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Trading styles allowed at Hola Prime Futures and WhitePips Futures

Hola Prime Futures offers evaluation accounts starting at $99 and direct funding options, focusing on a weekly payout cycle and end-of-day trailing drawdowns. WhitePips Futures provides one-step evaluations from $129 and instant funding, featuring on-demand payouts and a mix of end-of-day and intraday trailing drawdowns. Both firms enforce strict consistency rules (20% to 40%) and require all positions to be closed before the daily market halt.

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Day Trading (Intraday)

Both firms are strictly designed for day traders, as neither allows holding positions overnight or through the weekend.

  • Risk and Drawdown: Hola Prime uses an end-of-day (EOD) trailing drawdown for evaluation and sim-funded accounts, which is more forgiving than intraday peaks. WhitePips also uses EOD trailing for its "One Step" accounts, but its "Instant" accounts utilize an intraday trailing drawdown on peak equity, increasing the risk of a breach during high volatility.
  • Platforms: Day traders at Hola Prime can choose between NinjaTrader, Tradovate, and WealthCharts. WhitePips is limited to the Volumetrica platform.
  • Costs: In Hola Prime, commissions for ES/NQ are $2.88 per side on Tradovate. WhitePips does not publish a fixed commission table but uses dxFeed for market data.
  • Execution: Both firms require traders to be flat by the market close (around 15:28–15:55 CT). Hola Prime requires a manual exit, whereas WhitePips has an automated system that closes all positions at 15:55 CT.

Scalping

Scalping is permitted by both firms, but they implement different time-based filters to prevent "abusive" strategies.

  • Rules: Hola Prime prohibits systematic patterns of trades lasting less than three minutes if they lack a clear plan or exploit latency. WhitePips is more specific: trades under 30 seconds are allowed, but they cannot represent more than 50% of the total profit; if they do, the payout or pass is delayed until the ratio is corrected.
  • Risk: The 2% risk-per-idea rule at Hola Prime (for funded accounts) might limit aggressive scalpers who scale into positions rapidly. WhitePips uses a contract cap; exceeding it twice leads to an account review.
  • Payout Impact: At WhitePips, scalpers must also respect the 3 to 5 profitable day requirement (minimum +0.25% gain) before requesting a withdrawal.

News Trading

The approach to high-impact economic events differs significantly between the two firms once a trader is funded.

  • Rules: Hola Prime allows news trading across all its programs. WhitePips allows it during the One Step evaluation, but on Funded or Instant accounts, traders cannot open or close positions within 2 minutes of "red" USD news.
  • Penalties: At WhitePips, violating the news rule results in the removal of profits from those trades. After two warnings, the third violation leads to a full account review.
  • Strategy: For those whose strategy relies on volatility spikes, Hola Prime offers a much more flexible environment.

Copy Trading

Both firms allow traders to manage multiple accounts simultaneously using local copy-trading software.

  • Limitations: Both firms only allow copying between accounts owned by the same person. Copying third parties, signals, or external accounts is strictly prohibited.
  • Account Caps: Hola Prime allows up to 5 sim-funded/Direct accounts (up to $500,000 total allocation). WhitePips allows as many accounts as the $1.5M total limit permits, with the ability to purchase bundles of up to 5 accounts with a discount.
  • Technical Setup: At Hola Prime, the lead account in a copier must be the one with the lowest contract limit to ensure compliance across all accounts.

Automated Trading (EAs)

Traders looking for full automation will find both firms highly restrictive.

  • Rules: Both Hola Prime and WhitePips Futures explicitly prohibit the use of Expert Advisors (EAs), bots, or partial/full automation for futures trading.
  • Alternative: Traders at WhitePips may use their own EA on a VPS if it is disclosed, but it is primarily for CFD accounts; the futures rules state "No EAs."
  • Platform constraints: NinjaTrader (available at Hola Prime) and Volumetrica (available at WhitePips) support automated logic, but the firm rules override the platform capabilities.

