CFD prop firm with 1-step and 2-step challenges and a no-evaluation Direct account, from $2K to $200K.
Founded
2024 (2 years)
Headquarters
Hong Kong
CEO
Somesh Kapuria
Max funding
$400K
Profit split
Up to 95%
Programs
1-step, 2-step, Instant funding
Trading permissions
NewsAllowed with limits
EAsAllowed with limits
CopyAllowed with limits
OvernightAllowed
WeekendAllowed with limits
Overview
Hola Prime is a prop firm founded in 2024. Its website is owned by Hola Prime Limited of Hong Kong, and trading runs through an in-house broker whose Mauritius entity holds an FSC licence. The forex (CFD) lineup has the 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime and 2-Step Pro challenges from $2,000 to $200,000, plus a Direct account with no evaluation up to $100,000. Platforms are MT5, cTrader, Match-Trader and TradeLocker, with US traders limited to the last two. The payout cycle is chosen at purchase: bi-weekly or on demand at an 80% split, or monthly at 95%. Funded accounts are simulated and can scale toward $4 million. Hola Prime also sells futures accounts, which are not covered here.
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1-Step Prime
1-step
Account sizes
$2K to $200K
Price
$14 to $1,049
Drawdown
Static
Profit split
80%, up to 95%
Payouts
Every 14 or 30 days, or on demand
Minimum trading days
2 days
Time limit
Unlimited
Fee refunded
Yes, with a qualifying payout
Prices are for the default bi-weekly cycle at 80%. The on-demand cycle costs more ($619 for 100K) and the monthly 95% cycle about 20% more ($695 for 100K). The cycle cannot be changed after purchase.
Daily loss is 3% of the previous day's closing balance. Maximum loss is fixed at 6% below the initial balance and does not trail.
News trading and weekend holding are allowed in the challenge and on the funded account.
Funded accounts require a stop-loss on every trade and cap the risk per trade idea at 2% of the initial balance.
Leverage is 1:50 on forex, 1:10 on indices and metals, 1:5 on exotics, 1:2 on commodities and 1:1 on crypto.
The challenge fee is refunded with the fourth payout from the funded account. Add-on fees are not refunded.
The add-ons FAQ uses a $499 price for 1-Step Prime 100K in its example, which does not match the $579 list price in the current pricing table.
2-Step Prime
2-step
Account sizes
$2K to $200K
Price
$9 to $1,079
Drawdown
Static
Profit split
80%, up to 95%
Payouts
Every 14 or 30 days, or on demand
Minimum trading days
3 days in each phase
Time limit
Unlimited
Fee refunded
Yes, with a qualifying payout
Prices are for the default bi-weekly cycle at 80%. The on-demand cycle costs more ($599 for 100K) and the monthly 95% cycle about 20% more ($683 for 100K). The cycle cannot be changed after purchase.
Daily loss is 5% of the previous day's closing balance and maximum loss a fixed 10% of the initial balance; the 200K size uses 4% and 8%.
News trading and weekend holding are allowed in both phases and on the funded account.
Funded accounts require a stop-loss on every trade and cap the risk per trade idea at 2% of the initial balance.
Leverage is 1:50 on forex, 1:10 on indices and metals, 1:5 on exotics, 1:2 on commodities and 1:1 on crypto.
The challenge fee is refunded with the fourth payout from the funded account. Add-on fees are not refunded.
2-Step Pro
2-step
Account sizes
$2K to $200K
Price
$17 to $1,199
Drawdown
Static
Profit split
80%, up to 95%
Payouts
Every 14 or 30 days, or on demand
Minimum trading days
2 days in each phase
Time limit
Unlimited
Fee refunded
Yes, with a qualifying payout
Prices are for the default bi-weekly cycle at 80%. The on-demand cycle costs more ($719 for 100K) and the monthly 95% cycle about 20% more ($817 for 100K). The cycle cannot be changed after purchase.
Targets and loss limits match 2-Step Prime: 5% daily and 10% maximum, or 4% and 8% on 200K. Leverage is higher: 1:100 on forex, 1:20 on indices and metals, 1:10 on exotics, 1:5 on commodities and 1:2 on crypto.
On the funded account, trades on instruments affected by high-impact news cannot be opened or closed from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the release, and profit from that window is reversed. The challenge has no news restriction.
On the funded account, positions still open at 15:45 EST on Friday are closed by the system and the account is paused until Monday.
Funded accounts have a cap on total open lots: 10 on 25K, 20 on 50K, 40 on 100K and 80 on 200K, with no cap on 5K and 10K. A second breach cuts the split to 30% and ends the account.
