Five clicks and the original plan is gone
The first leak is three or more new trades inside five minutes of a loss. The second is dragging the stop further away so the current ticket does not have to be wrong. The third is editing that stop again before a minute has passed. The fourth is adding to a loser. The fifth is a lot more than twice the size you wrote down when you were calm. Any one of them can be survived. The morning that contains three of them is the breach.
At $500 planned risk, twice the size is $1,000, and more than that is the fifth leak already. Two such losses are $2,000 or more. A third, plus the original loser, is the $5,000 day. Bot controls should refuse the oversized ticket and the rapid cluster instead of asking you how you feel.
AquaFunded gives the tilt a 5% box and a 40% mirror
Standard and Pro share a 5% day. Pro lifetime maximum is $8,000 on $100,000, Standard is $10,000, and the 1-step day is only $4,000. Tilt that was sized for Standard ends the 1-step sooner. Instant and rapid tiers add the mirror image: a revenge winner that becomes 40% of cycle profit can stall the payout after the loss line was spared. The green version of tilt is still a failed week.
Platforms are MT5, Match-Trader, cTrader, and TradeLocker. The leak looks the same on all four. So does the 2,000 message cap. A trader machine-gunning stop edits to avoid accepting a $500 loss can fail the message review without printing $5,000. Sign up on Venasri so the refusal happens on the order, not in the post-mortem.
Gold makes every leak more expensive per click
One standard gold lot is $10 per 0.10 and $100 per $1. A stop you widen by another $5 of price, which is 50 pips, adds $500 at one lot and $1,000 at two. Averaging a second lot because the first one is red doubles a position that was already the whole unit. The chart looks like one idea. The cash is two.
NAS100 does the same job with points. Adding lots during the 13:30 UTC whip is how a 40-point scratch becomes a 90-point problem at twice the size. Wait for the candle you were supposed to wait for. The next click after a loss is not a new signal unless the clock and the size both say so.
The flatten does not negotiate with the third ticket
Equity Guard on a $100,000 2-step should flatten near $4,250, before the cluster spends the last $750. On the 1-step use about $3,250. Once the flatten fires, new risk stays off for the session. Re-entering because the flatten felt early is the first leak again, one layer up.
The day resets at 00:00, GMT+2 or GMT+3, from the higher of balance or equity. Tilt that holds a mashed-up position through that clock exports the damage into tomorrow at a worse anchor. Flat is a complete sentence. The $8,000 Phase 1 target will still be available in a later session that starts at $500.
