Futures
The5ers Swing
$50,000 account
Selected public offer only. Buyer eligibility and other variants are outside this comparison.
Sources checked 19 September – 24 October 2026. Reviewed by a site member and AI assistants. Release pfw-release-2026-10-24-pilot-2, approved 24 October 2026. Each source shows the date it was last checked.
Costs
List price
List price: $120 one-time
Conditions and limits. $120 one-time, refunded with the third payout. No activation fee.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 23 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: General rules (checked 9 October 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base price of the selected account and how it is billed. A temporary public offer, available without a code, is shown beside it with any conditions the firm states, while a recent check confirms it; codes, optional purchases and unverified buyer charges are excluded.
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Read the guide: What are you buying when you pay for a challenge?
Fee per $1,000 of opening risk
Fee per $1,000 of opening risk: $60.00
Conditions and limits. The base price is confirmed. Buying requires a login, so taxes or payment charges have not been verified.
How this is calculated. (List price × charges in a 30-day attempt + activation fee + platform and data fees), in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance and multiplied by 1,000.
- List price
- $120 one-time
- Charges in a 30-day attempt
- 1
- Activation fee
- None
- Platform and data fees
- None
- Opening loss allowance
- $2,000
- Result
- $60.00
Promotions, coupons and optional add-ons are excluded.
Final buyer charges such as taxes or payment fees are not verified.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 23 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: General rules (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Maximum drawdown (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base cost of a 30-day attempt in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance and multiplied by 1,000. A cost scenario for comparing accounts, not an all-in price.
Activation fee
Activation fee: None
Official source: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. A mandatory charge to activate a funded account after passing, if any.
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Read the guide: Reserve activation costs and keep refunds conditional
Platform and data fees
Platform and data fees: None
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: General rules (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Mandatory platform or market-data charges on top of the list price, if any.
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Read the guide: What market data is included, and what costs extra?
Payout processing fees
Payout processing fees: Cash payout methods carry a 3.5% fee. Hub credit has no fee but cannot be cashed out.
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Supported payout methods (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Charges deducted when a payout is sent, which depend on the payment method.
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Read the guide: How do payout processing fees affect cash received?
Evaluation & risk
Opening loss allowance
Opening loss allowance: $2,000
How this is calculated. Opening balance minus the opening total-loss floor.
- opening balance
- $50,000
- opening total-loss floor
- $48,000
- Result
- $2,000
Daily loss limits and any trailing of the floor after the opening are separate rules.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Maximum drawdown (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. How much the account can lose from its opening balance before the total-loss rule is broken, using the smallest allowance across the required evaluation phases. An account bought without an evaluation uses its funded account's allowance. It is not daily headroom, live capital or a pass probability.
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Read the guide: How do you calculate the opening loss allowance?
Difficulty ratio
Difficulty ratio: 1.50
How this is calculated. For each required evaluation phase, the profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance. The results are added.
- profit target
- 6% of $50,000 = $3,000
- opening loss allowance
- $2,000
- Result
- 1.50
This describes the shape of the evaluation; it is not a pass probability.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Maximum drawdown (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Each required phase's profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance, added together. More target per dollar of allowed loss gives a higher number; an account bought without an evaluation has no target, so its ratio is 0. It describes the shape of the evaluation, not the chance of passing.
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Evaluation route
Evaluation route: The Swing plan (not Day Trade). One evaluation, then the funded stage.
Official source: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. The exact variant compared here and the stages between purchase and a funded account.
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Read the guide: What do one-step, two-step, three-step, and instant funding mean?
Profit targets
Profit targets: 6%
Conditions and limits. 6% ($3,000). The best trade must be under 40% of total profit.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Maximum drawdown (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. The profit each required evaluation phase must reach, as a share of the opening balance. An account bought without an evaluation has none.
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Read the guide: How does the journey from purchase to payout work?
Loss mechanics
Loss mechanics: Maximum loss 4%, measured from the highest midnight balance or equity: the opening floor is $48,000.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Maximum drawdown (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. How the maximum loss limit is set and how it trails or locks as the account grows.
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Read the guide: How do static, EOD, and intraday overall max loss differ?
Minimum days and time limits
Minimum days and time limits: No time limit, and the evaluation can be passed in one trading day, subject to the 40% consistency rule. An evaluation account with no trade for 14 calendar days is terminated.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Evaluation time limit (checked 15 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Passing the evaluation in one day (checked 15 October 2026).
About this rule. The minimum number of trading or profitable days each evaluation phase requires, including any minimum the firm states a consistency rule sets, any time limit for passing, and any inactivity period after which the account is closed.
Daily loss and contract limits
Daily loss and contract limits: No daily loss limit: only the 4% maximum loss applies. It is measured from the highest midnight balance or equity, so it moves up at the end of a day and never down. Up to 4 minis or 40 micros. Up to 1 mini or 10 micros may be held overnight. Both limits are the same in the evaluation and the funded stage.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 10 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: General rules (checked 10 October 2026).
