The5ers Challenge Simulator

Rules as published on the5ers.com, checked 21 October 2026. Prop firms revise rules often — confirm on their site before you buy; the source for each program is in the fine print below. Account sizes offered: $3k, $5k, $10k, $20k, $25k, $50k, $100k.

The same trader passes one firm's challenge far more often than another's, and the difference is the rules, not the trader. To isolate it, each program below was run through the CRTLAB challenge simulator for three traders: a break-even one (50% wins at 1:1 — zero edge, so any pass is the rules' slack plus luck), a small edge (45% at 1:1.5) and a solid edge (45% at 1:2).

Of The5ers's 3 programs, Hyper Growth leaves a break-even trader the most room (31.7% pass) and High Stakes the least (22.2%).

Simulated: $100k account, 1% risk per trade, 2 trades a day, 60 trading days or the program's own limit; multi-phase programs multiply each phase's pass rate. Min-day and consistency rules are not simulated. Run your own numbers in the prop firm challenge calculator.

On Hyper Growth the target (10%) is 1.7× the room you have to lose (6%). That gap is the whole difficulty: a trader has to make 1.7 units for every unit they can afford to give back, so a cold streak early in the phase ends more attempts than a lack of edge does.

The max loss is static, measured from the starting balance — the most forgiving kind. Profit you bank widens your room rather than dragging the floor up behind you.

There is no daily loss limit in the evaluation, so the max loss is the only floor — one undisciplined day can use all of it.

In simulation, a trader with a small edge (45% wins at 1:1.5, 1% risk) fails 30.8% of phase-one attempts on the max loss; the ones who pass take a median of 18 trading days.

The button opens CRTLAB with prop firm mode running on The5ers's Hyper Growth rules. The chart's HUD carries your progress to target, the distance to the max loss and the daily floor, and it calls the verdict — passed, phase two, or breached — the moment a rule is hit, exactly as the firm's dashboard would. Every The5ers program and account size is one click away in the rules panel, and so are the other 98 firms in the catalogue.

What makes it a rehearsal rather than a demo account: you replay real historical data, candle by candle, on any of 38 markets from 1-minute to weekly, and you can do in an evening what a live challenge takes a month to show you. Run the same week three times with three different risk sizes and watch which one the static floor catches.

There is no account to fund and no time limit on practice — the replay waits for you. When your rehearsals pass consistently, you know the edge survives The5ers's rules before the fee is spent.

Hyper Growth: 3% daily loss only pauses trading for the day. Same 10% target on each doubling; no min days. The5ers's rules page.

Pro Growth: Daily loss ends the account (from higher of balance/equity). Min days = 3 profitable days (>=0.5% closed profit each). The5ers's rules page.

High Stakes: Min days = 3 profitable days per phase. No new orders 2 min around high-impact news. Classic version has slightly different targets. The5ers's rules page.