One of the longest-running firms (since 2016), with a no-trailing drawdown that GROWS as you profit, a forgiving daily 'pause' instead of a hard blow-out on Hyper Growth, unlimited time, and up to 100% split — offset by a long list of EA/arbitrage gotchas that void accounts with no refund.
A forgiving structure — daily 'pause' not death on Hyper Growth, drawdown that grows with profit, unlimited time, overnight + weekend holding — wrapped around a strict prohibited-practices list enforced after the fact.
Pros
Hyper Growth's daily limit is a 'pause' that disables the account for the day, not a termination
Drawdown is absolute/static (not trailing) and grows as you bank profit
Up to 100% profit split, with auto-doubling scaling toward $4M
Overnight and weekend holding allowed on all programs; holding through news allowed
Watch out
Common complaint: accounts terminated or payouts denied once consistently profitable
Traders report severe stop-loss slippage on some fills
Recurring gripe: KYC re-checks and delays around the first withdrawal
Best for: Swing/position and EA-friendly traders who want unlimited time, overnight/weekend holding and a soft daily 'pause' — and who steer clear of tick-scalping, latency and news-window execution.
Bottom line: One of the more humane rule sets if you swing-trade a clean strategy — just read the prohibited-practices list before you size up.
Quick facts
Account sizes
$2.5K – $100K
Profit split
75% – 100%
Max scaling
$4,000,000
Platforms
MT5
Instruments
Forex, Indices, Metals, Commodities, Crypto
Payouts
High Stakes: after ≥$150 profit + 14 days active, then bi-weekly
On Hyper Growth (and Bootcamp funded) the 3% daily limit is a PAUSE: hit it and the account is disabled only for the rest of that day, then resumes at 00:00 MT5 server time — you lose the day, not the account. On High Stakes the 5% daily is a hard limit (measured from the higher of the previous day's closing balance or equity) and breaching it terminates the account.
Gotcha: Don't confuse the two: traders treat Hyper's pause as harmless and then get terminated on a High Stakes account where the same 'just one bad day' is a hard breach.
Absolute/static (NOT trailing): Hyper Growth stops you out 6% below your initial account size; High Stakes is 10% from the initial balance; Bootcamp is 5% on steps, 4% funded. The allowance INCREASES as you bank profit — e.g. a $10K Hyper account's $600 floor grows as equity climbs — and it never trails back down.
Gotcha: Requesting a payout reduces your balance and therefore SHRINKS your max-drawdown buffer — withdraw aggressively and you tighten your own stop-out.
Hyper Growth has NO consistency rule and no minimum days. High Stakes requires 3 profitable days to advance a phase, where a profitable day = closed positions netting at least 0.5% of the initial balance.
Gotcha: Manufacturing 'profitable days' with opposing/correlated positions ('artificial profit distribution') is a prohibited practice that voids the account.
Hyper Growth: 10% (Level 1). High Stakes New: 10% then 5%. High Stakes Classic: 8% then 5%. Bootcamp: 6%/6%/6% across three steps, 5% once funded. Time to reach them is unlimited.
You may HOLD existing trades through news on all programs, but you cannot open or close orders from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after a high-impact release.
Gotcha: Asymmetric: profits made in the ±2-minute window are deducted and don't count, but losses are absorbed by you. Bracketing news with buy-stop + sell-stop orders is separately forbidden.
Overnight and weekend holding are allowed on all programs. You bear the rollover/swap, gap and liquidity risk (e.g. crude-oil swaps are noted as larger over the weekend).
EAs are allowed only if you own the source code. Third-party/shared EAs where other traders run the same trades are forbidden, as are EAs that flood the server with requests. Your stop-loss must be visible in the platform — 'stealth-mode' hidden stop-losses are prohibited.
Gotcha: Prohibited-EA or hidden-SL accounts are 'canceled, banned, and not refunded' — there's no warning and no money back.
Prohibited: high-frequency trading (durations of 'a few seconds or less'), tick scalping (in/out within seconds), latency arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, hedge arbitrage (same pair bought/sold across accounts), general price-glitch arbitrage and rollover-scalping EAs.
Gotcha: No exact millisecond figure is published — 'a few seconds or less' is the only threshold, so very fast scalpers can be flagged. Exploiting a price-feed error voids the account with no refund.
Also banned: bracketing around news; one-sided/single-direction bets; 'gambling-like' disproportionate sizing with no stop-loss or analysis; over-leveraging your whole margin into one pair; artificial profit distribution (opposing/correlated trades to fake green days); cross-operator hedging across firms; and account sharing/reselling or managing accounts for profit-share.
Gotcha: 'Disproportionate position sizing' — trades much larger or smaller than your usual activity — can be flagged after the fact even if no other rule was broken. Consequence: termination, no refund or profit, permanent ban.
On High Stakes the first payout needs the funded account to have generated at least $150 profit and been active at least 14 days; after that it's bi-weekly (every 14 days). Split scales up to 100%, and you can leave profit in the account to grow your drawdown buffer. Withdrawals run via Rise, bank transfer or crypto.
Gotcha: Because the max-drawdown floor is set off your balance, withdrawing profit shrinks your loss buffer — there's a real trade-off between cashing out and trading room.
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