About this rule. Two limits: any daily loss limit, and the most contracts the account may hold at once, counting minis and micros as the firm states.
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Read the guide: How do daily-loss rules compare across prop firms?
Read the guide: How does the firm count contracts toward the limit?
Payouts
First and later payouts
First and later payouts: A payout once the funded account is at least 14 days old, then every 14 days; scaling restarts the cycle.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: What do I need for a withdrawal? (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Supported payout methods (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. When the first payout can be requested and how often later requests are allowed. Waiting periods, qualifying days, review and payment are separate clocks.
Payout minimums and caps
Payout minimums and caps: A payout needs at least 4% profit on the initial balance ($2,000). Each payout is capped at 3% of the initial balance ($1,500).
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Payout caps (checked 20 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: What do I need for a withdrawal? (checked 10 October 2026).
About this rule. The smallest request allowed and any limit on how much can be withdrawn per request or cycle.
Funded consistency rules
Funded consistency rules: The best trade's share of total profit is limited to 40%; above it, keep trading until the share comes down.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: What is the consistency rule? (checked 10 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Consistency rule (checked 10 October 2026).
About this rule. Rules on how profit must be spread across days or trades before a funded payout, and any required profitable days.
After a payout
After a payout: After each payout, the loss limit resets to 4% below the new balance.
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Drawdown after a payout (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. What changes on the account after a payout, such as how the loss limit resets or when the account closes.
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Read the guide: How do actual programs handle the post-payout threshold?
Published processing time
Published processing time: No futures-specific processing time is published. The CFD estimates are not assumed to apply.Partly unknown
Partly unknown. Part of this rule is not established by the firm's published material. The known parts are shown; the rest is left open rather than guessed.
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Supported payout methods (checked 7 October 2026).
About this rule. How long the firm says review and payment take after a request. These are published estimates, not measured times.
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Read the guide: What do “24-hour,” “instant,” and “on-demand” payouts mean?
Refunds
Fee refund with a reward
Fee refund with a reward: The fee is refunded in full with the third payout, added to the account's equity.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures programs and pricing (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Evaluation fee refund (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether and when the challenge fee is paid back after a successful payout.
Cancellation refund
Cancellation refund: The5ers' refund policy for its evaluation programs, published for futures too: within 5 days of purchase and before any trade, the fee can be refunded; after 5 days, only as Hub credit.
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Cancellation and refund policy (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether a purchase can be cancelled and refunded, and on what conditions.
Trading rules
News and overnight holding
News and overnight holding: News trading is allowed. Up to 1 mini or 10 micros may be held overnight; larger positions must close 10 minutes before the market close, and nothing may be held over the weekend.News trading: allowed in both stages.Overnight and weekend holding: restricted in both stages.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Can I trade during the news? (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Overnight holding (checked 6 October 2026).
News trading by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Allowed.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Can I trade during the news? (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: General rules (checked 6 October 2026).
Overnight and weekend holding by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. Up to 1 mini or 10 micros may be held overnight; larger positions must close at least 10 minutes before the market close. Nothing may be held over the weekend.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Overnight holding (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Contracts held overnight (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Restrictions around scheduled news and whether positions can be held past the session close.
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Read the guide: How do futures programs handle session-to-session holding?
Expert advisors and copying
Expert advisors and copying: Algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading and hedging are not allowed. You may copy your own trades between your own 25K and 50K accounts, up to $75,000 in total.Expert advisors: prohibited in both stages.Copying your own trades: restricted in both stages.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: High-frequency, algorithmic trading and hedging (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Copy trading between your accounts (checked 6 October 2026).
Expert advisors by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Prohibited. Algorithmic and high-frequency trading are forbidden; a trader found using them is banned.
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: High-frequency, algorithmic trading and hedging (checked 6 October 2026).
Copying your own trades by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. Only your own trades, between your own 25K and 50K accounts, up to $75,000 in total.
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Copy trading between your accounts (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether automated strategies are allowed and whether trades can be copied between your own accounts.
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Read the guide: Automation and copying: what actually needs permission?
Platforms & eligibility
Platforms
Platforms: BlackArrow only.
Official source: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Trading platform (checked 3 October 2026).
About this rule. The platforms the firm offers in this market, with any extra charge or country limit it states. It is the firm's list for all its accounts in the market.
Platform access and eligibility
Platform access and eligibility: BlackArrow is the only platform. Open to anyone over 18, outside the countries The5ers lists.
Official sources: The5ers · Futures FAQ: Trading platform (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Futures FAQ: Who can join? (checked 6 October 2026); The5ers · Terms and conditions (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Who can buy the account: age, identity checks and country restrictions, and any platform limits by country.
Ratings
Not rated. Overall program scores and reliability ratings are not published yet; the figures above are measurements of stated terms, not a verdict.