The5%ers

One company, two registrations, and a curious SIC code

The5%ers names itself plainly, which is more than most: Five Percent Online Ltd, registered in England and Wales as 12553363 and in Israel as 515864007, with addresses in London and Raanana 2. The English company is on the register as active, incorporated 9 April 2020, at Enstar House, 168 Praed Street, London W2 1RH, with accounts made up to 31 December 2024 1.

Its filed classification is SIC 78300: "human resources provision and management of human resources functions" 1. A prop firm registered as a recruitment business. As with Alpha Capital’s IT code there is a defensible reading — a firm whose business is finding and selecting traders is arguably doing exactly that — and it is still the kind of thing a reader is entitled to know before deciding how this company thinks of itself.

The numbers this page had, and the numbers the firm publishes

The5%ers sells four programmes and they differ sharply. High Stakes is the two-step flagship: 8% in step one, 5% in step two, a 5% daily loss that terminates the account, 10% overall, three profitable days per step where a profitable day means at least 0.5% on closed positions, and unlimited time 3. Hyper Growth is one step at 10% with a 6% stop-out and a daily loss that pauses rather than terminates; Bootcamp is three steps at 6% each; Pro Growth is one step at 10% 3.

Our record carried a 6% target, a 4% daily loss and a 6% maximum. That is not any of them. It reads like Hyper Growth’s stop-out bolted onto a target from somewhere else, and the page then labelled it a two-step. The figures now describe High Stakes, and the page says which programme it is scoring.

The split is the one worth dwelling on, because it was the whole headline. This page said 100%. The5%ers does pay 100% — at the top of a progression that begins at 80% on funding and rises with performance 3. The difference between "pays 100%" and "can eventually pay 100%" is the difference between a fact and an advertisement, and we were printing the advertisement.

The news rule, stated precisely

Our record marks news trading as not allowed, which is the right answer to the question a trader is asking and a blunt version of the rule. What the terms say is narrower and worth quoting: "Executing orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is prohibited", with profits made in that window deducted and losses left with the trader 4. A separate clause prohibits bracketing — pending buy and sell stops placed around the price before a release 2.

Four minutes is not a ban on trading the news in the abstract. It is a ban on the only four minutes a news trader cares about, and the asymmetry in the penalty — they keep your gains, you keep your losses — is the part most summaries leave out. Accounts also expire after 30 consecutive days of inactivity in evaluation, 60 when funded 4.