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Headquarters

Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2nd Floor, 412 S. Wells, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States

Country

United Arab Emirates

United States

Foundation

2025

2020

Banned Countries
Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Bahamas, Barbados, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Region of Crimea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Iraq, Jamaica, Laos, Liberia, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Barbados, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Croatia, Cuba, DR Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guam, Guyana, Haiti, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kosovo, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, US Virgin Islands, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
CEO

James Thorpe

Assets
Equity Index Futures, Currency Futures, Metal Futures, Energy Futures, Agricultural Futures, Crypto Futures, Interest Rate Futures
Futures
Payout Fee

Rise: $35

  • US Wire Transfer: Free
  • International Wire Transfer: $15/withdrawal
  • Crypto L1: $2.5/withdrawal + estimated gas fees
  • Crypto L2: Free
Platforms
TradingView, DeepCharts, DeepDOM, Volumetrica, ATAS
Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Tradingview, Jigsaw, Quantower, Rithmic
Payout Methods
Rise, Crypto
Transfer, Crypto
Live Account
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, PayPal
Card, PayPal
Maximum Withdrawal
  • 25k account: $1,100
  • 50k account: $2,000
  • 100k account: $3,000

Fast Pass Funded Sim maximum per request: $1,500 (50K), $1,875 (100K), $2,250 (150K).

Minimum Withdrawal
  • Beginner and HYPER: $250
  • Instant Pro Plus and Instant Flex: 1% of the starting balance

$250 minimum per payout request.

Brokers
Tradovate, Rithmic
Payout Frequency

Day-one payouts on Quick Pay (no buffer). Requests submitted before 17:30 CT processed within 24 hours on business days. No frequency limit.

Commission

Round-trip commissions vary by instrument.

The official instrument table publishes the exact round-trip cost for each contract.

Add-ons
Instant
One Step
Account scaling
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Max Drawdown
  • Beginner: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
  • HYPER: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
  • Instant Pro Plus: trailing End-of-Day drawdown
  • Instant Flex: 4% intraday trailing drawdown; it moves to break-even after the first payout

Two drawdown types available, both Trailing Maximum Drawdown:

Intraday TMD
Calculated in real time from unrealized profits during the session.

End of Day TMD
Calculated from realized profits at end of day (16:00 CT close). Follows account growth until frozen at the initial balance.

Funded Sim drawdown type matches the evaluation type purchased.

Profit Split

Current profit split: 90%.

Applies to:

  • Beginner
  • HYPER
  • Instant Pro Plus

Quick Pay Funded Sim

  • 80% trader / 20% TradeDay above $4,000 gross profit
  • 50% trader / 50% TradeDay below $4,000 gross profit
  • Split evaluated per account

Fast Pass Funded Sim

  • 80% trader / 20% TradeDay

Funded Live

  • 90% trader / 10% TradeDay
Free Trial
dailyDrawdown
  • Beginner: soft daily loss pause
  • HYPER: no daily loss limit during evaluation; a limit applies when simulated funded
  • Instant Pro Plus: soft daily loss pause
  • Instant Flex: no daily loss limit
Max Allocation
500,000

Up to 10 Evaluation accounts and 5 Funded Sim accounts simultaneously per trader. Up to 5 active Funded Live accounts per trader. Multiple Funded Sim accounts allowed. Single-member US LLC allowed. Multi-member LLC, S-corps and C-corps not allowed.

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Maximum Trading Days

No time limit on evaluations.

Unlimited

Minimum Trading Days

Beginner and HYPER have no additional minimum trading days.

The profit targets and applicable consistency requirements must still be met.

  • Quick Pay: 5 trading days minimum (non-consecutive).
  • Fast Pass: no minimum trading days.
Funded Phase Pricing Model

No activation fee.

No activation fee on TradeDay 2.0.

Points Reward Program

HTP is Hyperticks' internal loyalty coin for community rewards, services and discounts.

Minimum Profitable Days

The number of qualifying days depends on the program and payout.

  • Beginner: 5 winning days
  • HYPER: 5 winning days
  • Instant Pro Plus: 10 / 8 / 6 / 5 qualifying days from the first through fourth payout
  • Instant Flex: 6 qualifying days

The required daily profit varies by program and account size.

Fast Pass Funded Sim: 5 profitable days per payout; $150/$200/$250 minimum daily profit on 50K/100K/150K.

Position size scaling
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

One-time purchase.

  • No monthly subscription
  • No activation fee on the current catalog

Monthly subscription. See challenges for current list prices and promotions for active discounts.

Account Reset

Available on current plans. See challenges for reset price.

Merge Accounts
Expert Advisor (EA)
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Hedging
Requires Stop Loss
Scalping
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Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Maximum Risk Limit
Copy Trading
News Trading
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Consistency Rule
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Hold Weekend
Prohibited Strategies
  • Repeated microscalping
  • Fully automated trading
  • External signal mirroring
  • Price-feed, latency or fill exploitation
  • Simultaneous orders intended to manipulate queue priority
  • Hedging correlated instruments
  • Gambling or random trading
  • Risking more than 2% on one trade idea
  • Bypassing contract limits across instruments
  • Using bots/ATS purchased from third parties
  • Systems generating >200 trades in a day
  • Strategies trading in few seconds to capture only a few ticks
  • Attempting to capture queue position advantage by playing with sim engine
  • Spoofing and layering (per CME Group rules)
  • Order splitting (multiple limit orders at same price simultaneously)
  • Trading in illiquid markets to benefit from missed fills
  • Exploiting lack of slippage in simulation (e.g., bracket orders in data releases)
  • Trading outside best bid/offer
  • Using external or slow data feed
  • High-frequency trading or short-term trading
  • Simultaneous opposite positions between accounts
  • Multiple registrations with different names/emails
  • Using VPN or VPS to mask location
  • Hedging: Prohibited (trading long in one account and short in another for same product)
  • Trading within 2% of price limit (Funded Live only, loss of account)
  • Microscalping (positions held <5-10 seconds dominating profit)
  • Trading Tier 1 news/data releases (2 min before/after, auto-liquidation)
Overnight positions
VPN
allowsMartingale
hasInactivityRule

TradeDay does not charge inactivity fees. However, Tradovate archives the account after 1 month without login.

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