If you trade like this

  • If you are a News Trader: Hola Prime Futures is the better choice because it has no restrictions on trading during high-impact economic events, whereas WhitePips penalizes news trading in funded stages.
  • If you prefer NinjaTrader or Tradovate: Hola Prime Futures is your only option, as WhitePips is locked to Volumetrica.
  • If you want the highest profit split: WhitePips Futures offers a 90% split across all plans, while Hola Prime's split can vary depending on the specific product or live invitation.
  • If you want to avoid monthly fees: WhitePips Futures uses a one-off fee for evaluations, while Hola Prime’s 1-Step Prime is a monthly subscription until passed.

Frequently asked questions

Which firm is cheaper to start a $50,000 evaluation, Hola Prime Futures or WhitePips Futures?

Hola Prime Futures is cheaper for the first month, charging $159 for its 50K 1-Step Prime Challenge. WhitePips Futures charges a one-off fee of $179 for its 50K One Step account. However, since Hola Prime is a subscription, it becomes more expensive if you take more than 30 days to pass, whereas WhitePips includes the first 30 days of data and only charges $35 every 30 days thereafter for data maintenance.

Does Hola Prime Futures or WhitePips Futures have a faster payout process?

WhitePips Futures is theoretically faster as it offers payouts "on demand" as soon as conditions (like the 3-5 profitable days and consistency rules) are met. Hola Prime Futures follows a weekly cycle for sim-funded accounts (every seven calendar days from the first trade), though it offers daily requests for traders who have been invited to a "Live" account.

Which firm has stricter rules for trading during news, Hola Prime Futures or WhitePips Futures?

WhitePips Futures is significantly stricter. It prohibits opening or closing trades within a 4-minute window (2 minutes before and after) around high-impact USD news on funded and instant accounts, removing any profits made during that time. Hola Prime Futures permits news trading without these specific time restrictions across all its account types.

Can I use NinjaTrader with both Hola Prime Futures and WhitePips Futures?

No, you can only use NinjaTrader with Hola Prime Futures. Hola Prime supports NinjaTrader, Tradovate, and WealthCharts. In contrast, WhitePips Futures only supports the Volumetrica platform for its futures accounts, which limits traders who are already familiar with the NinjaTrader ecosystem.

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Country

Hong Kong

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Foundation

2024

2026

Banned Countries
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
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Assets
Futures
Futures, Indices, Commodities, Forex
Payout Fee

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

No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.

Platforms
NinjaTrader, Tradovate, WealthCharts
Volumetrica
Payout Methods
Crypto, Transfer, Rise
Transfer, Crypto
Live Account
Yes

By risk-team invitation; the transition cannot be requested or declined. Eligibility reference: at least ten payouts totaling USD 50,000, with possible earlier invitations. One live account per trader. At most 15% of the sim funded account size transfers; excess profit does not carry over. Paid professional data required.

No
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, Transfer, UPI
Payout Frequency

Prime and Direct sim funded: every seven calendar days from the first trade of the cycle; after a payout the next trade starts a new cycle. Live: daily requests.

On demand, as soon as the conditions are met.

Payout Guarantee

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

No guaranteed time: the payout policy neither promises nor estimates one. Every request gets an automatic receipt and every payout a verifiable certificate.

Maximum Withdrawal

Prime and Direct sim funded payout caps, ordered first / second / third / fourth and subsequent:

  • 25K: USD 1,000 / 1,250 / 1,500 / 2,000.
  • 50K: USD 1,500 / 2,000 / 2,500 / 3,000.
  • 100K: USD 2,000 / 2,500 / 3,000 / 4,000.
  • 150K: USD 2,500 / 3,000 / 4,000 / 5,000.

Before the split. One Step 25K/50K/100K/150K: $1,000/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 on the first payout and $1,500/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 after. Instant: $1,000/$2,000/$3,000/$4,000 on every payout. The rest rolls into the next one.

