Twenty days is the minimum, not a suggestion
You cannot compress a stage into a brilliant week. The program wants 20 trading days before the track record is treated as real. On a $100,000 stage the Phase 1 style target in these rules is 5%, or $5,000, and the second stage asks for another 5%. Spread across 20 sessions, $5,000 is $250 a day, which is half of a single 0.50% winner. The constraint is patience, not a daily profit quota.
Daily loss is still 5%, $5,000, reset at 00:00 server time. Nothing in the 20-day count gives you permission to lose the day faster because you are "behind the average." Sign up on Venasri and log the day count beside open equity so a short month is not mistaken for a finished month.
The score is the consistency rule this program actually uses
There is no classic best-day cap that voids a payout because one session made 40% of the profit. The gate is the Edge Score, built from skill, risk, consistency, and experience. Early stages need a score around 50. Later stages push toward 90 or higher. A single oversized loser can drop you under the minimum and freeze multiplier progression for a month, which skips the 1st you were counting on.
Stages run Seed, Incubation, Acceleration, Pro, and Pro M. The score is how you move, together with the profit marks and the 10% maximum. That maximum, $10,000 on $100,000, pauses the allocation for 2 weeks on the first hit. A pause and a score freeze can overlap. They are not the same penalty, and either one moves the payout.
What the 1st actually pays
Settlement is monthly, on the 1st. Up to 90% of profit generated on the multiplier allocation is paid to you. Profit on your own live deposit is yours at 100%. If the multiplier book made $3,000 and your own funds made $400, the statement is up to $2,700 from the multiplier plus the $400, provided the account is in good standing. The $0 evaluation fee is why this is a revenue share and not a challenge refund.
A breach on the 31st can erase the meeting with the 1st. Bot controls should be flat, or at least inside the daily line with room, before server midnight rolls into the new month. Weekend holding is permitted, so a position opened on the Friday before a 1st that falls on a Monday is a payout bet as well as a market bet.
Keep the daily loss small enough that the score survives
Equity Guard at 4.25%, $4,250 on $100,000, protects the $5,000 day. It does not by itself protect the Edge Score. A $3,000 loser that never trips the guard can still be the oversized trade the score hates, if your normal unit is $500. Cap ideas between 0.35% and 0.65%, $350 to $650, so one ticket cannot dominate the month.
Expert Advisors are allowed on MT4 and MT5. An advisor that trades every data print at full size will collect 20 days quickly and can still fail the score. Count days only when the risk unit was the one you wrote down. The 1st pays the trader who can show the same size on day 3 and day 19.