Sixty-two dollars a day is the smooth version of $1,250
Twenty sessions times $62.50 is $1,250. One winner at the $125 unit, paid at 1R, covers two of those sessions. You do not need a trade every day, and you do need the day count. Daily loss resets at 00:00 on live equity and is the same $1,250 as the target. Using the target as a loss budget means one red day erases the entire first goal and half of the $2,500 stage hole.
A second 5% mark is another $1,250. Start on Venasri with both marks written down only if your path actually has two of them. The 1-step and 2-step loss lines here are both 5% and 10%. The extra hurdle is the second profit figure, not a wider stop.
The FX lot is awkward and the gold lot is a trap of tidiness
A $125 unit on a 20-pip FX stop is about 0.62 lots at $10 per pip, or $124. The round 0.70 lot is $140. Gold at 0.25 lots on a 50-pip stop is exactly $125, at $10 per 0.10 move, and that tidiness invites a second 0.25 lot. Two metals are $250, a fifth of the day, and usually one US dollar idea. Correlated tickets share a budget.
Bot controls should store $125, not 0.25 lots. If the stop widens to 70 pips, 0.25 gold lots risk $175 and the ticket is no longer the unit. Expert Advisors are allowed on MT4 and MT5. A hardcoded 0.25 is how the tidy number survives a wider stop and a larger stage.
A $400 gold loss is inside the day and outside the habit
The band that keeps seven stops inside a 5% day is 0.35% to 0.65%, about $88 to $162 on this balance. A $400 loser is more than twice the $125 unit. It does not print the $1,250 line, and it can drop the Edge Score under the stage minimum. The freeze lasts a month and can skip the 1st, when up to 90% of multiplier profit is paid. Your own deposit still keeps 100%.
There is no news blackout to forgive a CPI slip from 50 pips to 90 on 0.25 lots, which is about $225 instead of $125. Weekend holding is allowed. A 60-pip gap on that same 0.25 lot is $150, another full-size accident at the Sunday open. The 2-week pause waits at $2,500. You should have stopped trading long before that number is close.
Flatten near $1,062 and protect the $62 pace
Equity Guard at 4.25% is about $1,062. A round $1,000 exit is a little tight and still sane. The official $1,250 is the target in disguise, and it is the wrong exit. If the day is down $800, you are already at thirteen times the $62.50 pace in the wrong direction. Stop for the session. The remaining days in the 20-day count are the asset.
At 00:00, live equity resets the allowance. A $600 open winner is almost half the day. Banking it keeps the next session's $1,250 attached to a closed balance. After a scale, throw away both the 0.62 lot and the $1,062 flatten and recompute from the new stage. The pace only stays $62.50 while the target stays $1,250.