Detailed Comparison: Funded Elite vs The5ers (2025)

Corso G. Matteotti 61, Latina, 04100, Italy

14 Haroshet st, Raanaa, Israel

Christian Habibi

Saul Lokier

Italy

Israel

2023

2016

Liquidity Provider

• Without Second Chance: If you complete our challenges successfully on your first attempt, your original fee will be reimbursed with your third payout.
• With Second Chance: If you activated the "Second Chance" option and received a complimentary retry, the initial fee becomes non-refundable.

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.

• Rise: $35
• ERC20 and BTC: Around $7
• TRC20: Around $3

• 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

Can be choose at checkout: 3, 7, 14, 21 days

• 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.

• Crypto: $500
• Giveaway and free accounts: 2% of the initial balance

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.

• Crypto: $30
• Rise: $500

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

30:1 (50:1 and 100:1 available as an add-on at the checkout)

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

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

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

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

• 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.

Traders can independently restart their live account directly from the dashboard.

• The initial reset carries a fee equal to 20% of the original challenge price (no discounts applied and including any selected add-ons), with a minimum charge of $10 USD.
• The fee for the second reset will be double the cost of the first reset.
• The third and final reset will cost twice the fee of the second reset.

• Forex Leverage: 30:1, 50:1, 100:1
• Allow Scalping
• Weekend trading (open or close positions)
• Profit Split: 60%, 70%, 80%, 95%
• Days between payout: 3, 7, 14, 21
• Profit target: 6-12
• Max Drawdown: 6-10

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.

• 1 Step, 2 Step: Static
• Instant: Trailing
• Activation: Static during challenge and trailing on funded account
• Catalyst: Trailing equity. 6% at $25K, 5% from $50K up

Balance-based

• 1 Step, 2 Step: 60%, 70%, 80%, 95% (can be selected at the checkout)
• Instant: 70%, 95%
• Activation: 80%
• Catalyst: 80% at $25K, 85% at $50K, 90% at $100K, 95% from $200K and up

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)

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

• Catalyst: 3% of the higher of yesterday's closing balance or equity

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.

• Vietnam, Pakistan: 100,000
• Rest of the world: 300,000

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 Step, 2 Step: 3 days on funded account

• 1 Step, 2 Step: 3 days of at least 0.5% profit on challenge phase
• Instant: 3 days of at least 1% profit on funded phase
• Activation: 3 days of at least 0.5% profit on both challenge and funded phase
• Catalyst: 5 days with a minimum PnL per stage ($150 / $250 / $350 / $450 / $650 / $850 / $1,000 for $25K → $1M)

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

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.

Only manual trading tools are allowed, not automated trading

Must inform Funded Elite in advance

• 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.

Trades must last longer than 30 seconds if the scalping add-on was purchased, and more than3 minutes if it wasn't

Funded Phase: Risking more than 50% of your daily loss limit on a single instrument during the same day is strictly prohibited.

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

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

• 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)

29 days

30 days

• Instant: yes
• Catalyst: yes

• 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.

• IP sharing
• HFT
• Hedging
• Account Rolling
• Account Sharing/any passing service
• Latency Arbitrage
• Server Spamming

• 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