Prop Firm Information Differences: FundedNext & The5ers

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Field FundedNext Active The5ers Active
Data Source PropFirmMatch.com PropFirmMatch.com
Official Site fundednext.com the5ers.com
πŸ“ Firm Overview
Broker FundedNext Ltd Commercial Liquidity Provider
Platform cTrader, Match Trader, MT4, MT5 cTrader, MT5
Payment Methods Apple Pay, Astropay, Credit/Debit Card, Crypto, Google Pay, PayPal, Perfect Money, Skrill Apple Pay, Bank Transfer, Credit/Debit Card, Crypto, Google Pay, PayPal
Payout Methods Crypto, Riseworks, TC Pay Bank Transfer, Crypto, Riseworks
πŸ“ Instruments and Assets
Type of Instruments CFD CFD
Assets Crypto, Energy, FX, Indices, Metals Crypto, FX, Indices, Metals, Other Commodities
πŸ“ Leverage
Leverage Info Instant
  • FX: 1:30
  • Metals: 1:7.5
  • Indices: 1:5
  • Energy: 1:7.5
  • Crypto: 1:1

1-Step
  • FX: 1:30
  • Metals: 1:10
  • Indices: 1:5
  • Energy: 1:10
  • Crypto: 1:1

2-Steps
  • FX: 1:100
  • Metals: 1:15
  • Indices: 1:15
  • Energy: 1:15
  • Crypto: 1:1
1-Step
  • FX: 1:30
  • Metals: 1:10
  • Indices: 1:7.5
  • Crypto: 1:0.6
  • Other Commodities: 1:5

2-Steps
  • FX: 1:100
  • Metals: 1:15
  • Indices: 1:25
  • Crypto: 1:2
  • Other Commodities: 1:5

