The funded trail starts following the high
The test uses an end-of-day trail and a hard $2,200 daily loss, with a maximum near $3,000. PRO switches that trail to intraday until the buffer is built. A pullback that was legal at the close during the test can end the funded account in the middle of the session. FundingPips Standard does not do this. Its maximum stays a static $10,000, and the day stays $5,000, reset from the higher of balance or equity at 00:00 UTC+3.
You must be flat by 5:00 PM ET. There is no Friday swing. FundingPips can hold the weekend on selected models and then face the midnight float. A runner you learned to keep in Dubai is a rule break on PRO before the intraday trail even moves.
Half of $6,000 is $3,000, and PRO deletes that ceiling
The test target is $6,000 across five days, and the largest day cannot exceed half the profit during the test. A $3,200 session can force more work even though the $2,200 loss line was never the subject. On PRO the consistency rule drops, and daily withdrawals can start once the buffer is cleared, at 80% or at 90% on PRO+. FundingPips targets $8,000 then $5,000 and pays from 60% on Tuesday up to 100% monthly.
The $189 fee gap is real. The buffer you must clear before the daily withdrawal is the number people leave out when they compare $210 with $399. Create a Venasri login and put the buffer on the PRO card the day the test passes, because that is the day the trail changes personality.
One minute around CPI, on a platform that is not MT5
PRO cannot trade one minute before or after FOMC, NFP, and CPI. FundingPips uses five minutes on the funded stage. Semi-automated futures tools are allowed. Unattended high-frequency bots are not. The platforms are NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, and Rithmic.
Bot controls attach to the FundingPips MT5 login, where a full entry bot also needs source ownership inside 2,000 requests. They will not place the NQ order, and they should still be armed so the Dubai book does not revenge-trade after the 5:00 PM ET flatten. Four $500 NQ losses are $2,000 of the $2,200 day. The same four losses are a bad morning in Dubai with $3,000 of day still unused.
Flatten the futures day near $1,800
Equity Guard on Take Profit Trader should flatten near $1,800, and on PRO it should also watch the intraday trail from the latest high. A guard that only knows the test's end-of-day rule will sit quiet while the funded floor ratchets. FundingPips flattens near $4,250 and needs a partial before UTC+3 if open profit is in the thousands.
If the test day approaches $2,500 of profit against a $6,000 target, stop. You are near the 50% ceiling. PRO removes that ceiling and replaces it with the intraday trail. The pass is the moment to get smaller and more mechanical, not the moment to size up because the consistency rule left.
