Why $500 is not the number that fails first
The floor is $500, 10% of $5,000. The day is $250, 5%. You meet the day at half the lifetime room. Risk is $25, 0.50%. The higher-of rule at 00:00 ACG Markets time, GMT+2 or GMT+3, rebuilds that $250 from equity if equity is higher. A $25 float at midnight is one full unit of open profit and it changes the base.
Open a Venasri account named for this $5K Pro card. Alpha One on $5K would be a 4% day, $200, and a 6% trail, $300. This page is the 10% static card. A $250 guard copied from a blog about the floor will be late for the day and early for nothing.
Phase 1 takes sixteen units
Sixteen winners at $25 sum to $400. Ten winners sum to $250, which is only part of Phase 1 and all of Phase 2. Three minimum trading days mean the $400 has to be spread. One day that makes $160 is already 40% of a $400 cycle, which matters later if you want on-demand. The 14-calendar-day path at 80% does not use that test.
Equity Guard at 4.25% of $5,000 is $212.50, under the $250 day, if you are scaling the Pro pass buffer onto this balance. Do not use a $4,250 figure from a $100K article. The percent travels. The dollars do not.
Small balance, full rulebook
Weekend holds are allowed on Pro and Swing. A Sunday gap counts toward $250. That is ten units. There is no 'small gap' on this account. Funded Pro still has a 2-minute news window. A slipped stop counts. The 25-lot example is a $100K illustration. On $5K you should be nowhere near a lot count that looks like that, because $25 of risk on a normal stop is a tiny position.
Bot Control should refuse a second $25 idea until the first is closed. Two open units are $50, a fifth of the day. A 2x revenge ticket is $50, and five of them are the day. The band of 0.35% to 0.65% is $17.50 to $32.50 here. The plan's $25 sits inside it.
Payouts on a $5K funded book
The split is 80%. First cycle is every 14 calendar days, or on demand inside 40%. Forty percent of $400 is $160. The fee people quote, $497, is the $100K price, not this account's invoice. Do not size as if you had paid $497 of risk budget. You paid for a $5K exam whose day is $250.
The static floor stays at $4,500 equity. It will not be the headline if you keep $25 units. The headline will be the day, the news window, or a duration fail from trades under 2 minutes. Those rules do not shrink just because the balance did.
