Linear lot scaling copies the shield problem
On $100K, 1.45 gold lots with a 70-pip stop is about $1,015, just through a $1,000 shield. Double the balance and double the lot, and 2.90 lots at the same stop is about $2,030, just through a $2,000 shield. The percentages did not get safer. They scaled. The fitting gold ticket at 0.50% is 2.00 lots with a 50-pip stop, which risks $1,000. A 70-pip structure at $1,000 of risk is about 1.43 lots, not 2.90.
EURUSD at 5.00 lots and a 20-pip stop is also $1,000. Slip that stop to 40 pips, or add a second 5.00 lot correlated pair, and open loss is $2,000. That is the 1% shield. The $8,000 day can still show $6,000 of room. Manual Trade Guard has to put the original 20-pip stop on the MT5 fill so a widened stop is a decision, not a drift. Daily loss resets at 00:00 from the higher of balance or equity.
Elite is $20,000 of static room, Rapid starts at $12,000
Unlimited's floor is $184,000. Elite's static 10% is $20,000 of room, floor $180,000. That $4,000 gap is real, and it is not permission to risk $2,000 on one idea, because the shield does not read the Elite slider. Rapid trails 6% from a $12,000 start. Phase 1 is 8%, $16,000, the same cash figure as the Unlimited maximum. Giving the entire target back ties Unlimited. Phase 2 is 4%, $8,000. There is no minimum day count.
Equity Guard should flatten near $6,500, 3.25% of $200,000, ahead of the $8,000 day. A separate open-loss alarm near $1,800 gets you out before a 1% strike. Equity Guard on a $100K profile must not be left attached to this login. A $3,250 flatten is far too early, and a missing update that still thinks the day is $4,000 will flatten a normal $200K swing.
Index points at five times a small account
If NAS100 pays $1 per point, $1,000 of risk is 12.5 lots at an 80-point stop or 10.0 lots at 100 points. That is a large ticket on MT5, and it is still one idea. Pairing 10 lots of NAS100 with 10 lots of US30 through the 13:30 UTC candle can reach the $2,000 shield on a correlated whip. Wait for the opening candle to close, then take one index. Bot Control is the pause, and standard anti-hyperactivity limits are the reason the stop is attached once.
Weekend holding is allowed. A Friday float of +$3,500 at the snapshot rebases the next session's 4% off $203,500. Giving $3,000 back at the Sunday reopen spends a large piece of an $8,000 day that has not "started" in your head yet. Partial before 00:00. The 85% bi-weekly split, from 14 days after the first funded trade, is paid on the account that is still open.
Sixteen $1,000 outcomes, not one 2.90 lot bet
Phase 1 is $16,000. At $1,000 risk, a full 2R winner is $2,000, so eight of those reach the target, and a messier path takes 10 to 16 trades. A single 2.90 lot gold loss near $2,030 is strike territory and barely moves the target math. EAs are allowed. An EA sized off a fixed lot, rather than off 0.50% of $200,000, is how a strategy that survived $100K collects a shield strike on day one here.
Register a free Venasri account and store 5.00 EURUSD lots and 2.00 XAUUSD lots as the defaults, with 1.43 gold lots for a 70-pip stop. Funded news windows still apply unless the add-on is active. Two or three shield strikes end the funded account. The $8,000 day is the wide fence. The $2,000 open-loss cap is the fence you will actually touch.
