Hola Prime is a CFD prop trading firm with four evaluation tracks (1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime, 2-Step Pro and 2-Step Fly) and an instant-funding model called Direct, all advertising an 80% base profit split. Several of its rules end an account on the first violation, and those breach rules and the costs of the payout options affect results more than the headline prices do.
What Hola Prime is and who runs it
Hola Prime is based in Hong Kong and was established in August 2024, a short operating history compared with older prop firms. Its main site is holaprime.com.
Hola Prime sells evaluations rather than taking deposits: you pay a one-time fee, trade a demo account under set rules, and once you qualify receive a share of what the rules call “net simulated profit” in the “Sim Funded” stage. Payouts are rewards based on simulated trading, not returns on capital placed in a live market.
Trading runs on Match Trader, cTrader, MT5 and TradeLocker. The rules state that TradeLocker and Match Trader are only available to US and UK traders, and that the 2-Step Fly challenge runs on MT5 and TradeLocker. Instruments cover forex, metals, indices, energy and crypto CFDs.
Programs and what they cost
1-Step Prime
One phase with a 10% profit target, a 3% daily loss limit and a 6% static max loss. Fees run from $49 for $5K to $1,109 for $200K. The max loss is smaller than the target, so you must gain more than you are allowed to lose overall.
2-Step Prime
Two phases with targets of 8% and then 5%, a 5% daily loss limit and a 10% static max loss. Fees run from $39 for $5K to $1,109 for $200K, close to 1-Step Prime at each size; at $50K the two-step costs less ($299 against $329) and gives more drawdown room in exchange for a second phase.
2-Step Pro
Fees run from $59 for $5K to $1,199 for $200K, the highest evaluation prices of the four tracks at most sizes.
2-Step Fly
Available from $10K ($89) to $100K ($598). Fly uses a trailing maximum drawdown that stops trailing once it reaches 3% below the initial balance.
Direct (instant funding)
Direct skips the evaluation and starts you on a funded account: $109 for $5K, $199 for $10K and $439 for $25K. That is far more per dollar of account than the evaluations; a $25K 1-Step Prime costs $199. Direct uses a trailing drawdown that locks at the starting balance once your profit equals the max trailing drawdown amount.
Leverage and commissions
Leverage depends on both the asset class and the program. Two-step accounts get the most:
| Asset | Instant (Direct) | 1-Step | 2-Step |
|---|---|---|---|
| FX | 1:50 | 1:50 | 1:100 |
| Metals | 1:10 | 1:10 | 1:20 |
| Indices | 1:5 | 1:10 | 1:20 |
| Energy | 1:2 | 1:2 | 1:2 |
| Crypto | 1:1 | 1:1 | 1:2 |
Commissions are quoted per lot, round trip. The same schedule covers Direct, Prime, Pro and Fly evaluation accounts, and Fly funded accounts pay a separate, higher rate:
- FX: $6 per lot; $8 on Fly funded.
- Metals: gold $6 per lot and other metals $3 per lot; $8 on Fly funded.
- Indices: no commission; $8 per lot on Fly funded.
- Energy: $3 per lot; $8 on Fly funded.
- Crypto: no commission; 0.05% per $100K of traded volume, round trip, on Fly funded.
Trading rules that can end an account
Hola Prime labels many violations as “hard breaches”: the account is terminated rather than warned.
The 2% risk per trade idea rule
On Direct, 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime and 2-Step Pro funded accounts, the risk on any single trade idea may not exceed 2% of the initial balance. The firm counts as one trade idea:
- multiple positions on the same asset, in the same direction, with overlapping time (layering or splitting an entry);
- a new position in the same direction on the same asset opened within 10 minutes of closing the previous one.
A stop loss is mandatory, and a trade without one is treated as infinite risk. You do not have to set the stop at entry, but it must be in place before the trade closes. Breaking the 2% rule is a hard breach. Traders flagged for prohibited practices can have the limit cut to 1%.
Hypothetical example: on a $50K account, 2% is $1,000. Three EUR/USD buys opened minutes apart, each risking $400 to its stop, count as one idea risking $1,200, which is over the limit even though no single position is.
News and weekend restrictions
1-Step Prime and 2-Step Prime allow news trading and weekend holding without restriction. The other models are tighter:
- 2-Step Fly: no orders of any kind (including pending orders and stop loss or take profit changes) on affected instruments from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after a high-impact release, though positions may be held through it. All trades must be closed before 15:45 EST on Friday; anything left open is auto-closed and the account permanently terminated. Both are hard breaches.
