The5ers Futures rules by account size (25K and 50K): Day Trade and Swing targets, 4% EOD loss limit, 40% consistency, payouts, scaling and prices

All figures come from the5ers.com: the product tables on the futures page (the5ers.com/futures/), the futures tab of the Summer Plan page, and the Futures FAQs help articles, read in English on 15 October 2026. On 16 October 2026 we fetched the futures product tables, the Summer Plan futures tab and all 47 Futures FAQ articles again: every product-table figure and every cited FAQ body was unchanged. The product tables show Evaluation Phase and Pro Stage columns for $25K and $50K accounts in two programs, Day Trade and Swing. Prices are the one-time evaluation fees printed on those tables. Where the product page and a help article word the same rule differently, we quote both, and the list near the end collects every place the pages disagree.

What this means for you: Every The5ers Futures figure here comes from the5ers.com product tables, the Summer Plan futures tab or the Futures FAQs, re-checked on 16 October 2026 with no changes; anything we worked out ourselves is tagged Ours.

The two programs share the same targets, loss limit, consistency rule and contract sizes. The difference is holding time. Day Trade: overnight holding is not allowed, and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes before market close. Swing: you can hold 1 mini contract or 10 micro contracts overnight, and bigger positions must close at least 10 minutes before market close. Neither program allows weekend holding, and missing these requirements can result in account termination. On the futures page the Day Trade 25K costs $59 and the 50K $100; the Swing 25K costs $69 and the 50K $120, under the label Summer Plan Price. Both programs say Activation fee (Upon Passing) None and Refunded on 3rd payout.

What this means for you: Day Trade and Swing share targets, 4% EOD max loss, 40% consistency and contract sizes; Swing alone may hold 1 mini / 10 micros overnight, and its list price still sits under Summer Plan Price.

Both programs and both stages list a Max Loss Limit of 4% with Drawdown Type EOD. The help article says the maximum drawdown is 4%, calculated from your highest midnight balance or equity, not the account's initial balance. Its example starts at $50,000, ends day 1 at a $50,200 midnight balance and puts the limit at $48,200; a $100 loss on day 2 leaves the limit where it was. After a payout, the drawdown limit resets to 4% below your new balance (after the withdrawal). The5ers' example: an account that grows to $55,000 has a limit of $52,800, and after a $1,500 withdrawal leaves $53,500 the new limit is $51,360. The futures pages do not say whether or where the limit stops moving. No daily loss limit is listed for the futures programs: none listed on the product table or in the futures faqs. The 3% daily loss limit on the Summer Plan page belongs to The5ers' CFD 1-Step and 2-Step plans, not to futures.

What this means for you: The 4% Max Loss Limit is EOD from your highest midnight balance, not the initial balance; from a fresh 50K the room is $2,000 (Ours) and there is no daily loss limit listed for futures.

The product tables call it Consistency Rule – Per Position, 40% in both stages, so the 50K evaluation shows 40% per position. The general rules article says one trade cannot represent more than 40% of total profits, and the What Is the Consistency Rule article gives a 50K example: the evaluation profit target is $3,000, and if one trade makes $1,600 you need total profits of $4,000 ($1,600 ÷ 0.40) before that trade is compliant. The rule applies on funded accounts as well. Breaching it does not fail the account. In The5ers' words, it simply means you are not eligible for a payout or scale-up yet, and you keep trading until the best trade or day is back within 40%. You can pass the evaluation in one trading day, but the 40% rule still applies. Other articles describe the measure as your best trading day and differ on how losses count; see the list of differences below.

What this means for you: 40% consistency (per position on the product table; some articles say best trading day) blocks payouts and scale-ups until you are back inside the rule — it does not fail the account.

