Minimum Trading Days

• 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Pro - Evaluation: 2 days | Funded: None with On-demand Payouts / 3 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Bi-weekly payouts / 7 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Monthly Payouts
• 2-Step Prime - Evaluation: 3 days | Funded: None with On-demand Payouts / 3 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Bi-weekly payouts / 7 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Monthly Payouts
• One Challenge - Evaluation: None | Funded: 3 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Bi-weekly payouts / 7 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Monthly Payouts
• Direct(Instant Funding) - None

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News Trading

• Evaluation: Allowed with no restrictions

Funded

• One Challenge, 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime: Allowed with no restrictions
• 2-Step Pro & Direct(Instant Funding): Trades can be held through news but no orders may be executed (including pending orders, SL & TP) on affected instruments within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news release.
• For Pro - Profits from trades executed during this window will be reversed, and reckless exploitation of news volatility may result in account termination.
• For Direct - Violation is a direct hard breach

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Expert Advisor

EAs and algorithms are permitted but must be customized to remain distinct from other traders' strategies. Accounts using 3rd party, identical or near-identical EA configurations may be grouped under a combined capital allocation, and Hola Prime may deny, rebalance, or terminate such accounts. The Risk team may request EA source code at any time for review.

Note: EAs are strictly prohibited on Direct Model(Instant Funding) accounts.

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Copy Trading

Copy trading is permitted only between Hola Prime accounts (both challenge and funded) owned by the same individual. Copying from external accounts or between accounts owned by different people is strictly prohibited. Accounts sharing identical trade patterns (open and close price, lot size, symbols, etc.) will be considered a breach and immediately terminated.

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Weekend Holding & Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Evaluation: Allowed

Funded

• One Challenge, 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime: Allowed
• 2-Step Pro & Direct(Instant Funding): Prohibited
• For Pro - All trades are automatically closed at 15:45 EST on Friday and the account is disabled, contact support to have it re-enabled for trading from Monday onwards.
• For Direct - All trades must be closed before 15:45 EST on Friday, any trades remaining open will be auto-closed and the account permanently terminated (hard breach).

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Inactivity Rule

Accounts inactive for 30 consecutive days are permanently suspended. Only opening a new trade counts as an active trading day.

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2% Risk Rule (Funded & Direct Accounts)

Your risk per trade idea should not exceed 2% of the account size (initial balance). This includes;

• Single Trade Idea
• Layering/Splitting Positions - multiple positions on the same or correlated assets, same direction, with overlapping time are collectively treated as one single trade idea.
• The 10-Minute Re-entry Rule - Opening a new position in the same direction on the same or correlated asset within 10 minutes of closing counts as the continuation of the same trade idea.
• Breach of this rule will result in a hard breach and termination of the account.

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Stop Loss Rules For Defining The 2% Risk.

• Stop-loss levels must be set in accordance with the permitted risk limit.
• Traders are required to place a stop-loss within 3 minutes of opening a position or prior to closing the position, whichever occurs earlier.
• Traders must follow sound risk management at all times. Violations of prohibited trading practices may result in the risk limit being reduced to 1%, communicated via official channels.

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Max Exposure Limits (2 Step Pro — Funded only)

• $5K & $10K — No lot limit
• $25K — 10 lots | $50K — 20 lots | $100K — 40 lots | $200K — 80 lots

If breached:

• All open trades auto-closed and account disabled
• Profits from exceeding trades are deducted
• Trader is responsible if deductions trigger Daily or Max Loss Limit breach

Consequences:

• 1st breach: Warning + profit deduction; account can be re-enabled via support
• 2nd breach: Profit deduction + profit split reduced to 30% + account termination

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Daily drawdown breach Payout protection policy

If the Daily Loss Limit is breached but the account is profitable, the trader may still receive 100% of their reward and fee reimbursement provided: no single trade exceeded 1% of the initial balance in profit or loss, and all trades had a stop loss in place. Both conditions must be met. Any breach caused by prohibited trading practices or other rule violations results in full forfeiture of profits and pending payouts.

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Direct & One Challenge Trailing Drawdown Lock

Once a trader reaches 7% profit, the trailing max drawdown locks at the starting balance and no longer trails upward.

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Prohibited strategies

• Gambling / Speculative Trading
• Hyperactivity / Excessive Trading
• Account or Device Sharing
• One-Sided Betting
• Arbitrage Trading
• Tick Scalping / High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Copy Trading Across Different Users
• Group Hedging / Cross-Account Hedging
• Gap Trading
• Trading Without Technicals or Fundamentals
• Account Rolling
• Overleveraging / Overexposure
• Exploiting Server Errors / Price Feed Discrepancies
• Quick Strike Methods
• Platform Exploitation

See details: https://holaprime.com/trading-rules-list/trading-rules-prohibited-trading-practices/?affiliateId=Duc7979