Time limits
You cannot take forever to manage your accounts in either firm, as inactivity rules force you to stay active even when the market offers no setups.
- Hola Prime: You cannot let 30 consecutive calendar days pass without opening a trade. If you only modify a Stop Loss or a pending order, the firm considers you inactive and will terminate your account.
- Leveraged: You are also restricted by a 30-day inactivity window. Failing to open and close a trade within this period results in the immediate closure of your account.
- Evaluation deadline: Neither firm imposes a maximum number of days to pass the evaluation, but you are still bound by the inactivity rules mentioned above.
Weekends and news
Operating during high-impact events or holding positions over the weekend is heavily restricted depending on the account type you choose.
- Hola Prime: You cannot trade news (5 minutes before and after) if you use a Pro Sim Funded or Direct account. Furthermore, you cannot hold positions over the weekend in these models; you must close everything by Friday at 15:45 EST or face automatic closure or account termination.
- Leveraged: You cannot trade high-impact news on any program except Sprint. This restriction includes opening, increasing, or closing positions (including pending orders) within a 10-minute window around the release. While swing trading is allowed, you cannot exploit market gaps or hold hedged positions overnight or over the weekend.
Where you can trade from
Both firms impose geographic boundaries that limit access to certain traders.
- Hola Prime: You cannot access their services if you are from one of the 31 banned countries, including Russia, India, China, or Ukraine. Additionally, specific challenges (like the $2K account) are unavailable in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany, among others.
- Leveraged: You cannot trade from 31 prohibited jurisdictions, which notably includes the United States, Israel, and Russia. You are also forbidden from using a VPN to circumvent these geographic restrictions.
What the platform limits
The technical environment and the trading styles allowed are governed by several prohibitions.
- Hola Prime: You cannot use EAs unless you pay a 10% surcharge and use MetaTrader 5; they are completely banned on Direct accounts and platforms like cTrader or MatchTrader. You are also prohibited from using Martingale or Grid strategies.
- Leveraged: You cannot use any commercial EAs (bought or rented), even if you modify them; only self-developed tools are permitted. You cannot engage in "tick scalping" or HFT; trades are generally expected to last at least two minutes. MetaTrader 4 is not an option here.
What the rules cost you
The financial structure of these firms limits your profit potential and your ability to recover your initial investment.
- Hola Prime: You cannot withdraw your initial fee until your fourth successful payout (on Pro and Prime), and it is never refunded on Direct accounts. Every payout costs you a 2.5% fee, and you cannot request a withdrawal via Rise unless you have at least $500.
- Leveraged: You cannot get your refund until the third payout. On the Turbo program, you are forced to pay an activation fee after passing the evaluation. If you fail to pay this within 30 days, your funded offer expires. Payouts via wire transfer carry a fixed $25 fee.
- Risk limits: At Hola Prime, you cannot exceed 2% risk per "idea" on funded accounts. At Leveraged, the Sprint program is extremely restrictive, with only a 1% total drawdown limit.
Restrictions that add up
At Hola Prime, the combination of a mandatory Stop Loss (which can lead to termination if forgotten), a 2.5% payout fee, and the news/weekend blocks on Pro accounts creates a rigid environment for traders who need flexibility. You are essentially forced into a specific "Pro" or "Prime" mold where any deviation results in profit forfeiture.
At Leveraged, the primary constraint is the 20% consistency rule on funded Turbo and ONE accounts, which prevents you from having one exceptionally good day. When combined with the ban on commercial EAs and the 2-minute minimum trade duration, the firm effectively blocks aggressive or automated scalping strategies, forcing a manual, steady approach that many find difficult to maintain.
Frequently asked questions
Which firm is more expensive to start a 100K evaluation, Hola Prime or Leveraged?
Hola Prime is significantly more expensive for a single-step evaluation. Their 1-Step Prime 100K costs $579, whereas the Leveraged ONE 100K (also a one-step) is priced at only $188. Even for two-step evaluations, Hola Prime's Pro 100K costs $681 compared to Leveraged's Senior Portfolio Manager 100K at $549.
Which firm has stricter news trading rules, Hola Prime or Leveraged?
Leveraged is more restrictive overall because news trading is blocked on all its programs except for "Sprint." Hola Prime, by contrast, only restricts news trading on its Pro and Direct accounts, allowing it on all evaluations and the Prime Sim Funded accounts.
Which one imposes more limits on Expert Advisors (EAs), Hola Prime or Leveraged?
Leveraged is more restrictive regarding the origin of the software, as it completely bans all commercial, rented, or publicly distributed EAs, only allowing those you built yourself. Hola Prime allows more variety but limits the platform (MT5 only) and imposes a financial penalty, requiring a 10% surcharge on the base fee to enable EA trading.
Which firm makes it harder to withdraw small amounts of profit, Hola Prime or Leveraged?
Hola Prime is more restrictive if you use the Rise platform, as it requires a minimum of $500 for the trader's share. For bank wires or crypto, both firms have a similar floor ($50 at Hola Prime and variable amounts at Leveraged), but Hola Prime always takes a 2.5% cut per payout, whereas Leveraged charges a flat $25 for wire transfers.
