Hola Prime at Prop Firm Expo London 2026: What Traders Should Know

Most prop firms specialise. They run a CFD evaluation business or a futures evaluation business, and the structure of their products reflects which side they chose. Hola Prime is one of the firms in the space that runs both sides as full operations: a complete CFD lineup with five distinct challenge structures, and a separate futures operation with its own brokers, platforms, and rule adaptations. For traders who already have an asset-class preference, that means Hola Prime can be evaluated as a CFD firm or a futures firm without compromise on either side.

This piece focuses on the CFD side, where most of Hola Prime's product depth sits. The futures side runs on its own architecture and is worth a separate look for traders evaluating it on its own merits.

Hola Prime will appear at Prop Firm Expo London 2026 on June 27 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre as a Gold Sponsor. For traders who want to understand the firm's product range and how its rule framework actually works, the event is a useful setting to do that work in person.

For attendees, Gold-level access means a few different ways to engage with the firm, a booth on the floor, a secondary stage session, and supporting content across Prop Firm Match and Prop Firm Expo channels. That gives a trader more than one setting in which to test what the team says, rather than relying on a single conversation.

Hola Prime is a Hong Kong-based prop firm led by CEO Somesh Kapuria. The firm was founded in August 2024 and has been operating for just over a year, which makes it one of the newer entrants in the prop space.

On the CFD side, the trading environment runs through Hola Prime Markets as the broker, with cTrader, DXTrade, Match Trader, MT4, MT5, and TradeLocker available as platforms. Asset coverage includes FX, metals, indices, other commodities, and crypto. Commissions are $3 per lot per side on FX and gold, $1.50 per lot per side on other metals and other commodities, and zero commission on indices and crypto. Payouts are processed through bank wire transfer, crypto, and Riseworks.

Where most CFD prop firms offer one or two evaluation models with cosmetic variations, Hola Prime offers five structurally different routes. Each is built for a different kind of trader, and the choice between them is what actually defines a trader's relationship with the firm.

One Challenge is the firm's single-phase evaluation route. It runs a 7% profit target with intraday trailing drawdown, 30:1 leverage, and up to 95% rewards. Once a trader is funded, the trailing drawdown locks at the starting balance after 7% profit is reached. There is no minimum trading day count on the evaluation itself.

1-Step Prime is a one-step challenge with two trading days minimum on evaluation, a 10% profit target, 3% daily loss limit, 6% maximum overall loss, and 30:1 leverage. News trading and weekend holding are allowed at both evaluation and funded stages.

2-Step Prime runs a two-phase evaluation with 8% and 5% profit targets across Phase 1 and Phase 2, 5% daily loss, 10% maximum loss, and 30:1 leverage. Minimum trading days are three per phase. Like 1-Step Prime, news trading and weekend holding are allowed throughout.

2-Step Pro is the firm's higher-leverage two-phase route, running 100:1 leverage with the same 8% and 5% profit targets and 10% maximum loss. The trade-offs are real: news trading and weekend holding are allowed in the challenge but restricted in the funded stage, and a max exposure limit applies (10 lots on the $25K up to 80 lots on the $200K).

Direct (Instant Funding) is the firm's no-evaluation route. The trader is funded immediately, with a 7% end-of-day trailing drawdown, 3% daily loss, 50:1 leverage, up to 90% rewards, and a 20% consistency rule. News trading and weekend holding are not allowed. EAs are prohibited on this account type.

All five routes can scale beyond their initial account size. Hola Prime offers a scaling programme that runs in four-month cycles and can take a trader up to $4M in account size over time, with conditions including at least 10% net simulated profit, two payouts, and at least two profitable months within each cycle.

Hola Prime publishes one of the more detailed rule frameworks in the prop space. Three rules in particular are worth understanding before evaluation, because they shape how the firm wants trades to be sized and structured.

The 2% risk-per-trade-idea rule on funded and Direct accounts. Maximum risk per trade idea is capped at 2% of the initial balance. The rule explicitly covers single trades, layered or split positions in the same direction on correlated assets within an overlapping time window, and re-entries in the same direction on the same asset within 10 minutes of closing. Together, these are treated as one trade idea. Breach is a hard breach and the account is terminated.

The 3-minute stop-loss requirement. Traders must place a stop-loss within 3 minutes of opening a position, or before closing it, whichever happens first. This defines the risk limit and is what makes the 2% rule enforceable in practice.

