The5ers allows you to copy trades between your own The5ers accounts, within a capital ceiling, and prohibits copying anyone else's. Their EA rules list "Copy trades of other person's signals" as a disqualifying behaviour, require that "the trader must own the source code of the EA", and their terms prohibit automated software owned or developed by anyone other than you.
Read together, that means running a third-party Telegram signal copier on a The5ers account is against their published rules, including ours. I would rather you heard that here than after a payout review. Every quote below is from the5ers.com, checked on 14 September 2026.
Copying your own accounts: allowed, with a ceiling
From can I copy my own trades, last updated 30 July 2026:
Yes, you can copy your own trades across all of your accounts without a violation.
If you have multiple Bootcamp accounts, they will need to be traded with different strategies
The Hyper Growth program adds a cap, per is copy trading allowed in the Hyper Growth program, last updated 30 July 2026:
Yes, copy trading between your own accounts is allowed. However, once your total managed capital reaches $500K across all programs and accounts, copy trading across accounts is no longer permitted.
The ceiling is stated on some program pages and not others, so check the one you bought rather than assuming the general answer covers you.
Copying someone else: prohibited
From prohibited trading practices, last updated 28 July 2026, which states its own scope as "both for our evaluation phases and funded accounts". Two of the listed practices:
Trade coordination or copy trading with other traders or accounts
EA from a third party, where other traders have the same trades open (copy trading)
And the consequence, from the same page:
If your account has been found abusing the system and violating the trading rules, we will terminate the entire relationship between you and the company and/or suspend, block and/or restrict your access to the services for specific functions immediately. Any refund or profit will not be processed, and you will be permanently banned from The5ers Fund.
The EA rule is the one that decides it
From can I use an EA, last updated 22 July 2026:
You can use any EA you have in your trading account, as long as it does not: Copy trades of other person's signals; Do tick scalping; Perform latency arbitrage trading; Perform reverse arbitrage trading; Perform hedge arbitrage trading; Perform High-frequency trading; Use emulators
Additionally, the trader must own the source code of the EA.
The terms and conditions, last updated 16 August 2026, go further:
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company prohibits use of any Automated Trading Software owned or developed by any third party other than the User.
And they add a step almost nobody takes:
User shall notify the Company in writing and obtain written approval from the Company prior to using any Automated Trading Software
The EA FAQ does not mention that approval step, so the two pages answer "can I just switch my automation on?" differently. The terms are the contract.
Three separate clauses land on the same conclusion for a tool like ours: the signals come from another person, the software is not yours, and you have not been approved to run it. Any one of them is enough.
What about a signal copier that is not an EA?
TTMT is not an Expert Advisor. It connects through an API rather than running inside MetaTrader, and no file is installed on the terminal.
I do not think that distinction saves you here, and I am not going to pretend otherwise to sell a subscription. The prohibited-practices page bans "copy trading with other traders or accounts" without reference to how the trades arrive, and the terms ban third-party automated software without reference to where it runs. A rule about the origin of the decision does not care about the transport.
Bulk trading, and why a layered entry looks like it
One more clause is worth knowing even if you are trading manually, from the same prohibited-practices page:
Bulk trading, is when multiple trades are open simultaneously. Situation: A trader opens manually or uses automatic trading tools that open multiple trades at the same time, clearly showing a trader is not behind the strategy activity.
Any copier that splits a signal across an entry zone opens several orders at once. That is a layered entry, it is a legitimate execution technique, and on this rulebook it produces exactly the footprint the clause describes.
The rules you would be configuring against anyway
No MetaTrader 4. Per which trading platform do you use for CFDs, last updated 13 August 2026: "Non-US clients can use MetaTrader 5, cTrader, and TradingView" and "US-based clients can use TradingView". There is no MT4 at The5ers, so an MT4-only tool is out before the rules are even reached. If you are choosing a platform for other reasons, Telegram to MT5 covers the MT5 side.
News, at trigger time. From can I trade during news, last updated 10 August 2026, on High Stakes: "Executing orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is prohibited." And the sentence automation people miss: "the rule applies to the exact moment an order is triggered and executed, not when the pending order was placed." A limit order left sitting in an entry zone can breach this hours after you placed it.
Daily loss and max loss, per program. High Stakes: 5% daily, 10% maximum, with the daily figure "taken from the closing equity or balance of your previous day (the highest between them)" at 00:00 server time. Hyper Growth: a 3% daily pause that closes open trades and disables the account until the next day, and a 6% stop-out that terminates it. Bootcamp funded accounts: 3% daily pause, 4% max loss. Server time is their MT5 server, which their own FAQs define as GMT+2 in winter and GMT+3 in summer.
No mandatory stop loss, per what is a stop loss order, last updated 23 August 2026: "There is no mandatory Stop Loss requirement for any of The5ers programs, including Bootcamp." It must be a visible platform order, though; stealth stops are not allowed.
Bootcamp accounts must differ. "Each account must have a different trading method", which rules out broadcasting one channel into several of them by name.
What to do instead
If you want to follow a Telegram channel on funded capital, pick a firm whose published rules permit third-party execution, and get the answer in writing before you pay for a challenge. FTMO's position is different in shape: no rule on the CFD side names copy trading at all, and the binding constraint there is a capital cap that treats identical strategies as one trader.
If you are already at The5ers and you want automation, the software has to be yours and approved in writing. That is what their terms say, and no vendor gets to reinterpret it for you.
And if you use TTMT on your own live or demo accounts and run a The5ers challenge manually alongside, keep them separate accounts with separate decisions. Do not point a copier at a challenge because nobody has caught it yet.
The general map of what prop rules cover, across firms, is in running an automated copier on a prop firm challenge.
Checked on 14 September 2026 against the5ers.com. Not legal advice and not a compliance opinion. The5ers decides what The5ers permits, their pages change, and the current version governs.
