Hola Prime Review 2026

Expert Verdict on Hola Prime

Hola Prime was founded in mid-2024 and is based in Hong Kong. During this review, I chose the $5K 1-Step Challenge, using the TradeLocker platform. (I am an American, and MetaTrader isn’t allowed.) I found the entry fee cheap and a great way to introduce myself to this firm.

I found the support to be very fast and quite comprehensive. The community is lively on Discord, and the firm has a strong social media presence. The rules are listed on the site, but it isn’t always easy to find them, and you need to pay special attention to funded account rules. There are 4 challenge options, including instant, 1-step, and 2-step. They are all in line with industry average pricing (some even above).

The trade execution was good, and there are a lot of platforms to choose from. There are 37 forex pairs, 9 indices, 4 crypto, 2 metals, and 3 energies, so if you are looking for a more comprehensive list of assets to trade, there are going to be some limits here; they do have the popular ones though.

Is Hola Prime For You?

Best For:

• Swing traders: If you are looking to be extremely active, this is a firm you might pass on, with some of the fees being a touch higher than usual. However, if you are a swing trader, Hola Prime will probably suit you fine. That being said, make sure you are using a “Prime account” as those allow weekend holding.
• Those looking for platform choices: If you are looking for platform choices, Hola Prime is a good match. Unless, of course, you are looking for TradingView.

Possible Dealbreakers:

• News traders: Depending on the account you choose, you may or may not be able to execute a trade 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a “high-impact event.”
• Lack of commodities/stocks: If you are looking to trade commodities or stocks, you will be disappointed. There are no stocks available, and the commodities are limited to natural gas, US oil, UK oil, gold, and silver.

Pros and Cons

Trust

Can I Trust Hola Prime?

Company Stability

Founded in mid-2024, Hola Prime is listed as based in Hong Kong, with over 100 employees. They are not regulated as a prop firm, which is normal for this industry, but they do have a regulated brokerage firm as well.

Founded by Somesh Kapuria from India, who also has experience in various roles, including leadership at Citibank in New York, and drove innovative financial products that are still used on Wall Street.

On LinkedIn, there are 81 associated members, with 49 of them being based in India. The LinkedIn profile is somewhat busy, but Hola Prime has generally spent more time on the other social media platforms, like YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Discord, and TikTok.

Trustpilot Rating

TrustPilot is one of the first places that I went to when looking for feedback on how this prop firm performs. Hola Prime has a good 4.5 rating out of 5 possible points. Hola Prime has over 2,600 reviews, with traders saying overwhelmingly that they have had a positive experience with the firm.

Excellent customer service, staff responsiveness, helpfulness, and professional approach in resolving issues have been a consistent theme. Providing clear information has also been a strong suit, with many people appreciating fast and reliable service, including quick payout processing and the smooth KYC verification process.

However, there have been a few complaints recently from funded traders, stating that the withdrawal process is slower than advertised. There are other issues as well, including breached accounts “for no real reason”, although this could just be “sour grapes.”

Prop Firm Match Rating

Hola Prime holds a 4.1 out of 5 rating on Prop Firm Match, based on 49 ratings. There are 31, or 63.26% of the reviews are 5-star. Hola Prime, being listed on Prop Firm Match, means that the site has conducted an evaluation of the firm, which can add more credence to the idea of safety and fairness of Hola Prime to its traders. [Check Date: 9 July 2026]

Transparency

Prop firms can be very opaque when it comes to trading rules. Often, they will choose to bury them in a long FAQ section, or in the contract you sign when you get a SIM-funded account. At Hola Prime, this is no different. That being said, it is all listed in the FAQ section and available to see ahead of time. While I did not find some of these very trader-friendly, there were some here to be seen.

Trading Rules Transparency

The trading rules transparency is a mixed bag at Hola Prime, but they do list them on the site. My biggest problem with this firm is that a few of them can be interpreted any way the firm chooses to. One egregious example is the following from their site:

How does one quantify whether there is any technical or fundamental reasoning behind a trade? In my 21 years of trading, I have thought one thing is going on, only to be wrong. This is what trading literally is. You have to have winners and losers.

