Five AquaFunded products, one Dubai-style clock
AquaFunded, founded in 2023 and based in Dubai, sells 1-Step, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, Instant Funding, and Aqua Futures. Standard is the blueprint most FX and gold traders should buy: 5% daily, static 10% maximum loss from initial balance, 8% then 5% targets, three minimum trading days, and a $398 fee on $100K. Pro keeps the same targets and compresses the static floor to 8%, which is a cheaper-feeling slider with less air. 1-Step uses 4% daily and a trailing 6% max. Instant Funding skips the two-phase exam and adds a 40% best-day consistency rule on rapid payout tiers.
Payouts start 14 days after funding, or 7 days on the faster cycle, and AquaFunded advertises a 24-hour payout guarantee behind a 90% default split (100% with add-on). That split is the product. The clock is not. Daily loss resets at 00:00 server time (GMT+2 winter, GMT+3 summer) from the higher of day-start balance or equity. You can start a free Venasri account and load Standard 5/10/8/5 as its own profile so a Pro or Instant YouTube recap cannot overwrite the 10% floor you thought you had.
90% split versus the higher-of midnight snapshot
Daily loss on 2-Step Standard is 5% ($5,000 on $100K). The anchor is the higher of closed day-start balance or live equity at 00:00. If you ride +$3,100 of XAUUSD into the snapshot, Tuesday's floor is computed from $103,100, not $100,000. Give that float back after midnight and you can spend most of a 5% day while the closed ledger still looks green. Maximum loss on Standard stays static at 10% ($90,000 floor). Pro's static 8% ($92,000) and 1-Step's trailing 6% are different contracts and should not inherit the Standard card.
Funded news window, weekend holds, and Instant 40%
Evaluation phases are the loose chapter. Funded accounts restrict a 5-minute window before and after red-folder events. Weekend holding is allowed on evaluations and funded books, which is useful only if Equity Guard is already armed into Friday. Instant and selected rapid payout tiers require that no single day contribute more than 40% of cycle profit. A $3,600 gold day on a $8,000 Instant target is already 45% and can stall the 24-hour guarantee even when 5% daily never printed.
Keep per-trade risk at 0.40% to 0.55% ($400 to $550 on $100K). That spacing leaves ten full stop-outs before the Standard daily line and keeps a lumpy gold day under the Instant 40% cap if you flatten runners. 24/7 MT5 Bot Control should black out the funded 5-minute news window and partial large winners 20 to 40 minutes before 00:00 server time so the higher-of snapshot does not recycle a winning float into Tuesday's budget.
Wiring AquaFunded through Venasri before the first fill
Connect the AquaFunded MT5 login through the ZeroMQ bridge so the 3-second equity poll matches the server the firm reads, including swap and commission. Manual Trade Guard attaches a hard Stop-Loss on every discretionary click. AquaFunded does not publish a Bootcamp-style mandatory-SL law, but a naked gold lot into the COMEX reopen is still how the 5% line disappears in one candle. Cap modifications well under 2,000 per day; step a trail in price, not in ticks.
Map three numbers and leave them there: daily flatten 4.25% on Standard (3.25% on 1-Step), max-loss lock 9.0% on Standard (7.25% on Pro, 5.25% on 1-Step), and an Instant consistency alarm at 35% of cycle profit. Those three locks are the AquaFunded blueprint. The 90% split and the 24-hour guarantee are what you collect after the snapshot stops winning arguments with your float.
