The5ers review: rules, fees and drawdown

What The5ers offers

The5ers offers Bootcamp, High Stakes and Hyper Growth challenges for forex, commodities and indices on MT5 Hedge. It also lists Futures Day Trade, which uses Black Arrow. We read the official rules pages in October 2026.

The daily loss consequence is the main distinction: High Stakes ends your account when you reach its 5% daily limit, while Hyper Growth pauses trading for the session at 3%. A pause is not an account breach.

Challenge options and listed fees

Bootcamp’s advertised account size is not necessarily your starting evaluation balance. Its 20K path starts at $5,000, then moves through $10,000 and $15,000 before the $20,000 Pro Trader stage. Its entry fee is only part of the cost; the remaining fee is payable upon success.

• Bootcamp is a three-step evaluation with a 6% target at each step. Entry fees are $22 for 20K, $95 for 100K and $225 for 250K, as listed in October 2026. Evaluation has no minimum days and unlimited time to pass.
• High Stakes is a two-step evaluation with targets of 8% and 5%. Listed sizes are 2.5K, 5K, 10K, 25K, 50K and 100K; the pages we read do not state fees. Each step requires 3 profitable days, each earning at least 0.5% of the initial balance from closed positions.
• Hyper Growth is a one-step evaluation with a 10% target and no minimum trading days for the initial level. Fees are $52 for 5K, $98 for 10K, $189 for 20K and $329 for 50K, as listed in October 2026. Time to pass is unlimited.
• Futures Day Trade lists 25K and 50K sizes, a 6% evaluation target and a 4% funded target. It may be passed in 1 day and has no monthly fees. Size-specific fees are not stated on the pages we read, although a separate passage lists a $59 evaluation fee, as listed in October 2026; confirm which account it covers.

What pauses or ends an account

A static loss floor stays tied to your initial balance rather than rising as you make profits. High Stakes has a static maximum loss of 10% of initial balance. Its separate 5% daily limit terminates the account immediately when reached, even if you have not exhausted the overall allowance.

Hyper Growth has a static stop-out level 6% below initial balance. Its 3% daily pause suspends trading for the rest of the session without closing the account. The daily pause does not remove the overall stop-out rule.

Bootcamp allows a maximum loss of 5% in each evaluation step. Its table lists a 4% maximum loss in the Pro Trader stage and a 3% daily pause only after funding. The pages we read do not state how Bootcamp’s floor moves or the precise daily calculation basis.

Futures Day Trade lists a 4% maximum daily loss, measured at end of day, in both evaluation and funded stages. The pages we read do not state its overall loss floor or drawdown type.

Withdrawals, splits and refunds

Funded-stage withdrawals are bi-weekly across programs. The payout cycle resets whenever a new scaled account is issued. The pages we read do not state a minimum withdrawal amount or the exact first-request date.

Bootcamp advertises profit share up to 100%, while High Stakes lists 80% to 100%. Hyper Growth’s comparison text states a 50% starting split, while its program table advertises up to 100%. Those figures are not interchangeable; confirm the split at your current level. The Futures scaling example uses an 80/20 split.

The Futures evaluation fee is refunded after the third payout. The pages we read do not state fee-refund terms for the other programs or a complete progression schedule for their profit splits.

News, holding and automation rules

High Stakes prohibits execution within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news. Futures permits news trading. The pages we read do not state equivalent news windows for Bootcamp or Hyper Growth.

CFD programs permit overnight and weekend holding, but index weekend swaps carry higher costs. Futures Day Trade prohibits weekend holding. Apply the program-specific rule rather than assuming the general holding statement covers Futures.

EAs, or automated trading systems, are permitted across programs, but price-feed and latency exploitation are prohibited. Copying between your own accounts is allowed except on Bootcamp; copying external signals is prohibited. Bootcamp also requires a stop-loss on every position throughout the program.

Futures has a consistency rule: one trade cannot represent more than 40% of total profits. If it does, you must keep trading until its share falls to 40% or less. High Stakes requires profitable days as described above, not merely days with trading activity.

Unlimited time does not mean unlimited inactivity. The general challenge rule requires activity within any 30-day window, and Bootcamp specifically closes accounts after more than 30 consecutive inactive days.

What to confirm before paying

Challenges are paid evaluations on simulated accounts. Most traders do not pass, and the fee is usually lost when they fail. Funded accounts are also simulated at most prop firms; the published The5ers pages do not establish the execution status of every funded program.

• Confirm the current checkout price, Bootcamp’s remaining success fee and which Futures size the $59 fee covers.
• Confirm whether daily limits use balance or equity, how open losses count and when the daily calculation resets; the pages we read do not state these details.
• Check the news window, weekend policy, copying restrictions and inactivity rule for your exact program.
• Confirm your starting profit split, minimum payout amount, first withdrawal eligibility and any refund conditions.