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Goat Funded Trader and Hola Prime at a glance

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The short answer

Goat Funded Trader is the budget-friendly choice with a unique $500 payout delay guarantee, though its Trustpilot status is a red flag. Hola Prime is a more structured, premium-priced option that mandates Stop Losses and charges payout fees but offers hedging and unblocked reviews.

Where they actually differ

  • Price (Determinant): Goat is significantly cheaper. A 100K 2-step evaluation costs $478 at Goat versus $569 at Hola Prime.
  • Risk (Rules): Hola Prime mandates a Stop Loss on all funded and Direct accounts; failing to use one can lead to account closure. Goat does not require a Stop Loss but features "Goat Guard," which auto-closes positions if they reach a 2% account loss.
  • Payout (Conditions): Hola Prime charges a 2.5% fee on every withdrawal (min. $25 for wire). Goat charges no payout fees and pays the trader an extra $500 if the payout takes longer than 2 business days.
  • Styles (Trading): Hola Prime allows hedging within the same account. Goat prohibits all forms of hedging. Additionally, Goat enforces a 1-minute minimum holding time on funded accounts, whereas Hola Prime has no such restriction.
  • Platforms (Tech): Goat offers Volumetrica in addition to MT5, cTrader, MatchTrader, and TradeLocker. Hola Prime sticks to the latter four.

Where they are basically the same

  • Risk: Both firms apply a 30-day inactivity rule that results in a hard breach.
  • Payout: Both offer biweekly payout cycles as their standard baseline.
  • Platforms: Both provide access to cTrader and MatchTrader for those avoiding MetaTrader.
  • Styles: Both allow EAs, though Hola Prime requires a paid 10% add-on to enable them.
  • Price: Both offer scaling plans that can eventually reach $4,000,000 in allocation.

Pick this one if

  • Goat Funded Trader: You want the lowest entry cost, no withdrawal fees, and a financial guarantee on payout speed.
  • Hola Prime: You trade with hedging strategies, always use Stop Losses, and prefer a firm with a transparent Trustpilot profile.

Frequently asked questions

Which firm is cheaper for a 100K 2-step evaluation, Goat Funded Trader or Hola Prime?

Goat Funded Trader is the more affordable option, with its 100K "2 Step Goat" challenge priced at $478. Hola Prime charges $569 for its equivalent "2-Step Prime" challenge, making Goat roughly 16% cheaper for this account size.

Who offers better payout terms and guarantees, Goat Funded Trader or Hola Prime?

Goat Funded Trader offers superior terms by charging $0 in withdrawal fees and providing a $500 reward if your payout takes more than 2 business days. Hola Prime, conversely, charges a 2.5% fee per payout and has a minimum fee of $25 for bank wires or Rise transfers.

Which firm allows more trading platforms, Goat Funded Trader or Hola Prime?

Goat Funded Trader provides a wider selection with five platforms: MetaTrader 5, cTrader, MatchTrader, TradeLocker, and Volumetrica. Hola Prime offers four platforms: MetaTrader 5, cTrader, MatchTrader, and TradeLocker, lacking support for Volumetrica.

Who has stricter risk rules on funded accounts, Goat Funded Trader or Hola Prime?

Hola Prime is stricter because it mandates a Stop Loss on every trade and forbids news trading on its Pro and Direct accounts. Goat Funded Trader does not require a Stop Loss and allows news trading, though it limits the maximum profit from news events to 1% of the account balance.

Field by field

Goat Funded Trader and Hola Prime, side by side

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Headquarters

The Sotheby Building, Ground Floor, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, SW18 1TA, St. Lucia

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Country

St. Lucia

Hong Kong

Foundation

2023

2024

Banned Countries
Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, North Korea, Libya, Vietnam
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
CEO
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Somesh Kapuria

Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Brokers

Liquidity Providers

Hola Prime Markets
Refund
Yes

Full refund after 4th payout

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.

Platforms
MatchTrader, cTrader, TradeLocker, Volumetrica, MetaTrader5
Metatrader 5, cTrader, MatchTrader, TradeLocker
Payout Methods
Transfer, Rise, Crypto
Crypto, Transfer, Rise
Payment Methods
ApplePay, Korapay, Card, GooglePay, PayPal, Crypto, Skrill, IMPS
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency
  • Biweekly
  • Evaluation accounts can be purchased with an add-on to get the first payout On Demand with 40% profit split
  • Standard Instant Funding have 'Triple payday' rewards, allowing traders to withdraw profits every 10 days.
  • Instant Premium: every 10 days
  • Instant HERO: every 14 days

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.

