balance. Unavailable during PCP.

Two Steps
Yes
Yes

Available as 2-Step Pro Challenge and 2-Step Prime Challenge.

Max Drawdown
  • CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
  • Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Pro and Prime: static floor based on the initial balance, also monitored against floating equity. Direct: trails the highest end-of-day balance, only moves upward and locks at the starting balance after the full drawdown distance is earned. A payout does not lower that floor.

Profit Split
  • Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
  • 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
  • Break: 80% in the Final Stage.

The table shows the base biweekly 80% option. Pro and Prime also offer on-demand 80% and monthly 95% with an advertised 20% surcharge; Direct offers a separately priced biweekly 90% variant. The cycle is selected at purchase and cannot be changed later.

Free Trial
No
No
Profit After Breach

If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:

  • Every trade had a stop-loss.
  • No single trade lost more than 2%.
  • You traded for at least 15 days.

A hard breach forfeits profits and pending payouts. Forex daily-loss-only exception: profits may still be paid if every trade had a stop loss and no trade exceeded 1% of the initial balance in profit or loss.

Daily Drawdown
  • CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
  • Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Calculated from the previous day closing balance and includes realized and floating results. Resets at 17:00 EST as stated by Hola Prime. Breaching it is a hard breach.

Three Steps
No
No
Max Allocation

Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.

Standard combined allocation across sim funded and Direct accounts: USD 400,000 per trader or strategy. USD 90,000 cap for Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Israel, Thailand, Botswana, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Jamaica and Mozambique. Combined Forex and Futures: USD 800,000. Prime Circle and scaling have separate conditions.

Merge Accounts
No
Limited

Only same-model Pro or Prime sim funded accounts, with no open trades or active cycle and a combined balance matching an available size. Unavailable for evaluations, Direct or PCP. Allocation limits and promotional-account exclusions apply.

Maximum Trading Days

Unlimited

No evaluation deadline, subject to the inactivity rule.

Minimum Trading Days
  • 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
  • Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
  • Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.

Pro: two days per phase. Prime 1-Step: two days. Prime 2-Step: three days per phase. Direct: no minimum. A day counts when at least one trade is opened.

Monthly Competition
No
No
Maximum Accounts
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Evaluations: unlimited purchases. Sim funded and Direct: up to four 50K accounts, two 100K accounts or one 200K account, within the total allocation limit. 100K and 200K accounts cannot be active together. Direct: at most two active accounts.

Points Reward Program
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Prime Circle: five lifetime Forex payouts, with no consecutive-payout or minimum-amount requirement. Only master payouts count when copying. Automatic eligibility subject to compliance, Platinum support, one pre-trading platform switch and allocation growth: USD 25,000 per three unique payouts of at least 1.5%, up to USD 1 million. The geographic USD 90,000 cap remains.

Minimum Profitable Days
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Pro and Prime: three profitable days per biweekly cycle or seven per monthly cycle. Each day requires at least 0.5% net of the initial balance, measured using the lower of closing balance and equity minus the previous closing balance. On-demand uses consistency and minimum-profit requirements. Direct has no profitable-day minimum.

Position size scaling
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Limited

Pro sim funded: maximum open exposure of 10 lots on 25K, 20 on 50K, 40 on 100K and 80 on 200K; no cap on 5K and 10K. From the second scaling, each step adds 10% of the original cap. Prime and Direct: no explicit lot cap, subject to idea risk. First violation: closure, deduction and requested reactivation; second: 30% split and termination.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.

Limited

MT5 only with the purchased EA Trading add-on; unavailable on Direct, cTrader, MatchTrader and TradeLocker. Strategy declaration and distinct settings required; identical strategies may be grouped for allocation. Analytical tools may not automatically execute or modify orders.

VPN
Yes
Limited

IP must match the registered country, including KYC and payments. No geographic circumvention. VPS permitted only for trade-taking EAs with a dedicated static IP; manual VPS trading is prohibited. No MT5 access from US IP addresses.

Hedging
No
Limited

Hedging within a single account is allowed. Hedging across multiple accounts (offsetting buy/sell positions on the same instrument) is prohibited.

Requires Stop Loss
No
Limited

Required on sim funded and Direct accounts. There is no fixed three-minute deadline; it must be placed before closing. A trade without a stop loss is treated as unlimited risk and can cause account closure.

Scalping
Limited

Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.

Yes
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Yes
Limited

Multiple entries are combined as one idea for risk limits. DCA, averaging down and systematically increasing losing exposure are prohibited.

Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.

Yes

Sim funded and Direct: at most 2% of the initial balance per idea, not per ticket. Risk is combined across overlapping positions and same-asset, same-direction re-entries within ten minutes, including chains. Not applicable during evaluation. PCP: 1% per idea and at most 30% aggregate margin.

Copy Trading
Limited

Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.

Limited

Only own Hola Prime accounts. Challenge to challenge: unlimited. Sim funded: one master and one copier. Challenge to sim funded: only one receiving funded account; sim funded to challenges: unlimited. Copying from other prop firms is prohibited. Applies to accounts purchased on or after 15 September 2026.

News Trading
Yes

Ascend

During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.

Limited

Prime and all evaluations: allowed. Pro sim funded and Direct: no opening or closing affected instruments from five minutes before to five minutes after high-impact news, including SL, TP and pending orders. Previously opened positions may be held. Pro: offending profit removed; Direct: account closure. PCP also restricts Prime news trading.

Consistency Rule
Limited

Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.

Limited

No consistency target to pass Pro or Prime. On-demand sim funded: best day at most 40% of cycle profit and total profit of at least 2% of the initial balance. Direct: best day at most 20%. A partial payout resets the calculation; retained profit does not replace new-cycle profit. PCP may impose additional conditions on high-risk traders.

Hold Weekend
Yes

Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.

Limited

Prime and Pro evaluations: allowed. Pro sim funded: close before 15:45 EST Friday; automatic closure and suspension until Monday. Direct: same deadline, but a hard breach and termination.

Prohibited Strategies

High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.

HFT and tick scalping; arbitrage or exploitation of errors and liquidity; grid, martingale and DCA; unsupported one-sided bets, overexposure and account rolling; third-party accounts, devices, management or signals; cross-account hedging; material changes in strategy, assets or risk after passing; hyperactivity and unauthorized automation. MT5: at most 100 simultaneous orders and 1,000 positions or modifications daily. Sanctions may include profit adjustments, restrictions, PCP or termination.

Martingale
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No
Inactivity Rule
No data
Yes

Hard breach after 30 consecutive calendar days without opening a trade, in evaluation and sim funded. Closing trades, changing SL/TP or placing pending orders does not count as activity.

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