Comparison · The5ers
The5ers,
from its own terms
Israel (Raanana; Israeli residents on the firm’s own Forbidden Territories list); no regulator. Every number sourced to https://the5ers.com/high-stakes/, accessed 2026-08-03.
- Jurisdiction
- Israel (Raanana; Israeli residents on the firm’s own Forbidden Territories list)
- Regulator
- none
- Source accessed
- 2026-08-03
The rules
Step 1 (High Stakes 2-Step)
- Profit target
- 10%
- Daily loss limit
- 5%
- Max drawdown
- 10%
- Trailing drawdown
- not published
- Time limit
- not published
- Min trading days
- 3 days
Step 2 (High Stakes 2-Step)
- Profit target
- 5%
- Daily loss limit
- 5%
- Max drawdown
- 10%
- Trailing drawdown
- not published
- Time limit
- not published
- Min trading days
- 3 days
Profit split, fee, trading permissions
- Profit split
- 80% on High Stakes funded (75% on Hyper Growth), scaling to 100% at $500K (per the scaling plan on each program page)
- Fee
- $19 challenge fee on High Stakes (refundable on Step 2); no published fee on Hyper Growth; Bootcamp $22 / $50 / $95 ($20K / $100K / $250K)
- News trading
- permitted (with bracketing-strategy restriction; High Stakes also has a ±2 minute blackout on high-impact news)
- Weekend holding
- permitted
- EAs / automation
- permitted (third-party EAs where many users run the same strategy prohibited)
Payout rules
- First request
- not published
- Minimum
- not published
- Settlement target
- 16h (homepage average, not a published SLA)
- Review cap
- not published
First paid event is the $2 reward on passing Step 1. Funded-stage payouts trigger on each 10% scaling target; the homepage advertises a 16-hour average payout time without publishing it as a settlement SLA. A $4,000 fixed payout is set at $350K-$450K and a $10,000 fixed payout at the $500K scaling cap.
Denial clauses
The published grounds on which this firm can refuse or void a payout, quoted verbatim from its own terms. Where the firm advertises “no denials” and publishes refusal grounds elsewhere, both are noted.
Account multiplication (one-account-per-user)
The5ers Terms of Service state: “We allow only one Account per User. Multiple accounts for the same User are forbidden.” Shared or joint accounts are likewise forbidden, and the account may not be transferred. The Prohibited Trading Practices FAQ groups this with “Account Sharing or Reselling accounts with other individuals or entities” and “Account Management Services ‘Pass your Challenge’”.
Source: firm’s terms
Hedge / cross-account arbitrage
The Prohibited Trading Practices FAQ lists “Hedge Arbitrage Trading” (buying and selling the same pair on different accounts to exploit pricing inefficiencies) and “Reverse Arbitrage Trading”, together with “Cross-operator coordinated trading, performed alone or in concert with other persons across accounts held with different providers” including simultaneously entering opposite positions. Holding opposing positions on correlated instruments to artificially distribute profit across multiple days is also listed.
Source: firm’s terms
News / bracketing strategy
High Stakes Terms: “Holding open trades over news is allowed. Executing orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is not allowed.” The Prohibited FAQ adds the broader ban: “Bracketing strategy by opening pending orders around high-impact news” — placing buy/sell stops near price ahead of announcements. Hyper Growth permits news trading generally but excludes bracketing by the same T&C reference.
Source: firm’s terms
Circumvention / sole-discretion termination
The Terms of Service reserve “the sole and absolute discretion to accept or reject” any application, “to modify these Terms from time to time in Our sole discretion”, and to “conduct the User Verification Process at any time on our sole discretion”. A circumvention breach forfeits fees and the user is “not entitled to any financial refund for fees paid (including Evaluation fees)”.
Source: firm’s terms
upme vs The5ers
Where they differ and where we can’t compare. upme’s figures are from its published rulebook v1.2. The5ers’s figures are from its own terms, accessed 2026-08-03. Where The5ers has not published a number, the row reads “not published” and no comparison is drawn — a missing number is not a worse number.
| Rule | upme (v1.2, not in force) | The5ers |
|---|---|---|
| Profit target | 8% | 10% |
| Daily loss limit | 5% | 5% |
| Max drawdown | 10% | 10% |
Sources
Every number on this page is drawn from one of the documents below; a figure that cannot be traced to one does not belong here. Corrections: hello@upme.com.
- The5ers homepage (jurisdiction, company, 10 years active, 16h avg payout, consistency 50%) — accessed 2026-08-03
- The5ers High Stakes 2-Step (10%/5% phase targets, 5%/10% loss limits, 1:100 leverage, 3 min days, ±2 min news blackout, 80% base split, $19 fee, scaling to 100%) — accessed 2026-08-03
- The5ers Hyper Growth 1-Step (10% target, 3%/6% loss limits, 1:30 leverage, no min days, news allowed with bracketing exclusion) — accessed 2026-08-03
- The5ers Bootcamp 3-Step (6%/6%/6% phase targets, 5%/4% loss limits, 1:30 leverage, scaling 50/50 → 100/0, $22/$50/$95 fees) — accessed 2026-08-03
- The5ers Terms of Service dated 2026-02-25 (sole-discretion language, KYC at funded stage, one-account-per-user, chargeback clause, Forbidden Territories including Israel, governing law Israel / Tel Aviv courts) — accessed 2026-08-03
- The5ers Prohibited Trading Practices (hedge/reverse arbitrage, cross-operator coordination, account sharing, bracketing, rollover-night scalping EAs) — accessed 2026-08-03
- The5ers AML Policy (FATF alignment, Israeli AML law, no published KYC timing detail beyond ToS) — accessed 2026-08-03