I don’t like this paragraph at the end. The only financial harm being done to the firm is that it will have to pay traders who are profitable. There is no harm to the firm if the trader loses; it’s not real money, as it is a simulated account. This screams red flag to me.

News Trading Rules

In Prime Challenge accounts, news trading is allowed without any restrictions in both the Challenge and the Hola Prime Sim. Funded phases. You can open, hold, or close trades around all news events without any concerns.

In the 2-Step Pro account, you are allowed to trade news in the Challenge Phase only. However, in the Funded phase, you can hold trades at any time, but you cannot execute a trade on any instrument affected by high-impact news during the window of 5 minutes before or after the event. This includes market orders, pending orders, and stop-loss and take-profit orders.

In the Direct Model account, you can hold trades at any time, but again, you cannot execute these trades within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a high-impact event. Hola Prime offers an economic calendar in the dashboard for traders to keep an eye on.

Consistency Rule

Hola Prime has consistency rules, and the parameters depend on the account that you have. The Direct accounts have a consistency score rating of up to 20%. In other words, your largest winning day cannot be more than 20% of your total profits. If it is, then you simply continue to trade until no single day is more than 20% of the profit in the account.

For Challenge accounts, the 2-Step Pro, 1-Step Prime, and 2-Step Prime all have consistency rules that apply at payout time. The difference depends on the payout schedule you chose at sign-up.

For bi-weekly payouts, there is no stated consistency cap, but there is a requirement of 3 profitable trading days minimum. A profitable day is considered to be a 0.5% gain or more for the session. Monthly payouts require a minimum of 7 profitable days. With the On-Demand payout scheme, payouts require a 40% consistency score, meaning the biggest day cannot exceed 40% of the payout, plus a minimum of 2% profit on the account.

Payout Transparency

The payout method used by Hola Prime is via RiseWorks, a third-party platform. This allows traders to be paid by bank transfer or crypto, which also means you need to open a RiseWorks account. If Rise doesn’t support transfers to the country of the trader, crypto will be used.

The payout cycles can be as quick as weekly, with an add-on being purchased. However, there is a 35% consistency rule, meaning the largest day cannot be more than 35% of your total earnings in 1 step Prime futures funded accounts. However, one of the biggest draws to Hola Prime is that they try to pay out within an hour of a withdrawal request.

According to Payout Junction, Hola Prime has paid out over $3.6 million, with the largest payout being $35,000. The total payouts are over 1,500, with the largest one being paid on February 5, 2026.

General Transparency

Website

Hola Prime has a modern and easily navigable website, showing many of the benefits of trading at Hola Prime upfront and center. The FAQ section is pretty lengthy and gives you enough information to get a grasp on the accounts and rules. That is one of the biggest things with Hola Prime: the rules are easy to find, but not always easy to define.

While the website is strong, it’s worth noting that the way the categories are laid out makes things easy to find. The comparison of the plans available is found right away, which helps traders make a decision on what path to take quickly.

Social Media

Hola Prime has Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube channels available. Facebook seems to be somewhat unused, with only 110 subscribers. X seems to be more active and has over 13K followers. LinkedIn is active and has over 3K followers as well. On TikTok, Hola Prime has attracted over 6500 followers, and on YouTube, Hola Prime has over 95K followers, which is its biggest channel at the moment.

Risk Management

The dashboard allows you to see the drawdown issues you may or may not have to be worried about, displaying issues prominently.

The rules are there to protect the account, and it leaves the idea of the account protection in the hands of the trader, as the account dashboard plainly shows the amount of “daily loss” you are at, as well as the “max total loss.” If you break the max total loss amount, your account will be terminated.

