Hola Prime

Hola Prime – Trading Conditions

Hola Prime's rules are scattered across more pages than you'd expect for one firm, but once you piece them together, a pretty clear personality emerges: they really, really don't want you gambling, scalping, or letting a robot trade for you.

Let's go through it.

Prohibited Strategies

The list is long, and Hola Prime spells out exactly what counts as gambling behavior instead of leaving it vague:

▪ Setting buy orders at multiple ascending prices and sell orders above them, so you only profit if the market stays inside that range

▪ One-sided betting

▪ Arbitrage and group hedging

▪ Account rolling and tick scalping

▪ Exploiting server errors

▪ Guaranteeing profits during known low-liquidity periods

That first one is suspiciously specific for a list of "things we don't allow." Somebody clearly tried the price-range grid trick, got caught, and now it has its own bullet point with a worked example. Hola Prime even adds that anything "designed to circumvent the intent" of the rules counts too — so technically staying inside the lines doesn't save you if the lines were clearly there to stop exactly what you did.

Expert Advisors & Automation

No nuance here, no pre-approval form, no "describe your EA's holding time" questionnaire. Bots, EAs, and any semi or fully automated trading are not allowed, full stop, on any account.

If your trading style involves a script doing the clicking for you, Hola Prime is not your firm. Manual only.

Drawdown System

▪ Daily Loss Limit: 3% of the previous day's closing balance

▪ Max Loss Limit: 6% of initial balance

▪ Max Risk Per Trade Idea (funded stage): 2% of initial balance

Both loss limits are hard breaches — no warning shot, no grace period. And before you get clever stacking five small positions in the same direction to dodge the per-trade cap, Hola Prime already closed that loophole: overlapping same-direction entries count as one "trade idea," not five separate ones.

Weekend Holding

Technically allowed. Practically, Hola Prime closes anything still open at 15:45 EST on Friday for you, before the actual weekend rollover hits at 17:00.

So you can hold over the weekend, in the same sense that you can stay at a party after the lights come on. Profit from the forced close still counts toward your payout, which is fair. But if that forced close drags you into a loss-limit breach, that's still on you, not the system.

News Trading

Allowed, with a catch that only matters if you're already in the trade when it matters most: any instrument directly affected by a high-impact release can't be opened, closed, or modified in the 5 minutes before or after it drops. Everything else trades normally.

So holding through the chaos is fine. Clicking during the chaos is not. A very on-brand rule for a firm that also has an entire bullet point dedicated to grid-trading.

Tick Scalping & Fast Trading

There's no official "minimum hold time" written into the rules. There's also no real ambiguity once you read the fine print: consistently closing trades in under 3 minutes with no plan behind them gets flagged as a pattern, rule technically broken or not.

Hola Prime also recommends keeping per-trade risk around 0.75–1% and margin usage near 30% under normal conditions — well under the hard 2% ceiling, which tells you the hard limit isn't really meant to be your target.

KYC & Payout Verification

No KYC at signup — it shows up after you clear the challenge, with a mandatory verification interview before your first payout goes through. Document checks run 48–72 hours, and whatever name you registered with had better match your ID exactly, because that field is locked the moment you sign up.

Plan ahead. Future-you doesn't get to fix past-you's typo.

Risk Team Discretion

Hola Prime's risk team can lower your loss limits, restrict lot sizes, nullify specific trades, or terminate the account outright if your trading looks like it's working around the rules rather than within them — even if no single rule was technically broken.

In other words: the rulebook is the floor, not the whole conversation.

Final Take

Hola Prime isn't trying to be the most permissive firm on the list, and it doesn't pretend otherwise. No EAs, a clearly defined gambling clause, and a risk team with broad discretion to step in when something smells off — this is a firm built around manual, disciplined trading, not around accommodating every possible style.

If you're an automated or grid-style trader, this isn't your firm. If you're a patient, manual trader who isn't trying to outsmart the system, the rules here are at least written clearly enough that you'll know exactly where the line is before you cross it.