1.00 lot is a 25-pip idea, not an identity
At $10 per pip, lot times stop times 10 has to equal $250. That is 1.00 lot at 25 pips, or 0.50 lots at 50 pips. Gold uses the same $10 per 0.10 move, so 0.50 lots at 50 pips is $250 as well. Daily loss is $2,500, ten units, reset at 00:00 on live equity. The maximum is $5,000, twenty units, and the first touch pauses allocation for 2 weeks.
A trader who "always uses 1.00" will be right only on the days the stop is 25 pips. Bot controls should calculate the product and block the ticket above $250. Expert Advisors are allowed to send 1.00 lot. They are not allowed to ignore the stop distance that makes 1.00 lot legal.
The $2,500 target does not entitle you to a $2,500 loss
Phase 1 is 5%, $2,500. A second 5% mark is another $2,500. Ten clean 1R winners at $250 reach the first mark. Twenty minimum days turn it into $125 a session, half a unit. You can be ahead of that pace and still destroy the month with one 1.50 lot gold trade. At 50 pips that ticket is $750, three units, inside the day and outside a $250 habit.
The Edge Score, 50 to 90 or higher, is allowed to freeze the multiplier for a month on that $750. Settlement on the 1st pays up to 90% of multiplier profit and 100% of profit on your deposit. Create a Venasri login before you need the statement, and keep the $250 cap where the robot can see it.
Sunday on 1.00 lot of gold is already two units
Weekend holding is fully permitted. A 50-pip gap on 1.00 lot of gold is about $500, two units, at the reopen. On 0.50 lots it is one unit, $250, which is the planned size and still a full idea you did not click on Monday. There is no news blackout if that Monday is CPI. The slip stacks on the gap.
Live equity at midnight means a $1,000 open winner is 2% of the stage. Given back after 00:00, it consumes $1,000 of the next $2,500. Partial before the snapshot if the float is larger than one unit. NAS100 at the 13:30 UTC open is a separate budget. Do not run a $250 index scalp and a $250 gold swing as if the account had two daily lines.
Flatten near $2,125 so the twin numbers stay apart
The target is $2,500 and the daily loss is $2,500. Equity Guard has to sit somewhere else, or you will exit at the same number you are trying to make. Use about $2,125, 4.25% of $50,000, and leave $375 for the fill. If you are down $1,500, three more $250 ideas are the guard. Take none of them.
A scale to a larger stage throws 1.00 lot away as a default. Recompute. The 2-week pause at $5,000 is survivable on paper and fatal to a month you intended to settle on the 1st. The boring $250 ticket, repeated inside 20 days, is the whole plan.