Challenges

Hola Prime Challenge Comparison

How Hard Is the Hola Prime Challenge? (Difficulty vs. Industry Standards)

At FXEmpire, we have a proprietary algorithm that we use to measure and set a difficulty score for each prop firm we measure. Metrics such as time limit, minimum profitable trading days, consistency rules, EAs, and profit-to-drawdown are all taken into account. From a total of these inputs, we get a normalized score.

• Very Low Difficulty
• Low Difficulty
• Moderate Difficulty
• High Difficulty
• Extreme Difficulty

1-Step Prime Challenge: The 1-Step Prime Challenge has as much as 1:50 leverage (forex), and just a 2-day minimum to pass. The ability to hold over the weekend is a major bonus, and the target of 10% is achievable. The lack of a consistency rule and the ability to trade news will make this account attractive for many. The score for this challenge was 75, mainly because of the profit to drawdown ratio putting it in the high difficultly tier.

2-Step Prime Challenge: The 2-Step Prime Challenge also allows news trading, the ability to hold over the weekend, and no consistency rules. Six days, 3 per phase, are required to pass the challenge. The profit split is the same as the 1-Step, and can be chosen at sign-up. The 2-Step Challenge is considered to be of low difficulty according to our scoring.

2-Step Pro: This account has restrictions on trading news in the form of “high impact events” for specific assets. There is no consistency rule, so this will help traders as well. The 8% and then 5% targets are reasonable for many traders. The high leverage on forex, 1:100, is also a bonus. However, there is no weekend holding either. The 2-Step Pro Challenge is also considered to be of low difficulty.

Direct Model: The Direct Model is simply the same thing as “Instant Funding.” There is a 20% consistency rule, meaning that any one particular day cannot be more than 20% of your payout profits. There is no weekend holding, no news trading, and there are no EAs are allowed. The Direct Model is considered to be high difficulty.

Important Rules

As with many others, Hola Prime has a few rules that are somewhat unique to the firm. The following rules are of special note and apply to the funded account:

• 10 Minute Re-entry Rule: This rule applies to funded and direct accounts, and doesn’t apply to the Challenge phase. This means that if you exit a position, you must wait ten minutes before jumping back in and opening another position in the same direction. Violating this rule is a hard breach and will cause the account to be terminated.
• Single Trade Idea: The total risk on a single trade idea should not exceed 2% of your initial account balance. As an example, on a $100K account, your maximum allowed risk is $2K.
• Layering/Splitting Positions: If you open multiple positions on the same asset, in the same direction, with overlapping time, this is considered to be a single position, as the 2% limit is calculated for the total of all of those trades. This limits the amount of risk that a trader can take on, but it also limits adding to a winning position in some circumstances.

Hola Prime Challenge Phases Overview

1-Step Prime:

💵 Accounts: $5K ($59) → $300K ($1919), Scaling up to $4M

🎯 Target: 10%

📉 Drawdown: 3% Daily Loss (EOD) | 6% Max Loss (Static)

💰 Profit Split: 80% to 95% (with add-on) | Fee Refund of 25% per payout for the first four

⚡Trading: ✅ News Trading | ✅ EAs | ✅Weekend Holding | ❌Copy Trading in Funded Accounts from external sources

📅 Funded Stage: Scaling up to $4M | ✅ News Trading allowed | ✅4 months between increases | ✅No consistency Rule

⚙️ Challenge Parameters: 🔴 2 Minimum Trading Days |🟢 No Consistency Rule |🟢 No Time Limit on Challenge

2-Step Prime:

💵 Accounts: $5K ($47) → $200K ($1127), Scaling up to $4M

🎯 Target: 8% / 5%

📉 Drawdown: 4/5% Daily Loss (EOD) | 8/10% Max Loss (Static)

💰 Profit Split: 80% to 95% (with add-on) | Fee Refund of 25% per payout for the first four

⚡Trading: ✅ News Trading | ✅ EAs | ✅Weekend Holding | ❌Copy Trading in Funded Accounts from external sources

