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Headquarters

Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

14 Haroshet st, Raanaa, Israel

CEO

Jelle Dijkstra

Saul Lokier

Country

United Arab Emirates

Israel

Foundation

2023

2016

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Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Donetsk, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Kherson, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luhansk, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen, Zaporizhzhia
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities
Indices, Currencies, Metals, Agriculture, Energies
Platforms
NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Tradingview
BlackArrow
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto
Rise, Crypto, Transfer
Live Account
Limited

Prime Program requires Risk approval: eligible after 5 payouts on one account (the SIM account maximum), 10 across accounts, or 20% profit on one account. Only accounts with at least one payout move to Live. Choose Live or a cash-out of 50% of MLL per eligible account within 24 hours; no answer means Live. SIM accounts close and evaluations pause. Cash-out or a Live breach: 21 days without new purchases or resuming evaluations. Live starts at $0 with real capital, EOD drawdown, 80% split, daily payouts and no consistency rule. One Live trader per household; other household members cannot hold SIM Funded accounts.

No

The5ers states that all activity is conducted in a simulated trading environment.

Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, PayPal, Crypto
Payout Frequency
  • BrightPlus: up to one approved payout per session; first payout from 24 hours after the first trade. Each subsequent payout requires fresh closed profit of 1% of the original account size.
  • BrightCore: winning-day cycles, counted again from the next full session after each payout.

First payout after 14 days; subsequent payouts every 14 days after the last approved withdrawal.

Payout Guarantee

Processing within 24 business hours of the request.

Approved withdrawals are normally processed within 3 business days.

Maximum Withdrawal

Per request: 25K $1,000; 50K $2,000; 100K $3,000; 150K $4,000.

  • BrightPlus: also limited to the balance above the buffer.
  • BrightCore: the lowest of the size cap, 50% of current profit, and balance minus (starting balance + $100). The 2x addon doubles only the size cap.

25K: $1,250. 50K: payouts 1–4 are capped at $1,500 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000; later payouts remain capped at $3,000. 100K and 150K: 3% of the current balance.

Minimum Withdrawal

Minimum request: $250, before the profit split.

A payout can be requested after reaching at least 4% profit over the initial account balance.

Other Payout Requirements

At least 18 or the higher local age of majority. Sumsub KYC and a signed contract before SIM Funded activation, within 24 hours of completing both. One profile per person. The minimum trade duration rule must be met in each payout cycle. USDC on ERC-20 or bank transfer.

The funded account must be at least 14 days old and have reached at least 4% profit. The 14-day cycle restarts after scaling.

Payout Fee
No data

3.5% for Rise, cryptocurrencies and bank transfers. No fee when the payout is converted into Hub Credits.

Commission

Per contract, per side, USD, all fees included: ES/NQ/RTY/YM 2.88; MES/MNQ/M2K/MYM 0.95; NKD/ZC/ZL/ZW 3.65; 6A/6B/6C/6E/6J/6N/6S/NG 3.10; M6A/M6B/M6E 0.84; CL 3.00; MCL 1.20; QM 2.70; QG 2.00; GC/SI/HG/PL 3.15; MGC 1.30; HE/LE 3.60; ZS/ZM 3.63. Round trip: twice these rates.

Standard futures: $5 per side. Micro futures: $2.50 per side.

Account Reset

After a breach, within the time shown on the dashboard. Restarts evaluation even from SIM Funded, keeping the account number and addons. Costs 55% of the current list price including addons; addons cannot change and the hedging warning is not restored.

No data
Add-ons
Yes

Optional at purchase, with additive surcharges on the base price: 100% Profit Split +20%; 2x Payout Cap +40%; BrightCore only, 3 Day Payout Cycle +20%. Targets, drawdown and contracts do not change.

No data
Instant
No
No
One Step
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown
  • BrightPlus: intraday trailing on peak equity, including open profit. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 once equity reaches the buffer.
  • BrightCore: trailing on the highest closing balance, updated between 4:45 and 5:59 PM ET. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 on the first approved payout, even if previously higher.
    No lock during evaluation. Touching the floor with live equity breaches the account at any time.

4% EOD trailing drawdown, calculated from the highest midnight balance or equity. After a payout, it resets to 4% below the new balance.

Profit Split

The split applies to each requested amount; the full request is deducted from the account balance.

80% for the trader across all funded accounts.

Daily Drawdown

No separate daily loss limit.