Minimum Withdrawal

Prime and Direct sim funded, by size: 25K, USD 250; 50K, USD 500; 100K, USD 1,000; 150K, USD 1,500. Rise requires at least USD 500 of the trader share. Live: USD 500 including the firm share.

$500 before the split. Crypto payouts: at least $100.

Other Payout Requirements

KYC, agreement and interview before the first payout; account review for every request and further checks when required. After a payout the loss floor becomes the starting balance: retain enough profit to avoid touching it. Consistency resets even after a partial payout.

Every position closed. Funded One Step: balance above the buffer plus 1% of the starting balance, 3 profitable days (+0.25%) and the 40% rule. Instant: a profit milestone before each payout ($1,450, $3,000, $5,000 or $8,000 on 25K, 50K, 100K or 150K), 5 profitable days and the 20% rule.

Brokers
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dxFeed
Account Reset

Failed challenges can be repurchased at any time. Funded accounts cannot be reset.

Limited

One Step: after an evaluation breach, a restart within 14 days at the same price. Funded One Step: a reset within 14 days, at most twice and before the first payout. Instant: no reset; a new account at a reduced price is offered for 3 days.

Instant
Yes

Direct Account: funded access without any evaluation phase.

Yes
One Step
Yes

1-Step Prime Challenge: single-phase evaluation with a profit target and consistency requirement.

Yes
Account scaling
Limited

Live program: whenever accumulated profit reaches 100% of the reference balance, the account grows by 10%. Payouts count toward profit and eligibility is reviewed on payout requests. The Forex scaling ladder does not automatically apply to Futures sim funded.

No
Max Drawdown

Evaluation and sim funded: trails the highest end-of-day balance, not intraday unrealized peaks. It only rises and locks at the starting balance after earning the drawdown distance. A payout fixes the floor at the starting balance even if it had not locked yet. Touching it with balance or equity closes the account.

One Step: end-of-day trailing, rising with the closing balance. Instant: intraday trailing on peak equity, open profit included. Both lock once they reach the starting balance. Touching it ends the account.

Profit Split

Each product split is listed in its challenge. The live program has its own split and starting-balance release requirements.

90% on both plans.

Free Trial
No
No
Daily Drawdown

Prime evaluation and sim funded: no daily cap. Direct: based on the previous closing balance; reaching it closes positions and pauses trading until the next day, without terminating the account for that isolated event. Maximum-loss breaches still terminate the account.

Soft limit: reaching it closes positions and stops trading until the next session; the account stays open. One Step 25K has none.

Max Allocation

Combined sim funded and Direct: up to USD 500,000 or five accounts, whichever comes first. Combined Forex and Futures: USD 800,000. One live account may additionally be held.

$1.5M per person across all CFD and futures accounts.

Mandatory buffer
Limited

After a payout the balance must stay above the starting balance, which becomes the loss floor. Withdrawing all profit would leave no room above that limit.

Limited

Funded One Step: a buffer equal to the max loss that stays on the account and is never paid out. Instant has none.

Maximum Accounts

At most five sim funded or Direct accounts, subject to total allocation; one additional live account. Unlimited evaluation purchases.

One user per person, with as many accounts as the $1.5M limit allows. Up to 5 accounts per order, with a 10% to 25% bundle discount.

Merge Accounts
No
No data
Maximum Trading Days

Unlimited on all plans.

No time limit.

Minimum Trading Days

None on any plan.

No minimum in the evaluation: it can be passed in one day.

Funded Phase Pricing Model

Sim funded: no monthly membership fee; Level 1 data included. Live: professional data, USD 130 per exchange per month or USD 520 for all four, without proration.

No activation fee.

Minimum Profitable Days

Prime sim funded: five non-consecutive profitable days in every payout cycle, not only the first. Minimum daily profit: 25K, USD 100; 50K, USD 150; 100K, USD 200; 150K, USD 250. Direct has no profitable-day minimum.

Before each payout: 3 days at +0.25% of the starting balance on funded One Step and 5 on Instant. The evaluation needs none.