📅 Funded Stage: Scaling up to $4M | ✅ News Trading allowed | ✅4 months between increases | ✅No consistency Rule

⚙️ Challenge Parameters: 🔴 3 Minimum Trading Days per phase |🟢 No Consistency Rule |🟢 No Time Limit on Challenge

2-Step Pro:

💵 Accounts: $5K ($71) → $200K ($1439), Scaling up to $4M

🎯 Target: 8% / 5%

📉 Drawdown: 4/5% Daily Loss (EOD) | 8/10% Max Loss (Static)

💰 Profit Split: 80% to 95% (with add-on) | Fee Refund of 25% per payout for the first four

⚡Trading: ❌ News Trading | ✅ EAs | ❌ Weekend Holding | ❌Copy Trading in Funded Accounts from external sources

📅 Funded Stage: Scaling up to $4M| ✅ News Trading allowed | ✅4 months between increases | ✅No consistency Rule

⚙️ Challenge Parameters: 🔴 2 Minimum Trading Days per phase |🟢 No Consistency Rule |🟢 No Time Limit on Challenge

Direct:

💵 Accounts: $5K ($99) → $200K ($1099), Scaling up to $4M

🎯 Target: N/A

📉 Drawdown: 3% Daily Loss (EOD) | 7% Max Loss (Static)

💰 Profit Split: 80% to 90% (with add-on) | Fee Refund of 25% per payout for the first four

⚡Trading: ❌ News Trading | ❌ EAs | ❌ Weekend Holding | ❌Copy Trading in Funded Accounts from external sources

📅 Funded Stage: Scaling up to $4M | ✅ News Trading allowed | ✅4 months between increases | ✅No consistency Rule

⚙️ Challenge Parameters: 🔴 20% Consistency Rule |🟢 No Time Limit

Hola Prime Trading Rules by Strategy

Prop firms will often talk about the flexibility of their rules, but when you spend a bit of time looking deeper, you will often see some caveats and differences depending on the account type you choose. This is no different at Hola Prime.

Price

Hola Prime Account Prices and Cost Efficiency

How Do We Assess the Competitiveness of the Firm’s Costs?

True Capital per Dollar (TCPD)

A big mistake that a lot of prop traders make is thinking in terms of the nominal account size. The reality is that the actual account size should be thought of as the amount of drawdown you are allowed. The maximum drawdown is the number that matters, as if you lose more than it, you will lose the account. Unlike a live personal account, you do not have 100% of the capital to risk. In a prop firm, the total amount you are allowed to lose is rarely more than 10%.

For example, if you have a $100K account at a prop firm, and it has a 6% drawdown limit, you can only lose $6,000. In other words, it is a highly leveraged $6,000 account. When you take risks in the markets, make sure you are paying attention to this.

TCPD shows how much real usable trading capital you are getting for the price you pay to get the account. This is measured in terms of how many dollars you get for each dollar paid. The higher the TCPD, the better the deal is in this regard. A higher TCPD number means more usable capital per dollar spent.

Formula: TCPD = (Account Size × Max Drawdown %) ÷ Challenge Price

Hola Prime Cost Competitiveness vs. Industry Benchmark

Refund Policies

Traders can ask for a refund via email if they have not traded the account. However, once you start trading, the only way to get a fee refund is to earn it. This means with every payout you get 25% of your fee back, so you will need to reach 4 payouts to get a full refund. Unlike most other firms, Hola Prime does not refund the fees as soon as you pass.

Trading Conditions

Trading Test

I tested the $5K 1-Step Challenge, using the TradeLocker platform. I traded mainly the US and Asian sessions, finding execution fair and timely. The overall behavior of TradeLocker performed well, and I found the platform intuitive. There was no slippage that I saw during my tests, although I wasn’t trading news in particular, when you might see it.

