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Prohibited Trading Practices
Hola Prime strictly prohibits abusive or exploitative trading strategies such as, but not limited to, gambling or speculative behavior, quick strike methods, high frequency trading, copy trading across accounts, group hedging, arbitrage, tick scalping, account rolling, one-sided betting, hyperactivity, exploiting server errors, guaranteeing profits during low liquidity periods, or account and device sharing. Such practices distort markets, bypass fair rules, or reflect unsustainable trading behavior, and violations may result in account termination, denial of rewards, or permanent bans.
What happens if you break these rules
Hola Prime enforces calculated measures to prevent and address prohibited trading practices. Depending on the nature and severity of the violation, consequences may include a warning, restrictions on the number of trades or lot sizes, additional risk limits, reduced daily or maximum loss limits, nullification of the effects of trades that violate the rules, or a complete and permanent account ban. Repeated violations may also result in the trader being placed in the Prime Consistency Program.
Hola Prime strictly prohibits any kind of exploitation of the platform. Traders should read all Terms and conditions carefully before using our platform. The conditions below apply to all accounts, whether in the challenge or Hola Prime phases.
1. Hyperactivity/Excessive Trading
Hyperactivity in trading refers to an unusually high volume of activity where a trader places and executes trades rapidly and in quick succession. It also extends to constant adjustments of existing orders, including repeated changes to stop-loss, take-profit, or limit order instructions.
2. Account/Device Sharing
- Account sharing, third-party account management, or allowing another person to trade the account is strictly prohibited.
- Trading from another trader’s device, sharing laptops, desktops, tablets, or mobile phones with other traders, or accessing a Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account from a device associated with another participant is strictly prohibited.
- Using a VPN to circumvent geographical restrictions or disguise access from a restricted country or region is strictly prohibited.
- Manual trading through a VPS, or using VPS infrastructure for account sharing, third-party account management, coordinated trading, or circumvention of Hola Prime’s rules is strictly prohibited.
- Multiple registrations, duplicate participation, or device-sharing is strictly prohibited, and accessing an account from a restricted country or region is also strictly prohibited.
- Accessing the account or platform from a restricted country or region, or using a VPN that routes through a restricted country, is strictly prohibited and will lead to account termination.
For more details, click here.
3. Gambling/Speculative Trading
Trading practices that demonstrate excessive, concentrated, or unsustainable risk-taking and resemble gambling rather than a structured and repeatable trading strategy are prohibited.
Such activity may include, but is not limited to:
- Excessive Risk-Taking: Taking disproportionately large positions or exposure relative to the trader's usual trading activity or the account's permitted loss limits.
- Concentrated Exposure: Placing substantial reliance on a single trade, trade idea, instrument, market event, or directional market movement. Generating a material portion of the account's overall profits from a single trade, a small number of trades, or an isolated market outcome, particularly where such profits are inconsistent with the trader's broader trading activity.
- Inconsistent Trading Behaviour: Significant or unexplained deviations in position size, leverage, trade frequency, or risk-taking compared with the trader's normal trading pattern.
Where the account's overall profitability is materially dependent on concentrated, excessive, or non-repeatable trading outcomes rather than a reasonably sustainable trading approach, such activity may be classified as Gambling / Speculative Trading.
3.1 Grid Trading:
Setting up several buy and sell orders at various price points both above and below the current market price, to take advantage of price changes is prohibited. When the market rises and falls, hitting different price points, it raises risk because numerous losses can occur at once from a significant market movement in one direction. Hence, it is prohibited to use this tactic.
For instance if a trader sets several buy orders at $150, $155, and $160 and multiple sell orders at $170, $175, and $180. The trader makes profit if the market moves between these levels. However, all of the buy orders will lose equity if the market falls sharply below $150, resulting in huge losses.
3.2 Excessive use of margin:
Hola Prime expects traders to maintain responsible use of leverage and margin. Trading activity involving excessive margin usage or overleveraging may be considered a prohibited trading practice.