Funded accounts require a stop-loss on every trade and cap the risk per trade idea at 2% of the initial balance.
The challenge fee is refunded with the fourth payout from the funded account. Add-on fees are not refunded.
Direct Account
Instant funding
Account sizes
$2K to $100K
Price
$40 to $1,049
Drawdown
End-of-day trailing
Profit split
80%, up to 90%
Payouts
Every 14 days
Minimum trading days
None
Time limit
Unlimited
Prices are for the 80% split. A 90% split option costs about 20% more ($1,259 for 100K).
Payouts can be requested every 14 calendar days, counted from the first trade.
Daily loss is 3% of the previous day's closing balance. The 7% maximum loss trails the highest end-of-day balance and stops trailing once it reaches the initial balance.
Trades on instruments affected by high-impact news cannot be opened or closed from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the release; a stop-loss or take-profit filled in that window closes the account.
Holding positions over the weekend is a hard breach. Open trades are closed at 15:45 EST on Friday and the account is terminated.
EAs are not allowed. KYC and the trader agreement must be completed before trading is enabled.
Only two Direct accounts can be traded at the same time, and Direct accounts cannot be merged.
Leverage is 1:50 on forex, 1:10 on metals, 1:5 on indices and exotics, 1:2 on commodities and 1:1 on crypto.
The Direct Account pages do not mention a fee refund.
Trading rules
What Hola Prime lets you do on its accounts, taken from its rules and FAQ pages.
News trading
Allowed with limits
Unrestricted on 1-Step and 2-Step Prime accounts and in 2-Step Pro challenges. On 2-Step Pro funded accounts and Direct accounts, trades on affected instruments may not be opened or closed, including by pending, stop-loss or take-profit orders, from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news. Pro profits from that window are reversed; on Direct accounts a violation closes the account.
Expert advisors
Allowed with limits
EAs and bots are allowed only on MT5 with the paid EA add-on, priced at 10% of the base fee. They are not allowed on cTrader, Match-Trader, TradeLocker or Direct accounts, may not copy others, tick-scalp, run arbitrage or HFT, and the EA strategy must be declared when the funded account is issued.
Copy trading
Allowed with limits
Copying is allowed only between Hola Prime accounts owned by the same person. Challenge accounts have no limit, but funded accounts are limited to one master and one copier. Copying from accounts at other prop firms is prohibited on accounts bought from 15 September 2026.
Overnight holding
Allowed
Weekend holding
Allowed with limits
Allowed on 1-Step and 2-Step Prime accounts and in 2-Step Pro challenges. On 2-Step Pro funded accounts, trades open at 15:45 EST on Friday are closed and the account is paused until Monday. On Direct accounts, weekend holding is a hard breach.
Rules to read before you buy
Daily loss is measured from the previous day's closing balance, includes floating losses, and resets at 17:00 EST.
On funded and Direct accounts, every trade needs a stop-loss and risk per trade idea is capped at 2% of the initial balance. Same-direction positions in one instrument that overlap, or that re-enter within 10 minutes, count as one idea.
Funded capital is capped at $400,000 per trader (combinations of up to four $50K plus either two $100K or one $200K accounts) and $800,000 when forex and futures accounts are combined.
Traders in Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Israel, Thailand, Botswana, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Jamaica and Mozambique are capped at $90,000 and cannot buy the 100K or 200K sizes.
US traders can use only Match-Trader and TradeLocker; those two platforms are offered only in the US and UK. The $2K size is MT5-only and not sold in the US, UK and several other countries. cTrader adds $20 to the fee.
A swap-free add-on costs 10% of the base fee.
Grid trading, one-sided betting, gap trading before major events or long market closures, and excessive margin use are prohibited. MT5 accounts are limited to 100 open orders and 1,000 positions per day.
Passing a challenge with an EA and then trading the funded account manually, or the reverse, is prohibited.
A funded account that breaches only the daily loss limit can still be paid its profit if every trade had a stop-loss and no single trade made or lost more than 1% of the initial balance.
Traders flagged as high risk can be moved to the Prime Consistency Program, which resets profit to the initial balance and applies a 1% risk cap, a 30% margin cap and a news ban.
Inactivity: An account is breached if no trade is opened for 30 consecutive calendar days. Closing trades, editing orders or placing pending orders does not count.
How the drawdown works
Static (1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime, 2-Step Pro)
The loss limit is fixed at a set distance below your starting balance and never moves.
End-of-day trailing (Direct Account)
The loss limit moves up once a day, based on your end-of-day balance, and ignores swings during the session.