The drawdown lock at 7%. On One Challenge and Direct accounts, once a trader reaches 7% profit, the trailing maximum drawdown locks at the starting balance and stops trailing upward. That is a meaningful protection once a trader is in profit, and it changes how the rule behaves once early gains are locked in.

A separate detail worth flagging: Hola Prime operates a daily drawdown breach payout protection policy. If the daily loss limit is breached but the account remains profitable, the trader may still receive 100% of their reward and fee reimbursement, provided no single trade exceeded 1% of the initial balance in profit or loss and all trades had a stop loss in place. Worth asking the team to walk through what that looks like in practice.

Hola Prime's futures operation runs as its own product, listed separately on Prop Firm Match. It supports DX Futures, NinjaTrader, and Tradovate, with two account structures (1-Step Prime and Direct Account), and the risk-per-trade-idea rule adapts to the platform: 1% on DX Futures and 2% on Tradovate and NinjaTrader. For traders evaluating Hola Prime as a futures firm rather than a CFD firm, the conversation worth having at the booth is which side fits the way they trade. There are similarities, but the platforms and rule specifics differ enough that the two should be assessed independently.

The starting question on the CFD side is which of the five routes matches your trading style.

If you want a single-phase evaluation with up to 95% rewards and a simple structure, One Challenge is the route to discuss. The questions worth raising are around the intraday trailing drawdown and how the 7% drawdown lock kicks in for a trader who tends to make most of their gains early.

If you prefer a one-step challenge with the standard structure of a profit target, daily loss limit, and maximum drawdown, 1-Step Prime is the conversation. Worth asking the team about pace expectations, the 10% profit target combined with 3% daily and 6% overall loss limits creates a specific risk profile.

If you want a two-step evaluation, the question is between 2-Step Prime at 30:1 leverage and 2-Step Pro at 100:1 leverage. The higher leverage on Pro comes with funded-stage restrictions on news and weekend holding plus the lot-based exposure cap, so the right answer depends on whether you trade through news and overnight.

If you want to skip evaluation entirely, Direct (Instant Funding) is the route, with the 20% consistency rule and the EA prohibition as the trade-offs.

Across all routes, the rule framework is worth understanding specifically. The 2% risk-per-trade-idea rule, the 10-minute re-entry interpretation, and the stop-loss placement requirement together shape how the firm expects positions to be managed. Worth raising directly if your strategy involves layered entries, fast re-entries, or trades that hold open for short windows before stop placement.

• Which of the five CFD routes is best suited to my style?
• The 2% risk-per-trade-idea rule treats layered positions and 10-minute re-entries as a single trade. How does that affect typical multi-entry strategies in practice?
• On Direct accounts, the 20% consistency rule applies. What does that look like for a trader making most of their week on one or two strong days?
• What does the drawdown lock at 7% profit change about how active traders pace their trading?
• The daily drawdown breach payout protection policy preserves rewards under specific conditions. What does the team typically see as the most common trigger?
• How does the scaling programme work in practice, and how long does a realistic path to higher account sizes take?
• For a trader considering both CFD and futures, which side do you generally recommend evaluating first?

Use the secondary stage session and supporting content to test how clearly Hola Prime explains its product range. With five CFD routes plus a separate futures operation, the firm has more product surface to articulate than most. The useful signal is whether the team can speak to who each route is built for, rather than presenting the lineup as interchangeable options.

Use booth time to narrow the decision around your own trading. Bring your platform preference, asset focus, account-size range, and trading style. If you already know whether you lean toward single-phase, two-phase, or instant funding, this is where Hola Prime should be able to give you a more precise answer than a static listing can provide.

Hola Prime will appear at Prop Firm Expo London 2026 on June 27 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre as a Gold Sponsor. For attendees comparing prop firms, that is a useful opportunity to evaluate one of the few firms that runs full CFD and futures operations side by side, and to test how its rule framework maps to the way you actually trade.

If Hola Prime is already on your shortlist, use the expo to get precise. Focus on which of the five CFD routes (or the futures equivalent) fits your trading, how the risk-per-trade-idea rule shapes position sizing in practice, and what the scaling programme looks like over a realistic timeframe. That is a stronger way to use Gold-level access than relying on visibility alone.

To prepare before the event, you can review Hola Prime's full profile, including broker details, supported platforms, payout structures, and verified trader reviews, on the Hola Prime page on Prop Firm Match. If you want to compare current pricing and discount codes before you arrive, the latest Hola Prime offers are listed alongside the firm's challenge lineup. Traders evaluating the futures side can find the separate listing at Hola Prime Futures on Prop Firm Match.