FuturesElite vs The5ers Futures

Prime: $600, $1,200, $1,800 or $2,700 measured from the higher of balance and equity at the previous daily close; hitting it is a soft breach that locks the account for 24 hours. Elite: none by default, or the same soft lock on any size if chosen at checkout, applying in the evaluation and once funded. None on Nitro and Instant.

2.5% daily drawdown on 100K and 150K accounts (Day Trade and Swing); reaching it permanently terminates the account. None on 25K and 50K.

End of day trailing on Elite, Prime and Instant, locking at the starting balance once enough profit is made (Elite 25K: at the starting balance once $1,000 profit is made; Elite 50K to 150K: the floor locks at $100 above the start). Nitro: end of day trailing in the evaluation, intraday trailing on equity when funded until it locks $100 above the starting balance. Limits $1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K; $1,800 on Instant), $3,000 (100K), $4,500 (150K).

4% trailing, calculated from the highest midnight (end of day) balance or equity, in both evaluation and funded stages. No lock level stated.

Evaluation: Elite 3 with the 40% consistency option or 2 with the 50% option; Nitro 2 on 25K and none on larger sizes; Prime none. Funded payouts: Elite 6 profitable days of at least $100 to $350 depending on size; Prime 3 on 25K only; Nitro 1; Instant 10. Trades held 10 seconds or less, or making $20 or less net profit per contract ($2 on micros), are classed as scalping; in evaluations scalp profit above 50% of the target holds the upgrade for manual review.

None to pass. Accounts with no trade for 29 days are terminated; Instant accounts bought after 23 November 2025 need a trade at least every 7 days.

Tier 1 news (employment reports, CPI, EIA and key agricultural reports) allowed in evaluations. On funded accounts, trades in a restricted news window are voided rather than breached. Not allowed on Nitro Sim Funded accounts. Straddles and strangles around news prohibited.

No overnight or weekend holding; all positions are closed automatically at 4:55 PM EST. Live accounts must be flat 15 minutes before the close.

Day Trade: no overnight holding; close all positions and orders at least 10 minutes before the market close. Swing: overnight holding of 1 mini or 10 micros (25K, 50K), 2 minis (100K), 3 minis (150K). No weekend holding on either program.

Fully automated AI or bot trading and HFT prohibited. Martingale and grid allowed; DCA allowed if not the primary strategy. An in house copier can mirror trades across the trader's own accounts; VPS, VPN or trade copier use must be declared to support. Hedging across accounts, users or firms prohibited. One trader per household.

High frequency trading, algorithmic trading and hedging are forbidden. Copy trading only between the trader's own 25K and 50K accounts, up to $75,000 in total.

Elite: 40% or 50% in the evaluation, chosen at checkout on every size, none once funded. Prime: none in the evaluation, 40% when funded. Nitro: 50% in the evaluation, none funded. Instant: 20% for the first payout, 25% for the second and 30% from the third. Breaking it delays a pass or payout rather than breaching the account.

Per position: the best single trade must be less than 40% of total profit to qualify for a payout or scale up (evaluation and funded).

KYC through Veriff before the funded upgrade; approval in about 24 hours on average (reviews take 24 to 72 working hours), with approved payouts credited as Elite Credits. Elite: 50% of account profit up to the cap after 6 qualifying days. Prime and Nitro: a buffer of the maximum loss plus $100 must be built and can never be withdrawn. Instant: first payout profit goal of $1,750 to $10,000. AML rules may route part of a payout back to the purchase payment method.

Funded account at least 14 days old with 4% profit on the initial balance. Caps per payout: $1,250 on 25K; 3% of initial balance on 50K to 150K (e.g. $3,000 on 100K). Evaluation fee refunded on the third payout.

Elite: after every 6 qualifying profitable days. Nitro: every 24 hours once $500 is withdrawable above the buffer. Prime and Instant: once the buffer or profit goal, consistency and minimum days are met.

Rise (3.5% commission), Crypto (3.5% commission), Bank transfer (3.5% commission), Hub credits (no commission, non withdrawable, for program purchases only)

Not applicable; contract limits Elite 2, 4, 8 and 12; Prime 2, 4, 6 and 10 minis (or 10 micros per mini); Nitro 2, 5, 8 and 10; Instant 4, 4, 8 and 12 (25K to 150K).

No account size scaling. Elite funded accounts use contract scaling (for example 50K: 2 contracts below $2,500 profit, 4 from $3,500). Prime and Instant have full contract limits from day one. The 4th consecutive successful Elite payout is the usual path to a live account, at the discretion of the Risk Team; a Nitro account moves to live when one day's profit reaches $4,000 to $10,000 by size, with profit above that cap forfeited.

Each 10% profit milestone (with consistency met and positions closed) triggers a risk review and a new account with 5% more balance plus the trader's 80% share of profit, and one more mini (10 micros) in contract limits, up to $500,000.