Position size scaling
No

Size-based limits are listed on each challenge. Standard mini:micro ratio is 1:10; Micro Silver has double weighting, and MBT/MET count as minis. No progressive sim funded contract-scaling plan is documented. Live has separate limits.

No data
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

1-Step Prime is a subscription that renews automatically every 30 days until passing or cancellation. It cannot be paused. Cancellation loses progress and returning requires a new purchase.

One-off fee. Includes 30 days of market data; then $35 per 30 days ($540 a month for professional subscribers).

Expert Advisor (EA)
No
No

No EAs or automated trading on futures.

VPN
Limited

Legitimate connections and VPNs outside restricted countries are permitted. Own devices only; travel may require verification. Device or identity sharing may close all accounts.

No

Hiding your location with a VPN, proxy or remote desktop is prohibited and triggers a new identity check. Your own EA on a VPS is allowed if disclosed.

Requires Stop Loss
Limited

Stop losses required in sim funded and Direct; without one, a trade is treated as unlimited risk. The per-idea risk rule does not apply during evaluation. No fixed three-minute stop-placement deadline is documented here.

No
Scalping
Limited

There is no universal minimum holding time. A systematic pattern of sub-three-minute trades without a plan, tick scalping, HFT or latency exploitation is prohibited.

Limited

Yes, but trades under 30 seconds may make at most 50% of profit; until it is back under, no pass or payout.

Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Sim funded and Direct: 2% of the initial balance per idea on Tradovate, NinjaTrader and WealthCharts; legacy DX Futures accounts use 1%. Not applicable during evaluation. Overlapping positions and same-asset, same-direction re-entries within ten minutes are combined.

Limited

A cap on contracts open at once; exceeding it once is a warning, the second time goes to review.

Copy Trading
Limited

Only own Hola Prime challenge or sim funded accounts within the same environment. The lead must have the lowest contract limit. Third-party copiers are used at the trader responsibility; external or other-person accounts cannot be copied.

Limited

Only between your own futures accounts or from your own master account. Copying others or signals is prohibited.

News Trading
Yes
Limited

Free during the One Step evaluation. Funded and on Instant, no trade may be opened or closed 2 minutes either side of red USD news: profit from those trades is removed. Two warnings; the third goes to review.

Inactivity Rule
Yes

Evaluation and sim funded: complete at least one round-trip trade within each seven-day period. Live: suspension after 30 calendar days; opening or closing a trade counts as activity.

15 days without trading deactivates the account; an open position does not count.

Consistency Rule
Limited

1-Step Prime Challenge: 40%. Prime funded account: 35%. Direct Account: 20%.

Limited

No day may exceed 40% of the cycle's profit on funded One Step (none in the evaluation) or 20% on Instant. Until met, the payout waits.

Hold Weekend
No
No
Prohibited Strategies

Bots and partial or full automation; tick scalping and HFT; arbitrage, latency, errors and low-liquidity exploitation; grid, overexposure, account rolling and unsupported bets; copying external or other-person accounts; cross-account hedging; shared accounts or devices; unjustified strategy or contract-size changes to manipulate evaluations or payouts. Trading within 2% of a CME price limit is prohibited. Violations may forfeit profits and terminate accounts.

Hedging across accounts, latency or cross-market arbitrage, account or device sharing, coordinated trading, copying others, market or order-queue manipulation, volume inflation, filler trades to count days, HFT, strategies that cannot work in a live market, gambling and account rolling, straddling tier-1 news and gap trading.

Overnight positions
No

Close daily before 15:30 CT; the trader must be flat by 15:28 CT without relying on risk-team flattening. Observe earlier agricultural and holiday closes. Sunday-evening to Monday trading belongs to one session and is permitted.

No

Everything is closed at 3:55 PM Chicago time every session; it is not a breach.

Hedging
No data
Limited

Within one account, yes (mini against micro or different contracts). Prohibited across accounts.

Martingale
No data
Limited

Allowed when used responsibly within the contract and loss limits; aggressive sequences are reviewed.

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