The dashboard at Hola Prime is pretty straightforward, and I found all of the information I needed quickly. The drawdown levels from both a daily and overall perspective, profit amount, and economic calendar were all easily accessed. There are even competition tabs, leaderboards, and agreements that you can easily see.

The Hola Prime Academy in the dashboard is a series of videos designed to teach you how to use the various platforms, which is a bit misleading. There are Hola Prime Academy videos on the site that anyone can access, and they are done really well. I can only assume this is an oversight by the company, as access for its traders via the dashboard would simplify things.

TradeLocker, Match-Trader, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, DXtrade, and cTrader are all available at Hola Prime. The spreads are good, with the EUR/USD being 1 pip, the industry average. The test was good, and everything I tested functioned as I would expect.

Leverage

Hola Prime uses various types of leverage in the trading accounts, depending on the asset class and the type of account chosen. It is worth noting that Hola Prime states plainly that they can change leverage and margin requirements at their discretion.

Trading Fees

Hola Prime has both a raw spread and a commission-based fee structure. The spreads are generally industry average, as shown below. The spreads do vary at times, but the table below shows what I found during the US trading session. There are also swap charges or credits at the end of the session in some assets, as you would expect.

Spreads

The spreads I found depended on the time of day for some markets, but in general, I see Hola Prime offering the same kind of spreads that I have seen at many other places. For example, in the US, trading the EUR/USD pair is generally 1.0 pips, while the gold market is 1.5 pips.

Commissions

Hola Prime charges a flat $3 per side, per lot commission on forex trades, on top of the spread for gold and forex. Other commodities $1.50 per side, per lot. Indices and crypto have no commission.

This means that you pay these fees on top of the difference between ask and bid (the spread) and will be charged per side. This means that when you buy a full lot in the forex market, you pay the $3 commission in the forex market, as an example, and then when you sell, you pay another $3 commission. This makes a round trip cost you $6, plus whatever the spread is in that pair.

Swap Fees

Swap fees will be based on the liquidity provider, as is the case at all brokers or prop firms. This means that they are somewhat variable. For those looking for a swap-free account, you can have it, but it’s an extra 10% charge, something I have never seen.

Overall Trading Fees

The following table shows the fees for trading a full lot, without swap. Spreads can change, so this is to be used as a general guide more than anything else.

Prohibited Trading Styles

Tradable Instruments

There are 37 forex pairs available, 9 global indices, 3 energies, 2 metals, and 4 cryptocurrencies available to trade at Hola Prime. You can trade these assets from the many different platforms that Hola Prime offers.

Trading Platforms and Tools

Hola Prime offers 6 trading platforms. This allows traders to choose from some of the most well-known platforms in the CFD trading world, with each having its strong points. There will be a platform that suits your needs.

MetaTrader 5

MetaTrader 5 is offered to traders who aren’t based in the US. The platform is known for its intuitive display, excellent charting capabilities, ability to use Expert Advisors, and its customization. The ecosystem has a long history behind it and is the default choice for many traders worldwide.

MetaTrader 4

MetaTrader 4 has many of the same features as MetaTrader 5, including the charting, ability to use Expert Advisors, and ease of use. This is a platform that has been around for a few decades now, and many will choose it when they have an older Expert Advisor that isn’t written in the native MQL 5 language of MetaTrader 5.

Match-Trader

Match-Trader is a popular platform available. It has an easy-to-use navigation interface, and its intuitive design means that many of you will feel comfortable using it, even if you have never tried it in the past. Match-Trader has TradingView charts built into it, and many find that reason enough to choose it alone.

TradeLocker

TradeLocker is also offered at Hola Prime, with TradingView charts built in. The platform is very similar to Match-Trader, and most of the reason to choose this platform over Match-Trader is personal preference. That being said, although TradeLocker itself allows the building of “bots”, or Expert Advisors, from the “Bots Studio,” Hola Prime doesn’t.

cTrader

Hola Prime also offers cTrader, a popular platform known for its speed and ability to run automated strategies. cTrader is especially popular with short-term traders because of its speed. It has an intuitive interface and excellent charting for traders to work from. It also has the ability to send automated orders on the server directly, meaning it can be closed and the automated strategies can still be running.