To request a payout the account must be a funded futures account, have reached 4% profit or more, calculated from your initial account balance, and be at least 14 days old. A separate withdrawal-limits article puts it as a minimum withdrawal of 4% of your account balance and 1 payout request per 14 calendar days. Payouts run on a biweekly (14-day period) basis, and the payout cycle resets every time a new account is scaled. Each payout is capped: the 25K at $1,250 across all payouts, and 50K to 150K accounts at 3% of your initial balance. Fees: 3.5% commission on Rise, cryptocurrency and bank transfer payouts; no commission on Hub Credits, which can only be used toward programs and cannot be withdrawn. The split is an 80/20 profit split, and it stays 80/20 on all future payouts. At your third payout The5ers refunds the full evaluation fee you paid, added to your equity, on both programs and every size; its example is a 50K Day Trade bought for $100. Evaluation profits do not carry over: the funded account starts at the program's starting balance.

What this means for you: Pro payouts need 4% from the initial balance and an account at least 14 days old; the 50K can take at most $1,500 per payout (3%, Ours) after qualifying at $2,000, and the evaluation fee is refunded into equity on the 3rd payout.

Once funded, the account scales at every 10% profit milestone: balance +5%, +1 mini and +10 micro contracts. You close all positions, the account is reviewed by the Risk Department, and a new scaled-up account is issued. The summer page table lists the steps: a 25K scales at $2,500 to $26,250 and 3 mini / 30 micros, a 50K at $5,000 to $52,500 and 5 minis / 50 micros. The futures page says the account can scale up to $500K.

What this means for you: Funded accounts scale at every 10% profit: +5% balance and +1 mini / +10 micros, with the Summer Plan page table spelling out the first step on each size.

The futures page product tables sell only $25K and $50K. Larger sizes appear only in help text and on the Summer Plan page, without a published price, dollar target or dollar loss limit. What is printed: contract limits of 8 minis and 80 micros on a $100K and 12 minis and 120 micros on a $150K; the payout cap of 3% of your initial balance for 50K to 150K accounts; an account limit of 2 for 100k and 1 for 150k (Swing and Day Trade); and a summer scaling table where a $100,000 scales at $10,000 to $105,000 and 9 minis / 90 micros, and a $150,000 at $15,000 to $157,500 and 13 minis / 130 micros. The Summer Plan FAQ calls 100K and 150K two new account tiers for Swing.

What this means for you: 100K and 150K appear in help text and on the Summer Plan page without a published price on the futures product tables.

The5ers Futures charges a one-time upfront fee and no monthly subscription on either program, and no activation fee after passing. The Swing prices ($69 and $120) sit under a Summer Plan Price label on 15 October 2026 (still labelled that way when re-checked on 16 October 2026). Accounts bought during the Summer Plan keep running exactly as normal after the promotion ends. Swing accounts also get Summer Boost Rewards in Hub Credits: $15 at the Funded Stage, $20, $25 and $35 at the 1st, 2nd and 4th payouts, and a full account refund plus $30 at the 3rd payout. Refunds: within 5 days of purchase and with no transactions made, a refund is available; after 5 days refunds are issued only in Hub Credits. The site-wide banner offering $100K for $149 is a CFD Summer Plan offer, not a futures price. No firm-published futures promo code was found in this check.

What this means for you: One-time fees, no monthly subscription, no activation fee; Day Trade $59 / $100, Swing Summer Plan Price $69 / $120 (still labelled that way on 16 October 2026).

The futures market opens 5:00 PM CT (6:00 PM ET) Sunday and closes 4:00 PM CT (5:00 PM ET) Friday, with a daily maintenance break from 4:00 to 5:00 PM CT (5:00 to 6:00 PM ET). News trading is allowed. High-frequency trading, algorithmic trading and hedging are not permitted, and the general rules article names arbitrage and high-frequency trades lasting only a few seconds or less. There is no time limit to complete the evaluation, but you must place at least one trade every 14 calendar days or the account is terminated for inactivity. You can hold up to 5 accounts per size for 25K and 50K, copy trading is permitted only between your own 25K and 50K accounts with a total size of up to $75,000, and BlackArrow is currently the only trading platform supported (its separate demo account shows a $1,000,000 balance; The5ers account numbers start with 12). Market data is included at no extra cost. Commissions are $5.00 on standard contracts and $2.50 on micros.

What this means for you: Close or reduce by about 10 minutes before the close (The5ers print ET, CT and CET in different articles); news is allowed; HFT, algo and hedging are not; platform is BlackArrow.

