When the target and the floor are twins
Phase 1 is 8%, $2,000. Unlimited's static maximum is 8%, $2,000, so the equity floor starts at $23,000. Climb to $27,000 and then round-trip to $23,000 and you have tagged the floor even though the high-water mark felt comfortable. Elite's static 10% is $2,500, a little more air. Rapid trails 6% from a $1,500 start, which is tighter than Unlimited and moves. Daily loss stays 4%, $1,000, on all three, reset at 00:00 from the higher of balance or equity.
There is no minimum trading-day rule, so you do not have to defend a $2,000 open profit into a dead session just to "count a day." Bank it. Phase 2 is 4%, $1,000. The 85% split is bi-weekly, starting 14 days after the first funded trade, and a shield strike sequence can end the account while the closed profit still looks like a pass.
0.62 lots of FX, 0.25 lots of gold
A $125 risk on EURUSD at $10 a pip and a 20-pip stop is 0.62 lots, which risks $124. On gold, 0.25 lots with a 50-pip stop risks $125. A 70-pip gold stop at 0.25 lots is $175, still under a $250 shield and far under the $1,000 day. The $100K habit of 1.00 lot is $500 at 50 pips, which is a 2% shield event on this balance and half of the daily line in one ticket.
Where NAS100 pays $1 per point, $125 buys 2.08 lots at a 60-point stop or 1.25 lots at 100 points. Use 2.00 or 1.20. Manual Trade Guard attaches that stop on the MT5 fill and can scale the remainder through TP1 to TP4 so the $2,000 open profit does not sit there unprotected. Equity Guard should flatten the day near $812, which is 3.25%.
Two $125 losers are a 1% strike if they are open together
Closed, sequential $125 losses take eight prints to reach the $1,000 day. Open together, two of them are $250, which is the 1% shield. That is the $25K-specific trap: the day looks wide because $1,000 sounds like room, and the shield is a quarter of that. Add a third correlated index ticket and you can be flattened while the daily loss is only a third spent. One idea after a loss, at 0.25 gold or 0.62 FX, not a basket.
EAs are allowed inside standard MT5 anti-hyperactivity limits. A grid that doubles 0.25 lots to 0.50 lots under a red gold trade risks $250 on the add alone if the stop is 50 pips. That add is the strike. Bot Control should block a fresh entry after a losing close and should partial a $600 or larger float in the last half hour before midnight.
A $700 float rewrites a $1,000 day
Hold +$700 of open profit into 00:00 and the next base is $25,700 if balance was $25,000. Four percent of $25,700 is about $1,028 of room under the higher number. A $900 giveback the next morning spends most of the new day and can still leave you above the $23,000 Unlimited floor. The breach email is about the daily rule, not the maximum. Partial before the snapshot so Tuesday starts from closed balance.
Register a free Venasri account and keep this $25K card separate from a $10K or $100K login. Funded news windows still apply unless the add-on is on, and weekend holds are allowed. The Sunday gap counts toward the $1,000 day. Pass Phase 1 by banking the $2,000, not by carrying it as a float that both the shield and the midnight snapshot can tax.
