HyroTrader Rules

HyroTrader's rules come down to two loss limits, a profit target, a minimum number of trading days, and a profit distribution rule that stops one big day or one big trade from doing all the work. Everything below applies to the evaluation unless it says funded. Every account is simulated, a demo account trading real exchange prices, and the limits are percentages of your starting balance, so the dollar amounts scale with the size you pick.

Daily Loss Limit

It's static. At 00:00 UTC HyroTrader records your equity, which is your balance plus open positions, with fees included. Your floor for the day is that equity minus a fixed percentage of your initial balance: 3% on Zero-Step, 4% on One-Step and 5% on Two-Step. The floor doesn't move up when you're in profit, so you can let winners run without tightening your own limit. On a $100K One-Step account that starts the day at $102,000, the floor is $98,000 even if you climb to $105,000. The same limit applies in every phase, including the funded account.

Max Loss

The total loss limit is 5% of your initial balance on Zero-Step, 6% on One-Step and 10% on Two-Step. On a $5K One-Step account that's $300. Both limits are active at all times, so whichever one you hit first ends the account.

Profit Target and Minimum Trading Days

A trading day only counts if you close at least one trade worth at least 5% of your initial balance, and that trade's result moved at least 1% of its own value, up or down, before fees. The trade counts on the day it closes, not the day it opens. Hitting the target early doesn't let you skip the minimum days. Profit from trades that don't qualify as a trading day still counts toward the target.

Profit Distribution Rule

This is the rule to understand before you buy. On One-Step and Two-Step, no single trading day can count for more than 40% of your profit target during the evaluation. On Zero-Step, no single trade can count for more than 50% of the target. Anything above the cap stays in your account but doesn't count toward the target, and losing days and losing trades always count in full. If your target is $500 and you make $320 on day one, only $200 of it counts. Funded accounts don't have this rule.

What's Allowed

A stop loss isn't required. News trading is allowed, as long as your strategy isn't built only around news. You can hold positions overnight and over weekends. There's no cap on how many positions you open, but your losses add up against the daily limit, so two trades that each risk 3% can breach a 5% day on their own. Hedging inside a single account is allowed if the platform supports it.

What's Prohibited

Martingale is banned. So is hedging one challenge against another by opening opposite positions on two accounts, and if it's found the accounts are restricted immediately with no refund and the trader is banned.

On a Bybit challenge you also can't request extra demo funds, change the USDT balance, delete or alter the API key, trade spot in a futures challenge, trade EUR/USD, trade options or USDC pairs, or mix spot and margin on the same account. Breaking these can fail or end the account.

Low-cap altcoins are capped. An asset counts as low-cap if its market cap is under $100 million or it's a newly listed coin in Bybit's Innovation Zone. Your combined exposure to them can't go over 5% of your initial balance, leverage included. If it does, you're moved to a new challenge and only 40% of the profit from those trades counts toward the target.

Funded Account Rules

The daily loss and max loss limits carry over unchanged. Funded accounts add two exposure limits. Total margin across your open positions can't pass 25% of your initial balance, so $2,500 on a $10K account. The total notional value of all open positions can't pass 2x your initial balance, so $20,000 on a $10K account. Each limit gets one formal warning. The next breach of that limit fails the funded stage.

There's also an inactivity rule. If you don't trade at least once every 30 days the account fails. The 30 days restart with each trade, each payout and each reactivation.

Leverage and Platforms

You choose your own leverage. On Bybit most pairs allow 50x to 100x. On HyroTrader's own platform it goes to 100x or more depending on the pair. On BloFin it goes up to 150x on BTC and ETH. You can trade through your own Bybit or BloFin demo account connected by API, through HyroTrader's own terminal with no API setup, or through the Tealstreet and Tiger terminals. Tealstreet and Tiger aren't available to traders in the United States or in countries where Bybit is restricted, and using a VPN to get around that isn't allowed.

Account Limits

You can hold up to $400,000 across evaluation challenges and up to $200,000 across funded accounts.

Account Reviews

HyroTrader reviews accounts manually and looks for gambling or all-or-nothing behavior. In extreme cases it can issue a warning, remove profits, adjust a payout, temporarily reduce your profit split, reject a withdrawal request or terminate the account.

Fees

On One-Step and Two-Step you pay a refundable challenge deposit, and it's returned with your first payout. On Zero-Step you pay a fee that isn't refundable once the challenge is activated. HyroTrader doesn't charge withdrawal fees.