Excessive margin usage or overleveraging may include:
- Repeatedly utilizing disproportionately high levels of available margin relative to the account size;
- Maintaining unusually high margin utilization across one or multiple open positions;
- Creating excessive leveraged exposure through multiple positions in the same or correlated instruments; or
- Repeatedly increasing position sizes or opening additional positions in a manner that results in excessive overall margin utilization.
Enforcement
Repeated or Material Violation: Where excessive margin usage or overleveraging is repeated or considered material, Hola Prime may impose appropriate risk restrictions on the account, including reduced leverage, maximum margin or exposure limits, adjustment of profits, or other trading restrictions in accordance with its Terms and Conditions.
3.3 Strategies which are not reasonably replicable in real markets:
It is prohibited to engage in any practices which are not reasonably replicable on actual market (such strategy is not in line with risk management rules that a reasonable trader would apply when trading with their own money):
(i) opening substantially larger position sizes compared to your other trades, whether on this or any other account of the trader;
(ii) opening substantially smaller or larger number of positions compared to your other trades, whether on this or any other account of the trader.
Performing gap trading (high risk practice which carries potential unfavourable outcomes if performed in real market conditions in times of increased volatility) by opening trade(s);
(i) when major global news, macroeconomic event or corporate reports or earnings, that might affect the relevant financial markets are scheduled; or
(ii) hours or less before a relevant financial market is closed for 2 hours or longer.
3.4 Inconsistent Trading Practices:
To ensure consistency between the evaluation and funded stages, traders must maintain a broadly consistent trading methodology throughout the lifecycle of their account. Accordingly:
- Using an Expert Advisor (EA), algorithm, or trading bot to complete or pass a Challenge Account and subsequently switching to manual trading on the corresponding Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account or vice versa is strictly prohibited.
- Traders are expected to maintain a consistent trading methodology throughout both the Challenge and Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) stages. Accordingly, utilizing specific asset classes, symbol categories, margin utilization levels, or risk profiles during the Challenge phase, and then materially deviating from that approach by trading entirely different asset classes or symbol categories, or by significantly increasing margin utilization or overall risk exposure on the corresponding Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account, is strictly prohibited.
The strategy used to pass the Challenge is considered your proven trading strategy and forms the basis of your Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account. Traders are expected to maintain consistency by continuing to use the same overall approach used in evaluation account. Material changes to the proven strategy may result in account review, suspension, or Performance Reward denial.
4. One-Sided Betting
One-sided betting refers to a trading approach where one repeatedly takes positions in only one direction, either buy or sell, without proper market evaluation or analysis. At Hola Prime, this practice is prohibited because it is highly speculative and exposes traders to unnecessary risk.
Example: A trader may open multiple small trades or a single large trade across one or several assets, all positioned on the same side. This lack of balance or diversification leaves them highly exposed, and a sudden adverse price move can trigger significant losses.
5. Arbitrage trading
It is prohibited to take advantage of discrepancies in price feed within a platform, due to technical glitch, or price differences or delays across several marketplaces or platforms, in order to make gains without taking any risks or fair market analysis as it is an unethical practice and works against fair market conditions.
6. Using Expert Advisors (EAs) and Algorithms
Third-party Expert Advisors (EAs), trading bots, algorithms, and automated trading systems are permitted only on MT5 accounts where the EA usage add on has been purchased. EAs are not permitted on cTrader, Match-Trader, TradeLocker, or on Sim. Funded Accounts issued under the Direct Model, unless expressly permitted for a specific product.
EAs must comply with all Hola Prime Trading Rules, and traders must customize their EA settings so their trading activity remains sufficiently distinct from that of other traders.
EAs and automated systems must not be used to:
- Copy trades based on another person’s signals or trading activity
- Perform tick scalping, latency arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, or hedge arbitrage
- Engage in HFT or use emulators/emulator-based systems
- Engage in any other prohibited trading activity
Traders must declare the strategy used by their EA when their funded account is issued and must notify Hola Prime of any material change to the EA or its strategy.
Accounts using identical or highly similar EA strategies or configurations may be grouped and subject to a combined maximum capital allocation. Hola Prime may also request EA details, configuration, logic, or source code for review and may deny approval of Hola prime account, rebalance existing Hola Prime account, or terminate related accounts where necessary.
