Three 0.5% days versus a sub-2-minute profit majority rule
High Stakes: 5%/10%, 8%/5%, three days plus three 0.5% greens, $495, MT5 only. Alpha Pro: 5%/10%, 8%/5% or 10%/5%, three days, $497, MT5/cTrader/DXtrade. Fees tie. If you bought Alpha 10%/5% Pro, the hurdle is harder than High Stakes 8%/5%. If you bought 8%/5% Pro, hurdles match and the remaining fight is duration versus doubling. Alpha One 4%/6% EOD trail is not Pro. Hyper Growth 3%/6% is not High Stakes.
ACG and MT5 midnights both sit on GMT+2/GMT+3 families and can still be different servers. A held winner can reprice one book before the other. Two flatten alarms, even when the formula looks like a clone.
Raw ACG tape versus an MT5 doubling file
Alpha: zero-commission raw spreads, funded lot cap, 2,000 messages, no grids/martingale/tick scalps, Pro funded 2-minute news, Swing SKU relaxes news, weekends on Pro/Swing, bi-weekly or on-demand with 40%. The5ers: institutional MT5, news holds with 2-minute no-new-order, weekends on, no published 25-lot cap, doubling and salary, bi-weekly, copy-trading across users banned. Short gold bursts fail Alpha. Missing 0.5% days fail The5ers. Both fail overnight float at their own 00:00.
cTrader and DXtrade exist only on Alpha in this pair. MT5 doubling exists only on The5ers. If you need both, you need two accounts and two Guards, not a compromise SKU that does not exist.
Who should sit London raw, and who should sit Raanana doubling
Pick Alpha Pro 8%/5% if raw ACG, minutes-to-hours holds, and a lot you will cap are the brief. Pick The5ers High Stakes if 0.5% days and doubling on MT5 are the brief. Do not pick Alpha On-Demand if your best day is half the month. Do not pick High Stakes if you need cTrader. Size 0.50% on both 5% dailies, then cap Alpha lots in software before the desk does.
London 2021 versus Raanana 2016 is a heritage edge for The5ers and a tape edge for Alpha. Duration rules are London's identity. 0.5% days are Raanana's. Higher-of midnight is the shared tax. Flatten both winners. Then pick tape versus doubling.
Lot ceiling in London, 0.5% tracker in Raanana
Set Venasri Equity Guard at 4.25% of each higher-of, add an Alpha gross lot ceiling, add a 38% best-day warning if Alpha On-Demand is on, and pre-flatten both at their own midnight above $1,500 float. Journal The5ers 0.5% days so a 4% Monday does not feel like a pass.
Venasri's free prop firm risk guard closes both if either 5% daily is approached. Prefer Alpha for the tape. Prefer The5ers for doubling. The guard's extra job is lot cap plus qualifying-day honesty, not a fake clone of 5%/10%.
