Hola Prime Drops Its 60% Profit Concentration Trigger, 70% Margin Cap and Three Minute Stop Loss Deadline
Hola Prime has removed three of its numeric trading restrictions: the 60% profit concentration trigger, the 70% maximum margin utilisation ceiling, and the three minute deadline for attaching a stop loss after entering a position. The change is reported to apply to new and existing accounts across Hola Prime‘s forex programs. For funded traders the practical effect is narrow but real: three of the ways an account could be flagged after a profitable run have been taken off the table, and the rule that replaced none of them, a mandatory stop loss on every trade, stays exactly where it was.
What Was Removed and What Each Rule Used to Do
The three rules sat at different points in a trade’s life, which is why removing them together matters more than any one of them on its own.
The profit concentration trigger looked backwards at a finished account. If a single trade or a single trading day produced more than 60% of the total profit on the account, the account was flagged. This is the family of rule usually marketed as a consistency requirement, and it is the reason traders who catch one clean move on a news day sometimes find the payout that follows is the problem rather than the reward.
The 70% margin ceiling looked at the account in real time. It capped how much of the available margin a trader could have committed at once, which in practice limited position count and position size regardless of whether the risk on each individual trade was within the rules.
The three minute stop loss deadline looked at a single trade at the moment of entry. A stop loss had to be attached within three minutes of opening the position. Traders who build into a position, or who set a stop only after the first candle closes, were exposed to a breach on timing alone even when a stop was eventually placed.
What Hola Prime’s Own Rules Page Shows Now
JoinProp checked the firm’s published forex trading rules against the report. Hola Prime’s rules page currently lists no profit concentration percentage, no maximum margin utilisation percentage and no time limit for placing a stop loss. What it does still list is a stop loss requirement with no clock attached: a stop loss is mandatory on every trade, and a trade carrying no stop loss is treated as having infinite risk. That is consistent with the reported change, which removed the deadline rather than the obligation.
The rest of the published rule set is unchanged. The profit target is 10% of the initial balance with a minimum of two trading days and no time limit on the evaluation. The daily loss limit is 3% of the previous day’s closing balance, measured from the initial balance on day one. The maximum loss limit is 6% of the initial balance. Maximum risk per trade is 2% of the initial balance, with positions that overlap in time counted as one trade idea and a re-entry in the same asset and direction inside ten minutes counted as the same idea. Accounts need at least one trade every 30 calendar days. News trading, overnight holding and weekend holding are all permitted.
Leverage on the forex side is listed as 50:1 on major pairs, 10:1 on indices and metals, 5:1 on exotics, 2:1 on commodities and 1:1 on crypto, with the Pro Challenge running at 100:1. Payout options range from an 80% split on the bi-weekly cycle to 95% on the monthly cycle, with the direct plan paying up to 90% bi-weekly.
The Discretionary Language That Did Not Go Away
This is the part that deserves the most attention, and it is the reason JoinProp would not describe the update as a removal of the underlying policy. Hola Prime’s prohibited trading practices page still describes concentrated exposure and heavy margin use as grounds for review, just without numbers attached. Gambling style trading is defined to include concentrated exposure and inconsistent behaviour. Excessive margin use is described as repeatedly committing disproportionately high levels of available margin and maintaining unusually high margin utilisation.
A numeric threshold is a rule a trader can plan around. A qualitative description is a judgement call made after the fact by someone at the firm. Removing 60% and 70% from the rules page takes away two hard breach lines, and it also takes away the two clearest places a trader could point to and say the account was inside the stated limits. Traders on Hola Prime accounts should read the prohibited practices page as the live constraint now, not the trading objectives page.
That is not unique to Hola Prime. It is how most of the industry words its risk policy, and it is why the evaluation rules that actually decide whether an account passes are usually spread across three or four documents rather than stated in one place.
What Has Not Been Confirmed
Hola Prime has not, as far as JoinProp could find, published a dated changelog entry or an announcement post setting out these three removals. The evidence that the rules are gone is their absence from the firm’s current published rules, which is strong but is not the same as the firm confirming what changed and when.
Three things are therefore unconfirmed. First, the effective date. Traders whose accounts were flagged under any of the three rules shortly before the update have no published cut off to point to. Second, whether the removals apply to the futures programs or only to forex. The forex rules page is where the change is visible, and Hola Prime runs a separate futures rule set. Third, whether any of the three rules survive inside specific add-ons or payout structures, particularly the on-demand payout route, which carries its own consistency score requirement that is described separately from the trading objectives.
Traders holding a live account should confirm all three points with Hola Prime support before changing how they size or time a trade. JoinProp will update this story if the firm publishes a dated notice.
What This Means for the Broader Prop Industry
Two years ago the competitive move in prop trading was to add rules. Consistency triggers, margin ceilings and stop loss timing requirements all arrived as risk controls, and firms advertised them as proof of seriousness. The move now runs the other way. Firms are stripping numeric restrictions out of the shop window because traders have learned to read a rules page before buying, and a page with fewer thresholds sells better than one with more.
The question for traders is whether the risk control actually left the business or simply moved. In this case the specific numbers are gone from the trading objectives while the broader discretion to review an account for concentrated exposure and heavy margin use remains in the prohibited practices document. That is a genuine improvement in clarity at entry and a genuine loss of certainty at payout. Both things are true at once.
The useful habit, whichever firm a trader is comparing, is to read the prohibited practices page before the rules page, because that is where the discretion lives, and to treat the absence of a number as a question rather than an answer. A firm that removes a threshold and publishes nothing about what replaced it is asking to be taken on trust. Some deserve it. Working out which is the entire job of choosing a firm on a framework rather than on a discount code, and it is why the same firm can be the right answer for one strategy and the wrong one for another, as the side by side comparison of rules, costs and payouts across the larger firms tends to show.
For traders whose edge depends on a small number of large winners, the removal of a 60% concentration trigger is the single most valuable thing a firm can do. For traders running many small positions, the margin ceiling mattered more. Neither group should read this as an invitation to abandon the rules that remain, and the two that remain hardest are unchanged: 3% daily, 6% total, measured exactly as the firm defines them rather than as the platform displays them. Those definitions are covered in JoinProp’s breakdown of daily versus total drawdown.
