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$100K

$100K

Starts at 80%; scales to 100%

New: Phase 1 10%, Phase 2 5%; Classic: Phase 1 8%, Phase 2 5%; funded target 10%

10% in one phase, with all trades closed; no time limit

6% trailing the highest closed balance; locks at the starting balance once the balance reaches +6%

3% of the starting balance, balance-based: the floor is the 5 PM ET end-of-day balance minus 3%, and equity is checked against it in real time

3 profitable days per evaluation phase; 3 profitable days before withdrawal/scaling

3% daily and the same 6% trailing floor, locking at the starting balance

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None

Holding open trades over high-impact news is allowed · No order execution 2 minutes prior, after or within to high-impact news in the related currency or indexfirm-level

Not allowed: no trades or order fills, including stop loss and take profit, from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after red-folder news on any pair, unless the News Trading add-on is bought

Holding open trades over high-impact news is allowed · No order execution 2 minutes prior, after or within to high-impact news in the related currency or indexfirm-level

Not allowed: no trades or order fills, including stop loss and take profit, from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after red-folder news on any pair, unless the News Trading add-on is bought

$500,000

$600,000 in funded accounts per trader across all programs, Bolt included; scaling up to $1.5M overall (the program pages say $1M)

Scales after each 10% funded target, up to $500,000

Classic/New is a model-type variant axis. The materially different separate $100K 2-Step plan is not flattened into this standard model.

Every 2 weeks

Every 14 days from the first funded trade (weekly with the +25% add-on), with 3 profitable days in each cycle

14 days after funded activation; $150 minimum profit

14 days, 3 profitable days, $100 minimum

14

3 profitable days per payout cycle: each closes 0.5%+ up on the day's opening balance while above the starting balance

Typically up to 3 business days after approval

Processed within 3 business days, then 24–48 hours to arrive (bank transfers up to 5 business days)

Program page advertises a funded-stage refund; general terms allow refunds within 14 days only before trading activity

Refundable within 14 days of purchase if the account has not been traded. Otherwise the fee is refunded with the 3rd payout, on the challenges and on Bolt. A $20 admin fee may be withheld from any refund.

Allowed; index positions incur high swaps

Allowed in the challenge and funded stages

Allowed

Allowed on every account

Ordinary hedging is allowed; hedge arbitrage and cross-account or cross-operator offsets are prohibited

Allowed within one account. Hedging or opposite positions across accounts, or with other users, is prohibited.

External, other-trader and coordinated copying are prohibited; current own-account guidance conflicts

Only between your own ThinkCapital accounts, with ThinkCapital as the master account. Copying other prop or personal accounts, other traders or signal services is prohibited.

Allowed with visible stop-loss and owned source code; no copying, tick scalping, HFT, latency/reverse/hedge arbitrage, or emulators

Allowed with written approval from the risk team (email support first), for ThinkTrader-compatible tools only: risk or trade managers and bots. ThinkTrader has no MT5-style EAs.

No execution from 2 minutes before through 2 minutes after high-impact news; 30-day evaluation and 60-day funded inactivity limits

Prohibited: copying other traders, signal services or account management (copiers only between your own ThinkCapital accounts), grid or reverse trading, hedging or opposite positions across accounts or with other users, latency arbitrage, HFT, delayed or external data feeds, gap trading within 15 minutes of a market closing or reopening around scheduled events, and gambling-style risk (sustained 60–70%+ margin use, martingale, all-in trades, account rolling, bursts of sub-60-second scalps). VPN and VPS access is not allowed except ForexVPS. 30 days without a trade breaches the account.

Approximately $4 per lot; no exact program-specific schedule published