One micro fits, one full contract does not
Daily loss is 2.5%, $625. The trail starts at 3%, $750. Phase target is 6%, $1,500, with a 0% second target and 7 minimum days. Equity Guard at 1.75% is about $438. MNQ at $2 per point makes a 60-point stop $120 and a 100-point stop $200. Two micros at 60 points are $240. One NQ at 60 points is $1,200, which is larger than the $625 day. Full contracts wait for a much larger balance.
A 5:1 rule means the 60-point stop needs at least 12 points of target, and the 100-point stop needs 20. Manual Trade Guard can lock those distances on an MT5 rehearsal. On the futures ticket you place them at the fill. Equity Guard should read about $438, not the $1,750 figure from a $100K card.
The trail is $750 until a spike spends it
A +$400 open push that fades to +$50 walks the floor up by the peak. You can still be green and have used a large share of $750. Partials exist so the peak and the exit are close. The PA lock is the initial balance plus $100, $25,100 here. That is a small step relative to a $750 trail, so the lock is less dominating than on a $5K account and the intraday path still matters.
Thirty percent of a $1,500 target is $450. A $500 winning day is fine against a $625 loss limit and too large for the payout share. Stop near $400 on green days. On red days stop near $438 even if you "only" planned one more $125 idea. Two open $125 ideas are $250. Three are $375. The fourth open idea is how the guard and the trail meet.
A seven-day path at one micro
Six 2R winners at $125 are $1,500. Expect 10 to 16 trades. One MNQ a day, flat by 4:50 PM ET, is a complete week. Adding US30 on the same 13:30 UTC candle is a second $120 if the stop is 60 points on a micro Dow of similar dollar risk. Pick one index. Gold, if you use MGC, is one contract per $10 of stop distance to risk about $10 per $1. A $12 stop is about $120. Do not stack it under the Nasdaq.
Bot Control pauses the MT5 rehearsal after a loss and holds the flat time. Semi-automated help may place the futures stop. Unattended bots may not run the PA. The 30% per-trade loss cap on PA accounts is easy to hit if you let one NQ stop print $1,200. Stay on the micro.
Write the contract count before the open
The card is one MNQ, 60 points, about $120, day $625, trail $750, flatten $438, flat 4:50 PM ET. If the opening candle is already 140 points, skip it. Seven days means a skip is allowed. A chase is how the $120 plan becomes a $200 plan mid-trade and the 5:1 ratio breaks.
Open a free Venasri account and keep this card off the $10K and $50K logins. The 100% split on the first $25,000 is larger than this whole account, so it is not the goal of this evaluation. The goal is the $1,500 target with the $750 trail still intact. The fee quoted for $100K is $137. Confirm the $25K price on the order form rather than assuming it.
