Which is better for your first challenge: FundedNext or Hola Prime?

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Abdullah Jayed

Somesh Kapuria

United Arab Emirates

Hong Kong

2022

2024

Liquidity Providers

Registration (or reset) fee is refunded after the first payout. Applies to all accounts except Stellar Lite, where the fee is refunded after the third payout.

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.

3.5%

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

• Stellar 1-Step: Every 5 business days
• Stellar 2-Step and Stellar Lite: reward structure chosen at checkout:
  • Standard, Stellar 2-Step: First payout after 21 days, then every 14 days. No additional conditions.
  • Standard, Stellar Lite purchased or reset on or after October 12, 2026: First payout after 10 business days, then every 10 business days. Earlier accounts: first payout after 21 days, then every 14 days. No additional conditions.
  • 3-Day Performance Reward: Payout every 3 days after completing 3 profitable days in the cycle, each with at least 1% profit.
  • On-Demand Performance Reward: Payout on demand after reaching 2% account growth and maintaining 40% consistency.
• Stellar Instant: On-demand from day 1 (minimum 5% profit)

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.

Brand Promise: Guaranteed Performance Reward within 24 hours, or get $1,000 extra.

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.

• USDT, USDC: $1,000

• USDT: $20
• USDC, Rise: $50

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

• 2-Step, Lite: 25:1 (Challenge) / 15:1 (Funded)
• 1-Step: 15:1 (Challenge) / 10:1 (Funded)
• Instant: 7.5:1

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

• 2-Step, Lite: 25:1 (Challenge) / 15:1 (Funded)
• 1-Step: 15:1 (Challenge) / 10:1 (Funded)
• Instant: 7.5:1

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

• 2-Step, Lite: 25:1 (Challenge) / 15:1 (Funded)
• 1-Step: 10:1 (Challenge / Funded)
• Instant: 5:1

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

2:1

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

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

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

All evaluation accounts can be reset for a fee. Reset discount: 10% off challenge price on Stellar 1-Step / 2-Step / Instant, 5% off on Stellar Lite.

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

• Swap-Free (+10%)
• 95% Profit Split (+30%)
• No minium trading days (+20)
• 150% Refund (+10%)
• Biweekly payout (+25%)
• 10% Max Drawdown (+25%)
• Double up: Purchase two identical accounts and receive a 60% discount on the second account
• EA (+5%)
• VPS (+5%)

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.

Direct Account provides funded access without an evaluation phase.

1-Step Prime Challenge.

Success Benchmarks

To trigger your first scaling event, you must meet the following Success Benchmarks:

• Proven Track Record: Successfully received a minimum of 4 Performance Rewards.
• Growth Benchmark: Demonstrate a minimum of 4% growth within each of those 4 payout cycles.
• Maturity Milestone: Maintain an active and disciplined presence for at least 2 months.
• Account Status: Finish the most recent cycle with a positive result and all positions closed before requesting the scale-up.

Pro Trader Privileges

Once you become a Pro Trader, you unlock the following privileges:

• Exponential Growth: A 25% increase in your simulated capital for every qualifying cycle, up to a maximum of $4 Million.
• Extra Performance Reward: A 15% retroactive reward from the profits earned during your Challenge phase (exclusive to Stellar 1-Step and 2-Step accounts).
• Bonus Account: Receive a $100K Stellar Lite Challenge Account completely free to diversify your portfolio.
• Loyalty Discount: Exclusive 12% discount on all your new account purchases.
• Pro Distinction: Official designation as a "FundedNext Pro Trader".

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.

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

• Stellar 2-Step, Stellar 1-Step, Stellar Lite: Static
• Stellar Instant: 6% trailing. It rises with profits, never falls, is capped at the initial account balance and does not reset after a payout.

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.

• Stellar 1-Step: 80%

• Stellar 2-Step and Stellar Lite: 80% with Standard, 60% with 3-Day Performance Reward, or 90% with On-Demand Performance Reward. The reward structure is chosen at checkout.

• Eligible Stellar accounts can reach up to 95% under the scaling plan.

• Instant: 70% on tier 1 and 2, 80% on tier 3 and above

• Stellar 2-Step and Stellar 1-Step: 15% of the profits from the evaluation phases after achieving 10% profit in the funded account

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.

Balance-based

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.

300,000

For traders in Cambodia, Mongolia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Pakistan, FundedNext allows a Maximum Allocation of $50,000 across their accounts.

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.

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.

• Stellar Lite evaluation: 2 days per phase for purchases or resets on or after October 12, 2026; earlier accounts: 5 days per phase
• Stellar 2-Step evaluation: 5 days per phase
• Stellar 1-Step evaluation phase: 2 days
• Funded phase in all accounts: 0 days

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.

FundedNext’s Infinity Points Program rewards traders for their activity on the platform. By completing various actions, users collect Infinity Points that can be exchanged for discount coupons on FundedNext Challenges. The program recognizes trader participation while offering savings and added value to their trading journey.

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.

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.

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.

No evaluation deadline, subject to the inactivity rule.

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.

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.

EA Add-on required

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.

EA Add-on required

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

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.

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

3%

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.

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.

Only 40% of the profit from trades during this window will be counted toward your account balance. This applies to trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before and after a listed high-impact news event.

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.

Accounts (both Challenge and FundedNext) inactive for 60 consecutive calendar days are marked inactive. A warning email is sent first; if no trade is placed within 24 hours of the warning, the account is deactivated. Stellar Challenge Accounts can be reset to continue; FundedNext Accounts cannot. KYC verification must be completed within 30 days post-challenge.

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.

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.

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.

• Hyperactivity
• Latency Trading
• Copy Trading from Others
• Any form of Arbitrage Trading
• Tick Scalping
• Grid Trading
• One-sided Betting
• Account Sharing
• Hedging or Group Hedging
• Use of Guaranteed Profit with Limit Orders
• Use of Platform or Data Freezing Due to Demo Server Errors

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.