The $5,000 card in dollars
Daily loss is 4% of $5,000, so the line is $200, taken from the higher of day-start balance or equity at 00:00 server time, GMT+2 or GMT+3. Unlimited Guardian's maximum is a static 8%, $400, which leaves the equity floor at $4,600. Elite's static 10% is $500. Rapid, the 1-step, trails 6%, so the maximum starts at $300 and can walk up with peak equity. Phase 1 is 8%, $400. Phase 2 is 4%, $200. There is no minimum trading-day count.
Half a percent of this balance is $25. Equity Guard should flatten the day at 3.25%, about $162, so the session ends before $200 prints. A 1% shield is $50 and a 2% shield is $100. On this account the shield is not a distant warning. It is a single gold mistake. Manual Trade Guard has to attach the $25 stop when the MT5 order fills, because typing it afterward is already too late.
Lots that actually equal $25
On EURUSD at $10 a pip, a 20-pip stop and a $25 risk is 0.12 lots, which risks $24. A 0.13 lot version risks $26 and steps over the ticket. On XAUUSD at $10 per 0.10 move, a 50-pip stop is 0.05 lots and risks $25 exactly. A 0.10 lot gold ticket with that same stop risks $50, which is the 1% shield and a quarter of the $200 day. The 0.80 to 1.45 lot gold band used on $100K accounts does not belong here at all.
If NAS100 pays $1 per point, a 50-point stop at $25 of risk is 0.50 lots. A 100-point stop is 0.25 lots. Two index tickets open together can reach the $50 shield while each one looked like a scratch. One idea, one symbol, until the stop has closed. Match-Trader and TradeLocker need that same price typed on the ticket, because the shield reads the float on every Blue Guardian platform.
An $80 float is enough to rebase tomorrow
The higher-of snapshot does not care that the account is small. Leave +$80 of gold open at 00:00 and the next 4% is computed from $5,080, not from $5,000. Give that $80 back after midnight and you have spent $80 of a day that is only $200 wide, while the closed balance can still look unchanged. Weekend holding is allowed, so a Friday micro runner is a Sunday gap against the same thin day.
Bot Control should partial anything green in the last half hour before midnight and pause new entries after a losing close. Funded news is restricted in a short window around red-folder events unless the news add-on is active, and a stop filled there still counts toward $200. On a $5K book, spread during that window can be a meaningful slice of the day by itself.
Eight $50 winners clear Phase 1
Phase 1 is $400. A 2R winner on a $25 risk is $50, so eight full winners reach the target if losers stay at $25. Real paths take 10 to 16 trades because partials pay less than a full 2R. The Unlimited floor is also $400, which means giving the entire Phase 1 gain back ties the maximum. Take the partial. Do not "let it run" into a giveback that erases both the target and the floor on the same small number.
Open a free Venasri account and store 0.05 gold and 0.12 EURUSD as the only defaults. Equity Guard at about $162 is the daily flatten. The 85% split, bi-weekly from 14 days after the first funded trade, is a funded outcome. It never arrives if two or three shield strikes forfeit the account while you are still trying to trade a $100K lot on a $5K login.
