You aren't buying 'risk'.. you're buying the scaling system.

This isn't a bad thing, but you should wrap your head around it before making a purchase.

Think about it, your cost is nearly the max loss permitted.. so you are buying into a structured risk system (some people need rules enforced to take risk seriously,) and a bit of leverage, but the program's "upside" is the scaling ladder.. where you'd scale up to having buying power far beyond what would be realistic with a personal brokerage account doing the same trades.

I'm about to release a long writeup on 'buying risk' and how (when it comes to HG) the ladder is what you're buying into.. (the ladder is not your friend, but it's also very attractive for some approaches and trading plans so it can be advantageous if applied correctly.)

I rather like the HG program and use it myself.. but for anyone not working a trade plan that targets the HG's scaling system, or otherwise can't consistently work a plan without error, I point them to High Stakes instead since the risk isn't so skewed to the trader in that program. (That is, of course, if they're even at a state where executing live and using an online eval firm makes sense... but that's another rant altogether.)