- Direct: the same news window and the same Friday 15:45 EST close, both hard breaches.
- 2-Step Pro: the same news window with a softer penalty: profits from trades in the window are reversed, and reckless exploitation of news volatility can lead to termination. Trades are auto-closed at 15:45 EST Friday and the account is disabled until support re-enables it for Monday. Hola Prime’s rules describe Pro as unrestricted in one place and restricted in another, so confirm with the firm which stage the limits cover before holding a Pro position into Friday’s close.
EAs, copy trading and strategy consistency
Expert advisors and bots are allowed only on MT5, only with the paid EA add-on, and never on Direct accounts. An EA must follow Hola Prime’s rules, be customized to differ from other traders’ setups, and may not be used for copying another person’s signals, tick scalping, latency, reverse or hedge arbitrage, HFT or emulator-based systems. Funded traders must declare their EA strategy and report material changes; the firm may request the configuration or source code and may group near-identical EA accounts under one capital allocation or terminate them. Position sizers and risk calculators are allowed only if they do not place or modify trades.
You must also trade broadly the same way in the challenge and the funded stage. Passing with a bot and then trading manually (or the reverse), or materially changing asset classes, margin use or risk exposure between stages, can lead to review, suspension or denial of rewards.
Copy trading is allowed only between accounts owned by the same person:
- between challenge accounts, without limit;
- for funded accounts, at most one master and one copier;
- from challenge to funded, into a single funded account only; from funded to challenge accounts, without limit.
Copying from accounts at other prop firms is prohibited.
Exposure limits on 2-Step Pro
2-Step Pro funded accounts have lot exposure caps: none at $5K and $10K, then 10 lots at $25K, 20 at $50K, 40 at $100K and 80 at $200K. Going over the cap auto-closes all trades, disables the account and deducts profits from the excess trades. If that deduction pushes the account through its daily or max loss limit, the breach counts. A first breach brings a warning and a profit deduction. A second brings another deduction, a profit split cut to 30% and termination. From the second scaling onward, the cap rises by 10% of the original base limit at each successful scaling.
All accounts are capped at 5 lots per order, with no limit on the number of trades. MT5 enforces its own platform limits: 100 orders at a time and 1,000 positions per day, with stop loss, take profit and limit-order modifications counting toward the daily figure.
Prohibited practices and inactivity
The prohibited list is long. It includes gambling-style trading (concentrated exposure, grid trading, excessive margin use, trading without regard to technicals or fundamentals), hyperactivity, account or device sharing, one-sided betting, arbitrage, tick scalping and HFT, cross-account or group hedging, gap trading, account rolling, overleveraging, exploiting server or price-feed errors, quick-strike methods, martingale and dollar-cost averaging. The firm also publishes a separate device, VPN, VPS and IP address policy. None of these prohibitions apply to 2-Step Fly funded accounts.
An account with no new trade opened for 30 consecutive days is permanently suspended. Only opening a trade counts as activity, so managing an existing position does not reset the clock.
Hola Prime also runs a Prime Consistency Program for traders whose recent behavior it judges to show elevated risk or inconsistency.
Payouts, profit split and withdrawals
On 2-Step Pro, 1-Step Prime and 2-Step Prime funded accounts, you choose the payout frequency, and that choice sets both the split and the trading-day requirement:
- Bi-weekly: 80% split, with at least 3 profitable trading days in a 14-day cycle.
- Monthly: 95% split for a 20% higher challenge price, with at least 7 profitable trading days in a 30-day cycle.
- On demand: 80% split for a higher challenge price (+7% on 1-Step Prime, +5% on 2-Step Prime, +6% on 2-Step Pro). Requires a 40% consistency score and minimum profit of 2% of the initial balance, with no profitable-day count.
A profitable trading day means closed positions netting at least 0.5% of the initial balance. On a $100K account, that is $500 in realized profit for the day.
Direct pays bi-weekly at 80%, or 90% with an add-on, subject to its 20% consistency score. Its minimum withdrawal is 1% of the starting balance on accounts under $50K and 0.5% at $50K and above.