3-Steps
  • FX: 1:30
  • Metals: 1:10
  • Indices: 1:7.5
  • Crypto: 1:0.6
  • Other Commodities: 1:5
πŸ“ Commissions
Commission Info
  • FX: Stellar 1-Step & Stellar 2 Step: $5/Lot | Stellar lite & Stellar Instant: $7/lot
  • Metals: Stellar 1-Step & Stellar 2 Step: $5/Lot | Stellar lite & Stellar Instant: $7/lot
  • Indices: $0 commission
  • Energy: Stellar 1-Step & Stellar 2 Step: $5/Lot | Stellar lite & Stellar Instant: $7/lot
  • Crypto: 0.04%/lot across all programs
  • FX: $4 per Standard Lot
  • Metals: Percentage-based commission = (Commission rate/100) Γ— Trade entry price Γ— Contract size Γ— Lot size Γ— 2
  • Indices: No Commissions
  • Crypto: Percentage-based commission = (Commission rate/100) Γ— Trade entry price Γ— Contract size Γ— Lot size Γ— 2
  • Other Commodities: Percentage-based commission = (Commission rate/100) Γ— Trade entry price Γ— Contract size Γ— Lot size Γ— 2
πŸ“ Consistency Rules
Consistency Info None None
πŸ“ Firm Rules
Firm Rules Info Consistency Rule
  • No Consistency rule for all program
Copy Trading
  • Copy Trading is allowed between FN challenge accounts only and not on a funded account phase.
  • Total capital across all copy trading accounts must not exceed $300K.
  • The use of cloud-based third-party copier services like Social Trader Tools, Traders Connect, and Duplikum is prohibited.
  • Copy trading is strictly prohibited between FundedNext accounts and any other accounts (prop firms, personal) manual or software-based. Only VPS-based copiers are allowed, and only between your own FundedNext Challenge Accounts.
EA's
  • EA's are allowed, only works on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.
  • EA must be customized to suit your trading style, Identical trades across accounts are not allowed.
  • Switching Between EA and manual trading is not allowed.
Minimum Trading Days
FundedNext's minimum trading day requirements vary by challenge type:
  • Stellar Lite, and Stellar 2-Step Challenges: Require a minimum of 5 trading days.
  • Stellar 1-Step Challenge: Requires a minimum of 2 trading days.
  • For FundedNext Accounts, there is no minimum trading day requirement for Stellar Lite, Stellar 1-Step, and Stellar 2-Step challenges.
  • Stellar Instant: No minimum days.
News Trading
  • Allowed: Stellar Instant, Stellar, Stellar Lite accounts. With restriction (Trades executed 5 minutes before and after a High Impact News event are subject to a 40% news profit split rule.)
Inactivity Rules
  • To avoid the account inactivity period, traders can simply login to their account at least once or execute a single trade within a period of 30 consecutive days.
Maximum Risk at a Time | Funded Accounts Only
  • Funded accounts are expected to follow a 3% risk-per-trade guideline, where risk is the maximum potential loss on a trade based on stop loss placement (no stop-loss within 3 minutes counts as 100% risk).
  • Breaking the guideline leads to profit reductions (50% on first violation, 100% on second) and eventually placement into the Disciplined Trader Program on the third violation.
Key Rules
  • You must use the same trading strategy and method (manual or EA) during both the Challenge and Funded Account. Switching between them is not allowed.
  • You cannot change asset classes or significantly increase risk/margin usage after passing the Challenge. Your trading style must remain consistent.
  • Traders flagged for risky behavior must risk no more than 1% per trade across all positions, use stop-losses, and follow disciplined risk management, violations may lead to account termination and profit deductions.
  • Use a single device with a unique IP address to avoid complications.
  • Account rolling is strictly prohibited, buying multiple evaluations to sacrifice some while passing others is considered a high-risk, luck-based tactic that violates FundedNext’s principles of skill and responsible trading. Violations may lead to restrictions on new purchases or lifetime allocation limits.
News Trading
  • Hyper-Growth and Bootcamp: Allowed except for bracket strategies around news.
  • High Stakes: Executing orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is prohibited.
Copy Trading
  • Allowed for High Stakes and Hyper-Growth with limitations.
  • Once a trader has more than $500K under management , taking the same trades across accounts is no longer possible.
  • Copy trading from an external account is allowed only if the account belongs to the same trader.
  • Third-party copy trading is not allowed .
  • Copy trading is not allowed between two Bootcamp accounts.
  • The5ers' partnership with Prop Firm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to The5ers' internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching The5ers' core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com .
Expert Advisors (EAs)
  • Allowed as long as they comply with the terms and conditions:
  • The EA must set a Stop Loss (SL) order on every position.
  • The EA must not:Copy trades from other persons' signals.
  • Perform tick scalping.
  • Perform latency arbitrage trading.
  • Perform reverse arbitrage trading.
  • Perform hedge arbitrage trading.
  • Use emulators.
Any accounts found using EAs that violate these rules will be canceled, banned, and not refunded. This applies to all programs, including Bootcamp and Instant Funding (Hyper Growth)..
High Stakes Program
  • Requires a **minimum of 3 profitable days.
  • A profitable day is a day where closed positions generate at least 0.5% of the initial balance.
Bootcamp Rules
  • A stop-loss is mandatory for all positions and orders and must be set within 3 minutes of placement.
  • Stop-loss (SL) is required for all positions and orders.
  • SL must not risk more than 2% of the account balance per position.
  • 3% daily pause ("soft breach") applies during the funded stage.
  • Opening a position without an SL order, or risking more than 2% of the account balance in a single position, will be considered a risk violation. 5 risk violations will lead to automatic account termination
Prohibited Practices
  • One-sided bets: Taking consistent positions in a single direction without considering market conditions.
  • Exploitation of price discrepancies (arbitrage).
  • Trading bracket strategies by placing pending orders around high-impact news.
  • Exploiting system errors , such as price display inaccuracies or update delays.
Inactivity Rule
  • Accounts without new orders for more than 30 consecutive calendar days will expire.
πŸ“ Payout Policy
Payout Policy Info Stellar 1-step
  • Every 5 days.
Stellar 2-Step
  • First payout is 21days, then 14days.
Stellar Lite
  • First payout is 21 days, then 14 days.
Stellar Instant
  • On demand (available anytime if you hit 5% and above, you can request withdrawal immediately).
Bi-Weekly (If your profit is less than 5%, you can only make a withdrawal after 14 14days.
Important Note:
  • If payout is below $20, you can't withdraw.
Payout Limit for each Payout Method
USDT (TRC20):
  • Lowest Payout Amount: $20
  • Highest Payout Amount: $1,999
USDT (ERC20) and USDC (ERC20):
  • Lowest Payout Amount: $50
  • Highest Payout Amount: $1,999
RiseWorks:
  • Lowest Payout Amount: $50
  • Highest Payout Amount: No Limits
Payout Limits for TC Pay:
  • Lowest Payout Amount: $20
  • Highest Payout Amount: $5,000
For the Bootcamp and Hyper-Growth programs
  • Traders start with a 50% profit split, but they can quickly grow that to 75% already by the next stage in the scale-up plan. Traders can scale up the profit split to 100%.
High Stakes program
  • Traders start with an 80% profit split and can also scale that up to 100%.
Payout Frequency
  • Traders have the possibility to withdraw their profits on a bi-weekly basis.
  • The minimum amount eligible for withdrawal is $150, after the profit split has been applied.
Commission Percentage on payouts :
  • Rise and Cryptocurrencies - 2%
  • Bank Transfers - 3%
  • HUB Credits - No commission percentage
Full details about the scaling plan and profit split can be found via this link: https://help.the5ers.com/how-much-is-the-profit-split-in-the5ers/
πŸ“ Restricted Countries
Countries List American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belize, Bouvet Island, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Cook Islands, Eritrea, Fiji, Grenada, Malaysia, North Korea, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tuvalu, United States of America, Vietnam Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Crimea (Region of Ukraine), Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Free State), Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen

Observed Promotional Activity

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FundedNext

An active promotion was observed as of Jun 15, 2026.

2 Minimum Trading Days

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The5ers

An active promotion was observed as of Jun 13, 2026.

Only $12

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