The FAQ on The5ers' futures page and its futures FAQ article on the topic (last update 12 October 2026, read on 18 October 2026) answer No to high-frequency trading, algorithmic trading or hedging: algorithmic trading is strictly forbidden, together with high-frequency trading and hedging; traders found using them will be banned from the programs. In our reading that rules out trading bots and automated strategies on The5ers Futures (The5ers' own wording is algorithmic trading). Copy trading has its own FAQ article (last update 15 July 2026, read on 18 October 2026): copying is permitted only on 25K and 50K accounts with a total size of up to $75,000; only your own accounts and your own trades can be copied, and you can't copy trades from another trader or let anyone else copy trades from you.

What this means for you: No bots or algo trading on The5ers Futures; copying is only between your own 25K and 50K accounts, up to $75,000 in total.

These are TradeDesk HQ calculations from The5ers' printed percentages and sizes, not figures The5ers publishes as dollar rows on the product tables (except the consistency article's own $3,000 example on a 50K). Evaluation profit target at 6%: $1,500 on a 25K and $3,000 on a 50K (The5ers' consistency article states the $3,000 figure). Max Loss Limit room at 4% from a fresh start: $1,000 on a 25K and $2,000 on a 50K; starting floors $24,000 and $48,000. The5ers' own midnight-balance example on a 50K ends at a $2,000 gap ($50,200 → $48,200), which matches that room while the floor has moved with the high. Pro Stage profit target at 4%: $1,000 on a 25K and $2,000 on a 50K. Payout eligibility on Pro is also 4% from the initial balance, so on a 50K you need $2,000 of profit to qualify, while each payout is capped at 3% of the initial balance = $1,500 (Ours). The 25K per-withdrawal cap is a fixed $1,250 ("across all payouts" = the same dollar cap on every payout); the 50K cap is 3% of initial balance = $1,500 (Ours). If you finish the evaluation exactly on the 6% target, 40% of that target is $600 on a 25K and $1,200 on a 50K (Ours); The5ers' own example of a $1,600 trade on a 50K needs $4,000 of total profits before that trade is within 40%. Target ÷ max-loss room from a fresh start: 1.5 on both sizes (Ours). Cost per dollar of fresh max-loss room (Ours): Day Trade 25K $59 for $1,000 ($0.059 per dollar of room), Day Trade 50K $100 for $2,000 ($0.05); Swing 25K $69 and Swing 50K $120 for the same rooms. The losing-trade ladder at the top of this page uses CME contract specs for point values ($2 on MNQ, $5 on MES, $20 on NQ, $50 on ES), not The5ers figures — The5ers' commissions article lists round-turn commissions only. It counts consecutive full-stop losing trades from a fresh account at its start-of-day balance until the 4% room is reached, treats a touch of that room as a fail (The5ers do not say whether an intraday touch or only the end-of-day figure counts; Ours is the cautious reading; see item d), and assumes no daily loss limit because none is listed for futures. Its TOO TIGHT, WORKABLE and COMFORTABLE tags are a TradeDesk HQ rule of thumb: the account fails within 5 losing trades, on trade 6 to 9, or not before trade 10.

What this means for you: Ours: 6% → $1,500 / $3,000, 4% room → $1,000 / $2,000, floors $24,000 / $48,000, 25K per-payout cap $1,250 and 50K $1,500 after a $2,000 qualification, target÷room 1.5, and the ladder uses CME point values.

