Half a lot of gold is the whole ticket
Daily loss is 4%, $2,000, from the higher of day-start balance or equity at 00:00 server time, GMT+2 or GMT+3. Unlimited's static maximum is 8%, $4,000, floor $46,000. Elite's static 10% is $5,000. Rapid trails 6%, starting at $3,000. Phase 2 is 4%, $2,000. There is no minimum trading-day count. The 0.50% ticket is $250, and Equity Guard should flatten the day near $1,625, which is 3.25%.
XAUUSD at 0.50 lots and a 50-pip stop risks $250. The same size with a 70-pip stop risks $350, still under a $500 shield. A 1.00 lot at 50 pips is $500, the 1% cap, with $1,500 of daily room left unused. Manual Trade Guard should attach the 0.50 lot stop on the MT5 fill. Traders who "round up to a full lot because $50K is serious size" are rounding into the shield.
1.25 FX lots, and the second chart
EURUSD at $10 a pip, 20-pip stop, $250 risk, is 1.25 lots. A 30-pip stop at 1.25 lots is $375. GBPUSD at the same 1.25 lots is not a free second ticket. If both stop at 20 pips, open loss is $500 and the 1% shield can flatten both. NAS100, if it pays $1 per point, takes 4.16 lots at a 60-point stop or 2.50 lots at 100 points to risk $250. Use 4.00 or 2.50, and do not pair it with gold in the same minute.
The $2,000 day can absorb eight sequential $250 losses. It cannot absorb them open together, and the shield will not wait for the eighth. Bot Control should allow one symbol after a losing close and should refuse a new index entry until the 13:30 UTC candle has closed. Standard MT5 anti-hyperactivity limits still punish a trail that rewrites on every tick.
Bank the $4,000 before it becomes the floor
Phase 1 and the Unlimited maximum are the same $4,000. A run to $54,000 that mean-reverts to $46,000 tags the static floor on the way through the old high. Partial at TP1 through TP4 while the open profit is still a profit. Rapid is stricter: the 6% trail starts with only $3,000 of room and walks up, so a giveback Unlimited would ignore can end Rapid. Know which program the password belongs to before you let a winner float overnight.
A +$900 float at midnight rebases the next 4% off $50,900. The new hole is about $2,036 under that higher equity. Giving the $900 back spends nearly half the new day. Weekend holds are allowed, so Friday is the same problem with a Sunday gap added. Equity Guard covers the $2,000 line. It does not partial the winner for you unless you tell the session to flatten before 00:00.
The first funded fortnight at $250
The 85% split is bi-weekly, starting 14 days after the first funded trade. Those 14 days are when a $50K login starts feeling large enough for 1.00 lot gold. It is not. Stay at 0.50 lots and $250 until the first payout is requested. Two or three shield strikes forfeit the account even if the closed profit would have been a clean withdrawal. EAs and risk managers are allowed. A manager that doubles the lot after a stop is the strike machine.
Open a free Venasri account and save 1.25 FX lots and 0.50 gold lots as the only $50K defaults. Funded red-folder windows still apply unless the news add-on is active. A stop filled in that window counts toward $2,000. Pass the $4,000 target by addition, 10 to 16 trades, not by one index open that needs a 1.00 lot to "be worth it."