Payout Guarantee

If the payout takes longer than promised (2 business days), the trader automatically receives an extra $500 reward, guarantee.

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.

Crypto Weekend Trading
Yes
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Maximum Withdrawal

For the first two reward requests, traders can withdraw a maximum of 6% of the initial account balance.

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Minimum Withdrawal

$100

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

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

Demo Account
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Metatrader 5
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MatchTrader
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Forex
  • Evaluation phases: 100:1
  • Funded phase: 50:1

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

Metals
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1

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

Energies
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1

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

Indices
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1

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

Stocks
  • Evaluation phases: 5:1
  • Funded phase: 5:1
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Crypto
  • Evaluation phases: 2:1
  • Funded phase: 2:1

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

Forex
5 / lot
3 / lot
Metals
5 / lot
1.5 / lot - 3 / lot
Energies
0
1.5 / lot
Indices
0
0 / lot
Stocks
0
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Crypto
0
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 you don’t complete a challenge, you can restart it at any time with a 12% discount. You’ll also get a single-use coupon that gives you 10% off any program.

Reset: buy a Reset to continue from the phase where you breached instead of starting over — it issues a new account at that phase (Funded reset gives a new Funded account, no re-evaluation). Available any time, or within 14 days of a breach. Each phase can be reset once. Price is a % of the original Challenge: Phase 1 −7%; Phase 2 +45–50%; Phase 3 +80%; Funded +50–175% (Instant: −7%).

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

Add-ons
Yes
  • Payout On Demand (+15%)
  • 100% Profit Split (+20%)
  • Both add-ons (+30%)
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
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
  • 1-Step, 2-Step, 3-Step: Static
  • Instant Funding: Trailing
  • Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward

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

Profit split varies by product; see challenges. Add-ons may offer a higher split.

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
Daily Drawdown

Most models: highest balance or equity recorded at end of day (EOD high-watermark).

  • Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 PM EST.

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
Yes
No
Max Allocation

$400,000 on every country except Pakistan, where the maximum is $50,000

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
Yes
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

Instant HERO: 6 non-consecutive valid trading days before payout, with at least 0.5% profit each.

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.

Points Reward Program

The GOAT Points Program rewards traders for both purchases and trading activities:

  • You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and can gain additional points by completing trading tasks.
  • Points are credited instantly and can be tracked in your Trader Dashboard. You can redeem them for valuable perks such as free accounts, extra leverage, increased drawdown, and account size boosts.
  • There's no limit to how many points you can earn, and all GFT traders are automatically enrolled.

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.

Monthly Competition
No
No
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
  • 5 days with 0.5% profit on all Instant Funding accounts
  • Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)

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.

Profit After Breach
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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.

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.

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)
Yes
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
No
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
Yes

Funded accounts only: minimum holding time of 1 minute for purchases from 6 October 2026 at 00:00 UTC; 2 minutes for earlier purchases, including their resets. Funded accounts follow the original challenge purchase date. Profits from shorter trades are excluded from payouts; losses still count. This is not an account breach. Evaluation accounts are exempt.

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
  • Instant HERO: 1% maximum floating loss; breach closes the account.
  • The firm may impose a 1% risk-per-trade-idea limit after excessive risk-taking.
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

Allowed between your own GFT accounts only through Goat Copier, GFT's own trade copier: funded to funded, challenge to challenge, and challenge to funded in either direction. Applies to existing and new accounts. Any other trade copier or third-party tool is prohibited, as is copying other traders, or copying between GFT and personal broker accounts or accounts at another prop firm.

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
Limited

El beneficio máximo por cualquier operación que se abra o cierre dos minutos antes o después de un evento noticioso de alto impacto (según la designación de ForexFactory.com) está restringido al 1% del saldo de apertura de la cuenta.

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.

Inactivity Rule

30 Days

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.

Consistency Rule
Yes
  • Instant Goat: A single day cannot represent more than 15% of your total earnings when requesting a withdrawal.
  • Instant Pro: A single day cannot represent more than 20% of your total earnings when requesting a withdrawal.
  • Instant Premium: no consistency rule.
  • Instant HERO: no single day can represent 15% or more of total profits during a payout period.
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
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
  • All or nothing
  • Exploit broker/platform errors
  • Use insider/non-public info
  • Front-run other trades
  • Excessively risky strategies
  • Hedging across accounts
  • Third-party EAs/strategies
  • Switch strategies post-assessment
  • Martingale/grid strategies banned

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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