The schedule people quote, with the shield added
Daily loss is 4% from the higher of day-start balance or equity at 00:00, GMT+2 or GMT+3. Unlimited's maximum is a static 8%, floor $92,000. Elite's static 10% is $10,000 of room, floor $90,000. Rapid trails 6%, starting at $6,000. Phase 2 is 4%, $4,000. No minimum trading days. The $100K fee in the rule matrix is $400. Equity Guard belongs at 3.25%, $3,250, so the day ends before $4,000.
The number the daily line hides is the shield. A 1% cap is $1,000. A 2% cap is $2,000. Eight sequential $500 losses reach the day. Two open $500 losses reach the 1% shield. Manual Trade Guard attaches the $500 stop on the MT5 fill so the open loss meets your price before the firm's flatten writes a strike. Match-Trader and TradeLocker still need that price on their own tickets.
2.50 FX lots, 1.00 gold lot, and the 1.45 lot edge
EURUSD at $10 a pip and a 20-pip stop is 2.50 lots for $500. Gold at $10 per 0.10 move and a 50-pip stop is 1.00 lot. A 70-pip gold stop should be about 0.71 lots, not 1.00. The wide band of 0.80 to 1.45 lots risks about $400 to $725 at 50 pips and about $560 to $1,015 at 70 pips. The top of that band on a 70-pip stop steps through a $1,000 shield. Use 1.00 lot only when the structure is 50 pips.
If NAS100 pays $1 per point, $500 is 6.25 lots at 80 points or 5.00 lots at 100 points. Round down, and do not run US30 at the same size in the same minute. Bot Control should hold index entries until the 13:30 UTC candle closes and should pause the next ticket after a losing close. Anti-hyperactivity limits make a tick trail a bad way to manage a 2.50 lot FX stop.
Phase 1 is the same $8,000 as the Unlimited floor
Passing Phase 1 and then giving it all back is an Unlimited breach, because both numbers are $8,000. Bank partials on the way up. Rapid traders have less room: a trailing 6% can move while you are still celebrating an open $3,000. Elite gives you a static $10,000, which is real extra air, and it does not cancel the $1,000 shield. Program choice changes the maximum. It does not change the strike.
A +$2,200 gold float at midnight makes the next base $102,200 if you started the snapshot at $100,000. Four percent of that base is about $4,088 under $102,200. The pullback spends Tuesday. Partial 20 to 40 minutes before 00:00. Weekend holds are allowed, and the Sunday gap counts. Equity Guard is the daily flatten. The partial is a separate instruction.
Fourteen funded days at $500, then the 85% split
The split is 85%, bi-weekly, starting 14 days after the first funded trade. During those days the temptation is to trade 1.45 lots because the internet said that was the gold cap. If your shield is 1% and the stop is 70 pips, that cap is a strike. Stay at $500 of planned risk, one idea, stop on the ticket. Ten to sixteen trades can build $8,000 if winners pay more than losers. One oversized reopen can collect strike one.
Create a free Venasri account and lock 2.50 EURUSD lots and 1.00 XAUUSD lot as the $100K defaults, with 0.70 lots stored for a 70-pip gold stop. EAs are allowed. An EA that grids a second gold lot under the first is how $500 becomes $1,100 of open loss. The funded news window still applies unless the add-on is on. A filled stop inside it counts toward the $4,000 day.
