One lot is $10 per 0.10 and $100 per $1
XAUUSD at one standard lot is 100 troy ounces. A 0.10 move, the usual pip, is $10. A full dollar of price is $100. A 50-pip stop at 0.80 lots is $400. A 70-pip stop at 1.45 lots is $1,015. Both sit inside the band that keeps one wick from eating a $5,000 day. A 2.00 lot position with that 70-pip stop is $1,400, and a slip to 120 pips is $2,400, almost half the day.
Average gold days often travel hundreds of pips, on the order of a $28 to $45 price range. Your stop is a slice of that range, not the range itself. Bot controls should refuse a gold ticket whose pip math prints above the unit you stored, even when the lot looks familiar.
The open wick is the trade you size for, not the trade you chase
The COMEX bell and the London-New York overlap are when gold actually moves. A stop placed inside the first whip gets the worst fill of the day and still counts in full against the 5% line. Wait until the opening stab has printed, then use the 50 to 70 pip structure that is already on the chart. If the structure is 110 pips away, the lot has to fall. Do not keep 1.45 lots and hope the extra distance is decorative.
Funded accounts also sit out 5 minutes before and after red-folder releases. CPI through a gold stop is the most expensive version of a legal-looking ticket. Be flat into that window. Create a Venasri login and treat the news block as part of the gold plan, not as a separate memo.
Pro and the 1-step have less gold room than Standard
Standard maximum loss is a static $10,000. Pro is a static $8,000. The 1-step day is $4,000 with a trailing $6,000 maximum. A $1,015 gold loss is a fifth of Standard day and a quarter of the 1-step day. Two of them on the 1-step are the session. The band of 0.80 to 1.45 lots was drawn against a 5% day. Shrink it when the day is 4%.
Instant and rapid tiers add a 40% best-day cap. A clean gold expansion at 1.45 lots can be the day that owns the cycle. The same ticket that survives the loss line can fail the payout. Session-profit has to have a ceiling on those tiers. Half of 1%, about $500, is a calmer gold unit than the top of the band if you need room for a second attempt.
Flatten the book and do not donate the winner to midnight
Equity Guard should flatten a $100,000 2-step near $4,250 so the $1,015 idea is never asked to save the account by itself. The 1-step flatten belongs near $3,250. Weekend holding is allowed, and gold gaps on Sunday. A 1.45 lot position that is $2,000 in profit at 00:00 can reset the next day from that equity. Partial it. The pip value does not shrink because the platform is closed.