Any EA found engaging in prohibited activity may result in account cancellation and permanent ban, with associated fees or payments being non-refundable.
Third-party position sizers and risk calculators are permitted only as analytical tools and must not automatically execute trades or modify SL, TP, position size, or other order parameters.
7. Copy Trading
Copy trading is permitted between Hola Prime accounts only where all participating accounts are registered to and owned by the same individual. There are no restrictions on copy trading between Challenge Accounts. For Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Accounts, copy trading is restricted to a maximum of one Master Account and one Copier Account. For detailed information, click here.
Copying trades from accounts held with other proprietary trading firms to Hola Prime accounts is strictly prohibited. Any activity exceeding the permitted limits will constitute a violation of the applicable trading rules and may result in a breach of the relevant account(s). This policy applies to all accounts purchased on or after 15 September 2026.
In addition, the following activities are also prohibited:
It will be deemed copy trading and a breach of our conditions if a sizable portion of a trader's trades are identical to those of one or more traders based on the following — opening price, closing price, lot size, lot ratio, symbols, etc. This could also indicate group trading, signal services, passing services, or any other activity that replicates trading strategies, which are not allowed. In such a scenario, all associated accounts will be immediately terminated.
8. Hedging or executing reverse trades
It is allowed to hedge or open buy or sell trade in the same instrument inside the same trading account. However, it is prohibited to open buy and sell trades in the same instrument across many accounts or in a group.
For Instance: It is prohibited to hedge a trade over two accounts by buying one lot of EUR/USD on Account-1 and selling one lot of EUR/USD on Account-2 at the same time by the same trader.
9. Tick Scalping or High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
It is not allowed to use sophisticated expert advisers, algorithms, and fast communication networks to profit from small price fluctuations by executing a high volume of trades within a short time frame because of its potential for market manipulation and disruptive trading activities.
By making trades extremely quickly, these algorithms are able to profit from even the slightest price swings, giving them an unfair edge over other traders. These algorithms strain market liquidity by the quick influx of orders and subsequent cancellations. Owing to this several traders might not get their trades executed at fair pricing.
10. News Trading
News trading refers to opening, closing, or modifying trades 5 minutes before or after the scheduled High Impact economic news events, which can cause significant market volatility.
The rules vary depending on your account type and whether you are in the Challenge or Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) stage.
News Trading Rules by Account Type
| Account Type | Challenge Phase | Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account |
|---|---|---|
| Direct Account | N/A | Restricted during High Impact news (5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the news release). |
| 2-Step Pro Account | Allowed | Restricted during High Impact news (5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the news release). |
| Prime Accounts (1-Step & 2-Step) |
Allowed | Allowed |
For detailed explanation including examples and affected instruments, click here
11. Weekend Holding
Weekend holding refers to keeping trades open after the market closes on Friday.
The rules vary depending on your account type and whether you are in the Challenge or Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) stage.
Weekend Holding Rules by Account Type
| Account Type | Challenge Phase | Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account |
|---|---|---|
| Direct Account | Not Allowed | Not allowed. All trades must be closed before 15:45 EST on Friday. Any open trades will be automatically closed, and the account will be terminated. |
| 2-Step Pro Account | Allowed | Not allowed. All trades must be closed before 15:45 EST on Friday. Any open trades will be automatically closed, and the account will be temporarily disabled till following Monday. |
| Prime Accounts (1-Step & 2-Step) |
Allowed | Allowed. |
For detailed explanation including examples and FAQs, click here.
Any activity that, in our reasonable assessment, is designed to circumvent or bypass the intent of these trading policies may be classified as a prohibited trading practice, regardless of whether individual rules or limits have been technically observed.
If our Risk Management Team detects that a trader's trading constitutes Prohibited Trading practices, their participation in the program will be terminated and will result in forfeiture of any accrued trader payout, and fees paid to the Company.
Before any Trader shall receive a Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account, the trading activity of the Trader under these Terms and Conditions shall be reviewed by the Prop Firm's Risk Management Team to determine whether such trading activity constitutes Prohibited Trading. In the case of Prohibited Trading, the Trader shall not receive a Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Account.