DXtrade

DXtrade is also on offer at Hola Prime. DXtrade is often chosen by those looking to monitor a large number of trades, as it allows easy access to watching all positions. DXtrade is easy to use, and the charting is very similar to Match-Trader and TradeLocker. The platform is probably best thought of as one that investors or swing traders will enjoy.

Islamic (Swap-free) Account

Hola Prime does offer a swap-free account add-on. However, it should be noted that it is not free, and in fact, there is a 10% charge for this feature. For example, if you buy the 1-Step Prime $100,000 Challenge, the cost is $579. However, if you choose to buy the swap-free add-on, the additional fee of 10% will increase the total to $57.90 at the time of checkout.

Demo Account

There is no demo account available. However, you can access the trading conditions on a read-only demo account that the company makes available. This is used to see spreads and conditions more than anything else.

Inactivity

Any account inactive for 30 consecutive calendar days will be permanently suspended. A trading day at Hola Prime is defined as a day when you open at least one trade. Closing or modifying a trade doesn’t count as a trading day.

Funded Account Rules Overview

Once you pass the evaluation part of a challenge, you receive a funded account with the following rules and features, based on the account chosen:

The rules that Hola Prime uses are pretty consistent from the challenge to the funded stage, with the one big standout being news trading on the Pro 2-Step. This is allowed in the challenge phase, but not in the funded phase. There is also the re-entry rule and the 2% rule mentioned above that come into play. There is also a mandatory stop loss requirement that you need to place your SL 3 within 3 minutes of opening/closing your position. In general, though, the overall ruleset remains fairly stable and steady.

The Prime accounts are probably the more flexible, as weekend holding and news trading are allowed. The leverage is 1:50 on forex, but truthfully, that’s enough to do well. The 1-Step challenge has a 3% daily loss limit and a 6% total loss limit, which is fairly typical for the industry these days. The 2-Step Pro Challenge has a daily loss limit of 5% and a maximum overall loss limit of 10%, again, fairly typical. The Direct account is more restrictive, as is normally the case with direct funding accounts at prop firms.

Consistency Rule

There is a consistency rule at Hola Prime for their Direct Account, which, of course, is instant funding; this rule suggests that no one day can be more than 20% of your overall gains when you withdraw profits. If you find yourself with more than 20% of your profits on any single day, then you need to continue to trade and gain until that day is less than 20%.

However, this isn’t the only time you will see a consistency rule. If you are trading any of the other types of accounts and choose the “on-demand payout”, then your consistency level is 40%.

Scaling

The scaling at Hola Prime works over a period of 4 month. The requirements are as follows:

• You need to be profitable 2 out of the 4 months
• You need have have at least 10% profit over the whole 4 months
• You need to not breached any of the risk-management rules
• You need to have had at least 2 processed payments during these 4 months
• Your account balance needs to be positive

Once you have proven you have met all these requirements you can scale you account up to 4 million. Your first scaling will be 25% of your account and then because once you’ve reached the 2nd scaling stage you have ‘Alpha Prime Membership’ and can get 40% scaling (the normal 25% plus 15% for membership). Eventually you can get up to a 50% increase until you reach 4 million.

KYC (Know Your Customer)

The KYC process was done directly through the dashboard and was simple and fast. The process I used was scanning a QR code on my phone and then uploading a few images, in my case, a passport and a selfie. Other forms of ID can be a driver’s license or a permanent residence permit as well.

The total process just took a few minutes to become verified and eligible for future payouts.

Payouts

Hola Prime processes payouts via RiseWorks, bank wire, and cryptocurrencies. The process is simple and can be started via the Hola Prime dashboard. There is a payout tab, and a few clicks later, the process starts. Hola Prime boasts a 1-Hour payout timeline.

