The 5%ers

• Bootcamp (Three-Step Evaluation, lower upfront fee, 1:10 leverage)
• High Stakes (Two-Step Evaluation, up to 1:100 leverage, 80–100% split)
• Hyper Growth (One-Step Evaluation, 1:30 leverage, fast scaling)
• Scaling plan up to $4M with potential 100% profit split
• Strong education, Discord community, and frequent contests

Scaling Plan

The 5%ers offers a multi-stage scaling plan that rewards consistent performance with larger account sizes, higher profit splits, and, at higher tiers, fixed monthly salaries.

Bootcamp Scaling: After passing three evaluation steps (each with a 6% target and 5% max loss, then 4% funded), funded traders can scale by hitting 5% profit milestones. Profit split starts at 50%, rises to 75% once the balance reaches $25K, 80% at $2M, and 100% at $2.5M, with salary options (e.g., $4,000 at $350K and $10,000 at $500K).

High Stakes Scaling: Funded accounts scale at each 10% profit target, with profit splits starting at 80% and increasing toward 100% as capital grows, up to $500K, including the potential for fixed monthly salary at higher tiers.

Hyper Growth Scaling: Accounts double each time a 10% profit target is reached (with 6% max loss and 1:30 leverage), allowing rapid progression up to around $4M while profit splits can reach 100%.

Across all programs, scaling is performance-based and designed to reward consistent risk management and profitability.

Maximum Daily Loss

Daily loss limits at The 5%ers focus on controlling intraday risk, especially within the High Stakes and Bootcamp structures.

• High Stakes: Daily drawdown limit of 5%, typically calculated from the previous day's closing balance, including both closed and floating PnL.
• Bootcamp: While the program emphasises a 5% max loss per stage rather than a separate daily cap, traders must still stay comfortably within this limit to avoid breaching.
• Hyper Growth: Uses a 6% overall loss cap with no separate published daily percentage, but over-aggressive intraday risk that pushes close to the 6% limit can still trigger violations.

If intraday equity or balance falls beyond the allowed daily or effective risk thresholds, the account or evaluation step can be failed even if losses are partially recovered later in the day.

Maximum Overall Loss

The 5%ers defines maximum overall loss per program to cap total drawdown across each phase or funded account.

• Bootcamp: 5% max loss at each evaluation step and 4% max loss once funded, measured from the starting balance of the stage.
• High Stakes: 10% maximum overall loss for each evaluation phase and funded account, with 5% daily drawdown included.
• Hyper Growth: 6% maximum overall loss throughout the evaluation and funded stages, with positions allowed to be held overnight and over weekends.

Breaching the overall loss limit on any program results in the account or evaluation being terminated, regardless of intraday recovery.

Drawdown Model

The 5%ers uses fixed percentage loss limits rather than trailing equity models. Each program specifies a static maximum loss relative to the starting balance of the phase or funded stage (e.g., 5% or 10% for Bootcamp and High Stakes, 6% for Hyper Growth).

• Static Limits: Maximum loss is typically defined as a fixed percentage of the starting balance, and includes both closed and floating losses.
• Program-Specific Caps: Bootcamp and Hyper Growth are structured around relatively conservative overall loss thresholds (4–6%), while High Stakes allows a larger 10% drawdown paired with higher leverage.

This approach gives traders predictable risk boundaries for each stage while avoiding trailing drawdown mechanics that move with peak equity.

Commissions

The 5%ers uses a straightforward commission structure across asset classes.

FX: $4 per standard lot (round turn), which is lower than many competing prop firms that charge around $7.

Metals: 0.0001% per lot.

Energy: 0.0001% per lot.

Crypto: 0.0001% per lot.

Indices: No commission, with costs coming only from the spread.

This makes The 5%ers relatively competitive on commissions, especially for active FX traders.

News trading is allowed on most The 5%ers programs with important restrictions.

• Bootcamp and Hyper Growth: News trading is permitted, but placing bracket orders (pending orders around major news purely to capture spikes) is prohibited.
• High Stakes: Executing orders from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is not allowed.

These rules are intended to prevent abusive event-driven strategies while still allowing normal trading around news where permitted.