No data
Max Allocation
750,000
500,000
Mandatory buffer
Limited

BrightPlus: starting balance + MLL + $100, retained after every payout. Only closed profit counts. Falling below pauses payouts without breaching the account. BrightCore has no such buffer.

No
Maximum Accounts

Up to 5 active SIM Funded accounts across all plans and sizes. Unlimited evaluations. With all 5 slots used, another evaluation pass waits until a slot opens.

No data
Maximum Trading Days

No time limit, subject to inactivity rules.

No time limit. At least one trade must be placed every 14 days.

Minimum Trading Days

No explicit minimum. Consistency requires at least 2 sessions on BrightPlus and 3 on BrightCore in practice.

The evaluation can be passed in one trading day while respecting the consistency rule.

Points Reward Program

Trade2Earn: activity earns BrightTokens redeemable for perks and evaluations, with no cash value. On Live, Prime Ladder pays bonuses every 10 winning days through Diamond (80 days); Prime Trader at 90 is status only. Total bonuses per account: 25K $5,000; 50K $10,000; 100K $20,000; 150K $30,000. Losing days and payouts preserve progress; an account breach resets it.

No data
Minimum Profitable Days
  • BrightPlus: no winning-day requirement.
  • BrightCore SIM: 5 per payout, or 3 with the addon. Minimum closed net profit per session: 25K $100; 50K $200; 100K and 150K $300. Days need not be consecutive; at most one per session.
No data
Account scaling
No data
Yes

At every approved 10% profit milestone, buying power increases by 5%, up to $500,000.

Funded Phase Pricing Model
No data

No monthly fee. The current program catalogue shows no activation fee.

Position size scaling
No data
Yes

Every approved 10% profit milestone adds 1 mini and 10 micro contracts.

Evaluation Phase Pricing Model
No data

One-time evaluation fee with no monthly subscription.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

Only exclusively self-authored software with no third-party access. It must not mirror another trader, be a black box or run simultaneously at other firms. Source-code review may be required.

No

Algorithmic and high-frequency trading are prohibited.

VPN
Limited

VPN/VPS allowed without concealing identity or location or bypassing country restrictions. Only the owner may trade the account.

Yes
Hedging
No

Prohibited within and across your accounts, including different expiries, mini/micro and correlated instruments in the same group. First occurrence: warning, positions closed and profit removed while losses remain. Second: account breach. One warning per evaluation and one over the lifetime of SIM, not renewed by payouts or resets. Both accounts are penalized for a cross-account hedge.

No
Scalping
Limited

More than 50% of net winning-trade profit must come from trades held longer than 15 seconds. Partial fills count separately. Equality is insufficient. Noncompliance delays passing or blocks payouts without breaching the account; the calculation restarts after each payout. Exploitative tick scalping and HFT are prohibited.

Yes
Copy Trading
Limited

Only between your BrightFunded accounts within the same profile. Copying others, signals or group trading is a hard breach.

Limited

Only between the trader's own 25K and 50K accounts, with a combined maximum allocation of $75,000.

News Trading
Yes
Yes
Inactivity Rule

Open a new trade every 30 calendar days in evaluation and every 7 trading sessions in SIM, excluding holidays. Closing, editing and unfilled pending orders do not count. Advance warning; missing the deadline deactivates the account as a hard breach.

Yes

At least one trade must be placed every 14 days.

Consistency Rule
Limited

Evaluation only: best session / total net profit, up to 50% on BrightPlus and 40% on BrightCore. Includes commissions and losing days. Recalculated at session close; equality is allowed. Delays passing without breaching the account. Does not apply in SIM.

Yes

40% per-position consistency rule during evaluation and funded stages. It is calculated using accumulated profitable trades; losing trades are not deducted.

Hold Weekend
No
No
Prohibited Strategies

Exploiting simulated prices, latency, fills or liquidity; arbitrage, spoofing, layering, abusive HFT, oversized one-way bets, account rolling, third-party management and risk or size changes inconsistent with normal trading. Terms allow affected profits to be removed, extra limits imposed or accounts closed.

High-frequency trading, algorithmic trading and hedging.

Overnight positions
No

Automatic close at 4:45 PM ET, Monday to Friday, without a breach for auto-close. CME session runs from 6:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET the next day; holiday cutoffs may be earlier.

Limited

Day Trade does not allow overnight positions. Swing allows limited overnight exposure: 1 mini/10 micros on 25K and 50K, 2/20 on 100K and 3/30 on 150K.

Requires Stop Loss
No data
No
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
No data
Yes
Martingale
No data
Yes
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