Detailed Comparison: The5ers vs Crypto Fund Trader (2025)

Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland

14 Haroshet st, Raanaa, Israel

Alan Sanchez

Saul Lokier

Switzerland

Israel

2022

2016

Liquidity Provider

High Stakes: Full refund after passing evaluation.

• Summer 1-Step: 10% of the evaluation fee in Hub Credits once funded.
• Summer 2-Step: 10% Hub Credits after Step One, 20% after Step Two, and 70% fee refund with the third payout.

5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.

• Rise: 3.5% per withdrawal
• Crypto: 3.5% per withdrawal
• Bank Transfer: 3.5% + any fees charged by the receiving bank
• Hub Credits: no commission

1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.

• First withdrawal: 14 days after your funded account is activated.
• Subsequent withdrawal requests: Every 2 weeks from your last approved withdrawal.
• High Stakes Program: Withdrawals available once a minimum profit of $150 has been reached, subject to the 14-day waiting period.

$5,000 per transaction (crypto)

Crypto: $1,500

• High Stakes $50K: $3,000 payout cap per cycle.
• High Stakes $100K: $4,000 payout cap per cycle.
• Summer 2-Step $100K: $2,000 payout cap per withdrawal.
• Summer 2-Step $200K: $3,000 payout cap per withdrawal.

• High Stakes $2.5K-$25K: $150
• High Stakes $50K: $300
• High Stakes $100K: $500
• Summer Plan: $250

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• High Stakes: 100:1
• Hyper-Growth: 30:1
• ProGrowth: 30:1
• Bootcamp: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• High Stakes: 25:1
• Hyper-Growth: 25:1
• ProGrowth: 25:1
• Bootcamp: 25:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• High Stakes: 5:1
• Hyper-Growth: 1.5:1
• ProGrowth: 1.5:1
• Bootcamp: 1.5:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 20:1

• High Stakes: 25:1
• Hyper-Growth: 25:1
• ProGrowth: 25:1
• Bootcamp: 25:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 5:1

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
• Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.

• High Stakes: 2:1
• Hyper-Growth: 0.6:1
• ProGrowth: 0.6:1
• Bootcamp: 0.6:1

The5ers do offer Swap Free accounts on theFunded stage, reach out via support chat or email help@the5ers.com to request yours.

If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No trade lost more than 2%.

2-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $180
• $10,000 -> $345
• $25,000 -> $760
• $50,000 -> $1,140
• $100,000 -> $1,880
• $200,000 -> $3,620

1-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $198
• $10,000 -> $380
• $25,000 -> $840
• $50,000 -> $1,255
• $100,000 -> $2,079
• $200,000 -> $3,980

1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).

Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.

Hyper-Growth:

High Stakes & ProGrowth:

Bootcamp:

Summer Plan $100K:

The $200,000 Summer 2-Step does not scale; its balance remains fixed at $200,000.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
• Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Balance-based

• Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
• 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
• Break: 80% in the Final Stage.

Bootcamp and Hyper-Growth: Starts at 50%. It grows up to 100% through scaling
High Stakes and ProGrowth: Starts at 80%. It grows up to 100% through scaling
Summer Plan $100K: 75%/25% (fixed across scaling tiers, limited-time)
Summer 2-Step $200K: 80%/20% (fixed; no scaling, limited-time)

If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No single trade lost more than 2%.
• You traded for at least 15 days.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
• Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark).

Daily pause (only Bootcamp): The 3% daily pause applies only to funded accounts. Traders can continue trading the very next day at 00:00 MT5 Server Time.

ProGrowth: 3% daily loss (highest between starting equity or starting balance of the day at MT5 Server Time). No daily pause.

Summer Plan: The EOD calculation uses the higher of balance or equity. Reaching the daily loss limit permanently terminates the account.

Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.

High Stakes

• Up to 3 accounts on each of the $2.5K, $5K, and $10K sizes (10% / 5%)
• One account of either $10K or $20K
• One account of either $60K or $100K

ProGrowth

3 accounts max, one of each size ($5K, $10K, and $20K).

Hyper-Growth

$40,000. (eg. you can have 4 X $10K, or 2 X $20K accounts all adding to the max starting capital of $40K)

Bootcamp

3 accounts (one $250K account + two $100K accounts). Each account must have a different trading method.

Summer Plan

Up to 6 active accounts. Two accounts may be purchased together.

Maximum aggregate buying power: $600,000 per trader.

• Up to one $200K 10/5 account and one $200K 8/5 account at the same time.
• Both $200K accounts total $400K, leaving up to $200K for additional $100K Summer Plan accounts.

• 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
• Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
• Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.

Hub Credits are used to purchase new programs and are valid for 3 months.

They can be earned through weekly competitions, progress in the High Stakes program, or live stream giveaways.

High Stakes: 3 days to pass evaluation (+0.5%)
ProGrowth: 3 profitable days (+0.5% of initial balance)

Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.

• Hyper-Growth, ProGrowth and High Stakes: Not mandatory
• Bootcamp: Mandatory. You are not permitted to expose more than 2% of your starting account balance to risk, and the stop-loss must be placed within three minutes of opening any trade.

Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.

Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.

Bootcamp: Risking more than 2% of the account balance in a single position will be considered a risk violation.

Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.

If you have multiple Bootcamp accounts, they will need to be traded with different strategies

When managing $500,000 or more including all your accounts, you are not allowed copy trades between accounts anymore

Ascend

During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.

• Hyper-Growth, ProGrowth and Bootcamp: Allowed (except bracketing)
• High Stakes: Not allowed to open/close orders 2 minutes before/after the release (profit deduction only)

Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.

• Summer 1-Step: 50% consistency in Evaluation and Funded Trader stages.
• Summer 2-Step: no consistency rule in Evaluation.
  • $100K funded accounts: 50% applies to profits used for withdrawals or scale-up.
  • $200K funded accounts: 50% applies to profits used for withdrawals; these accounts do not scale.

Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.

High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.

• Arbitrage Trading
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Bulk Trading
• News Bracketing Strategy
• Exploitation of System Errors or Price Glitches
• Trade Coordination / Copy Trading
• One-Sided Trading Strategies
• Rollover Night Scalping Using Expert Advisors
• Third-Party Expert Advisors (Copy Trading EAs)
• Use of Expert Advisors Without Source Code Ownership
• Tick Scalping
• Hedge Arbitrage Trading
• Reverse Arbitrage Trading
• Account Sharing or Account Reselling
• Account Management Services / "Pass Your Challenge" Services

30 days