Consistency rules
1-Step Prime
None on the 14- and 30-day cycles; best day capped at 40% of profit for on-demand payouts
2-Step Prime
None on the 14- and 30-day cycles; best day capped at 40% of profit for on-demand payouts
2-Step Pro
None on the 14- and 30-day cycles; best day capped at 40% of profit for on-demand payouts
Direct Account
Best day must be no more than 20% of total profit at each payout
80% on the bi-weekly and on-demand cycles and 95% on the monthly cycle. Direct accounts pay 80%, or 90% with a higher-priced option.
How often
Set at purchase: every 14 days with at least 3 profitable days, every 30 days with at least 7 profitable days, or on demand once profit reaches 2% of the initial balance with a 40% consistency score. Direct accounts pay every 14 days with a 20% consistency score.
First payout
Depends on the chosen cycle and on passing KYC, a KYC interview and an account review. Direct accounts can request a payout 14 calendar days after the first trade.
Minimum withdrawal
$50 for bank wire and crypto and $500 for Rise, counted on the trader's share.
A profitable day needs net closed profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance, measured on the lower of end-of-day balance or equity.
A 2.5% processing fee applies to every payout, with a minimum of $25 for Rise and bank wire and $5 for crypto.
Each payout is reviewed (up to 24 business hours) and then processed within one hour on business days.
Crypto payouts are made in BTC, ETH, USDC or USDT (ERC-20 and TRC-20). Traders in countries Rise does not support are paid in crypto.
The next payout date is counted from the first trade opened after the previous payout.
Funded accounts from the same Pro or Prime model can be merged up to $400,000 in total.
The FAQ describes challenge and funded accounts as demo accounts with virtual funds, while a site disclosure says funded accounts may be simulated, live or copied.
Ways to get paid
Crypto
Bank wire
Rise
Scaling plan
Funded accounts can scale every four months after at least 10% net profit, with two profitable months and two payouts in the cycle. Each step adds 25%, then 40%, then 50% of the initial balance, up to $4,000,000.
The four-month cycle starts with the first trade, and the balance must be positive when scaling is requested.
The first scale adds 25% of the initial balance. The second adds 40% and gives Alpha Prime membership. Every later scale adds 50%.
Scaling is not automatic: the trader must request it through support.
Loss limits are recalculated on the scaled balance. From the second scale, 2-Step Pro lot caps rise by 10% of the original cap per scale.
Platforms and payments
Trading platforms
MetaTrader 5
cTrader
Match-Trader
TradeLocker
Markets
Forex
Indices
Metals
Energy
Crypto
Pay for a challenge with
Credit or debit card
Crypto
Bank transfer
Apple Pay
Google Pay
PayPal
Skrill
Neteller
Revolut Pay
Who can sign up
Hola Prime accepts traders from the United States. It lists 34 restricted countries.
List prices run from $9 for the $2K 2-Step Prime account to $1,199 for the $200K 2-Step Pro account, before any discount.
What profit split does Hola Prime pay?
80% on the bi-weekly and on-demand cycles and 95% on the monthly cycle. Direct accounts pay 80%, or 90% with a higher-priced option.. The highest split across its programs is 95%.
How often does Hola Prime pay out?
Set at purchase: every 14 days with at least 3 profitable days, every 30 days with at least 7 profitable days, or on demand once profit reaches 2% of the initial balance with a 40% consistency score. Direct accounts pay every 14 days with a 20% consistency score.. First payout: Depends on the chosen cycle and on passing KYC, a KYC interview and an account review. Direct accounts can request a payout 14 calendar days after the first trade..
Does Hola Prime allow news trading?
Allowed with limits. Unrestricted on 1-Step and 2-Step Prime accounts and in 2-Step Pro challenges. On 2-Step Pro funded accounts and Direct accounts, trades on affected instruments may not be opened or closed, including by pending, stop-loss or take-profit orders, from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news. Pro profits from that window are reversed; on Direct accounts a violation closes the account.
Can I use expert advisors (EAs) with Hola Prime?
Allowed with limits. EAs and bots are allowed only on MT5 with the paid EA add-on, priced at 10% of the base fee. They are not allowed on cTrader, Match-Trader, TradeLocker or Direct accounts, may not copy others, tick-scalp, run arbitrage or HFT, and the EA strategy must be declared when the funded account is issued.
Does Hola Prime accept traders from the United States?
Yes. Hola Prime's terms allow US residents to sign up. It does restrict 34 other countries, listed on this page.
Which platforms can I trade on with Hola Prime?
MetaTrader 5, cTrader, Match-Trader, TradeLocker.
How long has Hola Prime been operating?
Hola Prime was founded in 2024 and is based in Hong Kong. Its CEO is Somesh Kapuria.
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