(a) Close-out time: the futures and Summer Plan pages say all positions must be closed by 4:50 PM ET (10 minutes before market close); the market hours article says 4:50 PM CT, although the same article says the market closes at 4:00 PM CT; the overnight holding and programs articles say 4:50 PM CET. All of them agree on at least 10 minutes before market close. (b) Account sizes: the product tables sell only 25K and 50K, while the contract limits and payout caps articles, the futures page FAQ on account limits and the Summer Plan page mention 100K and 150K. The Summer Plan FAQ calls them Swing tiers, while the futures page FAQ says 100k accounts (Swing and Day Trade) are limited to 2 accounts and 150k accounts to 1. (c) Consistency basis: the product table says per position and the general rules article says one trade, while the best-day articles measure your best trading day. The how-calculated article says your best trade must be less than 40%, the best-day articles say 40% or less. One article counts only accumulated profitable trades (losers are not deducted), another says the rule uses total gross P&L, your present P&L. One older Futures FAQs article works its example with a 50% rule. (d) Drawdown example: the maximum drawdown article says the limit is calculated from your highest midnight balance, then puts the limit at $48,200 after a $50,200 midnight balance and calls that 4% below that balance, which it is not; the payout example puts the limit at $52,800 at $55,000. (e) Scaling example: the scaling article lists $50,000 + $2,500 + 80% of $5,000 ($4,000) and then a new account balance of $52,500; the futures page says the new balance is $52,500 plus your share of profits after the 80/20 split. (f) Account limits: the accounts article covers only 25K and 50K (5 each); the futures page FAQ adds 100k (2) and 150k (1). (g) Commissions: the commissions table is headed Round Turn Commission, while its summary says $5.00 and $2.50 per side. (h) Summer Plan: one FAQ calls the Futures Summer Plan a limited-time offer running through the end of summer, another says it introduces permanent price drops on Swing accounts with only the reward ladder limited-time; the futures page still shows the Swing prices under Summer Plan Price on 15 October 2026 (and on 16 October 2026). (i) Payout threshold: the product table says Pro Stage Profit Target 4%, the payout article says 4% profit calculated from your initial account balance, and the withdrawal-limits article says a minimum withdrawal of 4% of your account balance. That withdrawal-limits page is a general FAQ at the5ers.com/faqs/…, not under Futures FAQs. The payout-caps article opens with a maximum payout amount per withdrawal: on the 25K the cap "remain[s] consistent at $1,250 across all payouts" (a fixed $1,250 per withdrawal), and on 50K to 150K "Each payout is capped at 3% of your initial balance".

What this means for you: Nine lettered places where The5ers' own pages disagree or need careful reading, including the cut-off timezone, 100K/150K availability, consistency basis, and the 4% payout-threshold wording.

The full instrument list (index, currency, energy, metal and grain futures plus micro single stock futures), per-contract commissions, country eligibility, payment methods and The5ers' CFD and stock programs. Rules change; check the5ers.com/futures and the Futures FAQs before you buy.

What this means for you: Instrument list detail, country eligibility, payment methods and The5ers' CFD/stock programs are out of scope; confirm every figure on the5ers.com before you buy.

• The5ers Futures product page (Day Trade / Swing tables)
• The5ers Summer Plan page (futures tab)
• What Are the General Rules for the Futures Program?
• What is My Maximum Drawdown/Loss Limit?
• Does My Drawdown Limit Change After a Withdrawal?
• What Are the Requirements for a Payout?
• What are the Payout Caps?
• What Payout Methods Are Supported?
• How Does the Evaluation Fee Refund Work?
• What is the Scaling Plan?
• What Is the Consistency Rule?
• How is the Consistency Rule Calculated?
• What Happens if My Best Trading Day Is Above the Allowed Percentage?
• Why Does My Consistency P&L Look Higher Than My Actual Daily Net Profit?
• Is the Consistency Rule Calculated Based on current P&L?
• What Happens if my Best Trading Day is Above the Allowed Percentage?
• Can I Pass the Evaluation In One Day?
• Are There Time Limits or Active Trading Requirements for Evaluation?
• What are the Futures Market Hours?
• Can I Hold Positions Overnight?
• What Programs Does The5ers Futures Offer?
• What are the Contract Size Limits?
• How Many The5ers Futures Accounts Can I Have?
• Can I Copytrade Between my Futures Accounts?
• What Is the Profit Split in The5ers Futures?
• What trading platform can I use with The5ers Futures?
• What Are Each of the Futures Trading Commissions & Contracts? (2026)
• What Is the Cancellation and Refund Policy?
• Is There a Monthly Subscription During the Evaluation?
• Is High-Frequency Trading, Algorithmic Trading, or Hedging Permitted?
• What is the Futures Summer Plan?
• How Many Contracts Can I Hold Overnight?
• Minimum withdrawal amounts and limits (general FAQ, not under Futures FAQs)

Last checked 2026-10-16.