Zero days is not zero risk
Unlimited and Rapid do not make you wait for a minimum number of trading days. Phase 1 is 8%, $8,000 on $100,000. Phase 2 on the 2-Step is 4%, $4,000, which equals one 4% daily loss. A fast pass is structurally possible. Rapid's trailing 6%, $6,000 at the start, can end the attempt before the $8,000 is done if you size the fast pass like a static account. Elite's static 10% is more room and is still not a license to skip stops.
The shield is what stands in for a consistency score. A best-day cap would punish a huge green day. This firm punishes a floating red dip of 1% to 2%, and then punishes you again if you repeat it. Two or three funded strikes terminate the account.
85%, fourteen days after the first funded trade
The split is 85% standard, not an 80% base you have to scale. The first bi-weekly cycle starts 14 days after the first funded trade, not 14 days after you bought the challenge. The $400 fee is the $100,000 challenge price. Nothing on the card says the 85% becomes 100% at a third milestone. Do not budget that.
You can open a Venasri account and track the 14 days from the first funded fill, beside the $8,000 and $4,000 targets, so a zero-day evaluation is not confused with a zero-day payout.
The score is a strike count
On $100,000 the shield band is $1,000 to $2,000 of open loss. A planned 0.50% stop is $500, inside the band if it is one ticket and respected. A missing stop, or two tickets, is how you donate a strike without breaching the $4,000 day. The daily lock at 3.25%, $3,250, is there for the day. It does not erase a strike that already happened at $1,200 of float.
Record strikes on Equity Guard as a count, not only as a dollar flatten. After one funded strike, the next open loss has to be smaller, not larger. The account does not reset the strike count at 00:00 GMT+2 or GMT+3. The day resets. The strikes remain.
A fast bot still owes the shield
EAs are allowed, which is how someone tries to use the zero-day rule. Standard MT5 anti-hyperactivity limits still apply on MT5, Match-Trader, and TradeLocker. A bot that prints $8,000 and collects two shield strikes on the funded book has not created an 85% payout. It has created a forfeiture. Funded news still needs the add-on or the five-minute blackout.
Bot Control should keep each idea's cash loss at or under $500 and should refuse to re-enter in the minutes after a shield flatten. That re-entry is how strike two arrives. Weekend holding is allowed. A Sunday gap that runs into the shield is still a strike.