Seed, Incubation, Acceleration, Pro, Pro M on live Axi
Axi Select (Sydney, Axi regulated broker, founded 2023) is a capital-allocation ladder, not a simulated two-step. You keep 100% of profit on your own deposit and up to 90% of multiplier allocation profit. Settlement is monthly on the 1st. Platforms are live MT5 and MT4. EAs are fully allowed. There is no news blackout and no weekend ban, because the book is the real Axi market. Minimum trading days per stage sit at 20, which already tells you this is a track-record product, not a weekend pass.
Stage profit target is 5% then 5% as you climb. Daily loss is 5% of live equity context. Stage max is 10%, and the first 10% hit triggers a two-week pause rather than a permanent ban. You can start a free Venasri account and treat Axi Select as a live-account Guard problem: protect the Edge Score, not a challenge timer.
Edge Score 50 to 90 is the hidden max-loss
Axi's Edge Score grades skill, risk, consistency, and experience. Dropping below the stage minimum freezes multiplier progression for a month even if the 10% drawdown never printed. A 4% revenge ticket that you "got back" still scars the score. That is why Venasri Equity Guard should flatten at 3.5% of the live deposit-plus-multiplier equity, well inside the 5% daily and 10% stage lines. The Guard is not saving a $99 challenge fee. It is saving a month of allocation and a live deposit.
Max-loss lock at 8.5% of stage start, not 10%. Use the extra 1.5% so a gap cannot spend the quarantine trigger while you are in a news spike Axi will happily fill (there is no 2-minute ban). Real liquidity is the feature and the hazard.
Twenty days, monthly 1st settlement, live news
Twenty minimum days per stage stops the FTMO-style two-session pass. You are building a DARWIN-adjacent track record on a retail broker with a multiplier. Monthly settlement on the 1st means a drawdown on the 28th can hit both the stage 10% and the month's Edge Score before cash hits the 1st. 24/7 MT5 Bot Control should cap per-trade risk at 0.40% of stage equity and refuse a second ticket in the same direction within 15 minutes of a loser. That is how Edge Score dies: clustered size after a loss.
Because news is unrestricted, CPI can fill a 2-lot gold market order at a 40-pip spread. Guard must be faster than your thumb. Axi will not confiscate the fill. It will just reprice your deposit.
Live Axi bridge, no prop-server fiction
The ZeroMQ MT5 Bridge talks to a real Axi server, so there is no 2,000-message prop cap, only live broker conduct. Still step your trails. Axi's dealing desk does not owe you a pass-bot courtesy. Manual Trade Guard on every discretionary fill is how a $500 Seed deposit does not become a $480 Seed deposit in four minutes.
Presets: Seed 5/10/5 with 20-day counter, Guard 3.5% / 8.5%, Edge Score notes field. When Axi emails a quarantine, stop. Do not "make it back" on day two of a two-week pause. The pause is the product working. Trading through it is how people turn a freeze into a closed live account.