A daily loss breach does not always forfeit earnings. If the account is profitable when the daily limit is hit, the trader can still receive the full reward and fee reimbursement, but only if no single trade made or lost more than 1% of the initial balance and every trade had a stop loss. Breaches caused by prohibited practices forfeit all profits and pending payouts.
Withdrawal methods and fees:
- Bank wire and crypto: minimum $50 (excluding the firm’s share). Supported coins are BTC, ETH, USDC and USDT on ERC-20 and TRC-20.
- Rise: minimum $500, with bank and crypto payout options and a flat $25 fee.
- All methods: a 2.5% processing fee, with a minimum of $25 for Rise and bank wire and $5 for crypto.
The 2.5% fee comes out of your share. Hypothetical example: a $1,000 crypto withdrawal would lose $25 to processing, while a $100 crypto withdrawal would pay the $5 minimum.
Scaling and loyalty programs
Each scaling step requires a cycle of at least four months (with at least two of them profitable), 10% total net simulated profit, at least two payouts and a positive balance at the time of scaling. You request it through email or live chat. The first scaling adds 25% to the account, the second adds 40% and brings Alpha Prime membership, and every later scaling adds 50%. Separately, Prime Circle is an invitation-style program for traders with multiple successful payouts.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Entry prices from $39 for a $5K 2-Step Prime.
- Four platforms and five program models, including instant funding.
- Flexible payouts, including on-demand and a 95% monthly option.
- News trading and weekend holding on Prime accounts.
- Payout protection after some daily loss breaches.
Trade-offs
- Short track record (established August 2024).
- Many hard-breach rules, notably the 2% risk-per-idea rule and the 10-minute re-entry clause.
- Higher splits and faster payouts raise the challenge price.
- A 2.5% processing fee on every withdrawal.
- Wide firm discretion under the strategy-consistency and EA declaration rules.
- Direct’s high cost per dollar of account.
How we checked Hola Prime
We visited holaprime.com on 13 November 2026 from Tallinn, Estonia. The home page loaded and we scrolled down to the footer. We used the Forex plan selector on the home page, then opened the Prime Challenge and Pro Challenge pricing pages, the forex trading rules, the FAQ, both payout pages, the platform pages, the scaling page, the prohibited practices page and the terms.
The prices were easy to find. A $2K 2-Step Prime was listed at $19 and the $200K size at $1,109. On 1-Step Prime, $50K cost $329, and 2-Step Pro topped out at $1,199 for $200K. The rules page states a 2.5% payout processing fee, with a minimum of $25 for Rise and Bank Wire and $5 for crypto. It also caps combined Forex and Futures allocation at $800K. When we clicked “Get Funded”, the site sent us to a challenge page on trader.holaprime.com. We stopped there. We bought nothing, so we cannot say whether an account is required before payment. We also did not see a risk warning on the pages we opened.
The footer names Hola Prime Limited, Hola Prime Ltd and GT Tech LLC. It cites licence GB24203729 and reg-no 220248. It also says Hola Prime Limited Cyprus is registered in Cyprus under HE 454359 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hola Prime Limited, Hong Kong. None of these claims pointed to a register we are able to query, so we ran no register check on this firm.
We read the Trustpilot profile on 13 November 2026. It showed 4.5/5 from 4,293 reviews, with 84% five-star and 8% one-star, and the company had replied to all 8 of the newest reviews. The first Wayback Machine capture of the domain dates from 2021-12-03. That capture may predate the current brand. We had no way to confirm the claims of $10M+ in cumulative payouts or 99.90% of payouts approved within one hour, so treat both as the firm’s own figures.
Who Hola Prime may suit
1-Step Prime and 2-Step Prime fit discretionary forex or index traders who use stops, size each idea well under 2% and want to hold through news or weekends. 2-Step Fly suits traders whose methods appear on the prohibited list (such as grid or high-frequency manual styles) and who can accept stricter news and Friday rules plus higher funded commissions. Algorithmic traders are limited to MT5 with the paid add-on. Traders who average into losing positions or re-enter quickly after stops will run into the trade-idea rules on most accounts.
Alternatives
| Provider | Score | Fee | Split | Payouts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3/10 | $70 | 90% | 7 day payouts | Review | |
| 7.7/10 | $316 | 80% | Bi-Weekly or On-Demand | Review | |
| 6.0/10 | $420 | 90% | Bi-Weekly | Review |
FAQ
Is there a Hola Prime discount code?
Hola Prime has no public discount code.