The payout scheme at Hola Prime is the same for each account type. Hola Prime will need you to do KYC paperwork before you trade in the sim funded account, and can request an interview before a payout in extreme circumstances.

Profit Split

At Hola Prime, there are multiple profit splits available to the trader. The default payout cycle is bi-weekly, and is 80%. However, there are other add-ons that you can get, with the on-demand, which offers 80% as well, but comes with the 40% consistency rule. The other option is the monthly payout, which allows for a 95% payout rate.

When you sign up for your challenge, you can choose your payout frequency. This will have an influence on how the payout situation behaves. The funded account needs a specific number of profitable days, which will start over each time you take a payout. The percentage of the payout is also based on the frequency you choose.

An example would be if you bought a 2-Step Prime account with bi-weekly payouts, you will need to have 3 profitable days, which means 0.5% of your initial balance. So, if you had a $100K account, you would need 3 days where you make more than $500. After 2 weeks, you take your payout, and then the clock starts over again. You will need to wait another two weeks and have another of those 3 profitable days. This choice allows you to receive 80% of the gains.

Payout Rules

Support

Customer Support Channels

Support Test

I tested all support channels at Hola Prime, with the AI chatbot being the first one. The chatbot gave me some basic answers, such as the availability of assets, the trading platforms available, and the usual basic questions. It handled it well and gave me the answers, or the link to find the answers, sometimes even both, depending on the question.

You have the ability to talk to a live person, but the chatbot is the first place to go. The live chat was helpful as well, and the AI chatbot allows you to jump to a real person anytime you want. The standard question I ask these agents when I test them is about the MetaTrader 5 platform and whether or not I can use it. (I am an American.) They were quick to say no, and to explain why. I found the responses quick and knowledgeable.

Discord is active, and the frequency of chat is relatively quick. That being said, this is more likely than not going to vary during the weekends, but at this point, from what I have seen, there are plenty of staff members and other traders that can help with any issues you have.

Education

Education is part of the appeal for Hola Prime as well, with a long series of videos on various assets, trading styles, and technical analysis principles. This “academy” is well thought out and pretty comprehensive for those looking to learn the basics and beyond when it comes to trading.

The instructors are all knowledgeable, and the depth of material was solid. The education area not only features plenty of CFD-related videos, but also features a futures-based list for their futures prop firm. Hola Prime has a long list of topics covered, and although the general quality of education at prop firms is somewhat basic, I would say that Hola Prime is a bit better than many of the other companies that I have looked at over the last several years.

The Bottom Line

Hola Prime is a firm that many people have been talking about for a couple of years. This is a prop firm that also offers futures trading and has its own brokerage for those who are looking to trade their own money. This suggests a lot of stability, but it is worth noting that they are fairly young. This is probably the biggest problem that many will have with them.

The platform choices will suit almost everyone, as the MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, Match-Trader, Dxtrade, and TradeLocker are all available. However, there is no TradingView choice if that’s important to you. The various challenges are also going to make sure that almost anyone who wants to will be able to get involved.

There are some limitations here. This includes some of the trading fees being high, but there are a few rules that I really don’t like. Many of them seem to be written in a vague way, allowing the potential for a denial of payout or termination of the account, pretty easily.

The trading conditions are fair if not a bit high, and I didn’t really see much in the way of an issue when it comes to spreads or even commissions. The consistency rule for a Direct account is a bit tough, and I really don’t like the news trading limitations on some of the accounts or the risk per trade rule. Make sure you know what is allowed before you press any button. The leverage changes depending on the account, but even the “lower leverage” of 1:50 on forex pairs is less than other firms but still acceptable in my opinion.

Hola Prime is probably better suited for swing traders, assuming you are using the Prime accounts. In fact, those are the ones I find interesting by a wide margin. The Direct Model is okay, but let’s be honest here: There aren’t many firms that offer great conditions with a direct account. I am not impressed by the Pro account, and I suspect it is only a matter of time before it goes away.