Evaluation 4% versus funded 1% Shield
Unlimited evaluation daily: 4% of max(day-start, equity at 00:00 GMT+2/GMT+3). $4,000 on flat $100K, $8,000 static max (Elite $10,000), $8,000 then $4,000 targets. Rapid: $4,000 daily, $6,000 trail. Funded Shield: flatten at $1,000 to $2,000 floating on a trade, plus strikes. The daily calculator for a funded Blue Guardian account is therefore min(remaining 4% daily, remaining room to Shield). Remaining room to Shield is usually the binding constraint.
Zero minimum days make evaluation fast. They do not disable Shield later. Convert your pass size down the day you fund, not after strike one.
Phase 2 equals daily 4%
Phase 2 asks $4,000. Daily allows $4,000. That identity is the Unlimited exam's sharp edge. A 3.5% winner passes Phase 2. A 4.1% loser ends the challenge. Use four to six 0.7% attempts. Rapid's 6% trail can bind in Phase-less 1-Step life before 4% daily does if you had a peak. Elite 10% max is the only lifetime number in this family that feels like a conventional 2-Step, and Shield still ignores that comfort once funded.
Higher-of midnight raises Tuesday's 4% if Monday float is high. Shield can still flatten an idea at 1% during Monday before midnight even matters. Order of operations: idea cap, daily cap, lifetime cap. You can start a free Venasri account and put Shield at the top of that list for funded logins.
Strike math: two flattens and you are close to done
Strike one: gold wicks 1.7%, Shield closes you, -$1,700, account lives, you are tilted. Strike two: you re-enter bigger, another 1.4% dip, Shield again. Two or three of those and the funded account is gone at about 3% cash loss, inside the 4% daily headline, inside the 8% max. That is the calculator people miss because they add 4%+8% and think they have room. Shield does not add. It interrupts.
News add-off: 5-minute funded window. A Shield flatten during news is still a strike. Stay flat into CPI unless the add-on is on and your idea cap is tiny.
Personal flatten at 0.8% so Shield stays asleep
Funded: per-idea Venasri Equity Guard near $800 on $100K (0.8%), daily guard still near $3,250 as a backstop. Evaluation: daily $3,250 is enough because Shield is not the exam. ZeroMQ MT5 Bridge for fast SL attach. 24/7 MT5 Bot Control blocks re-entry on the same symbol for a cooling window after a flatten so strike two is not immediate.
85% split every 14 days is the reason to accept 0.8% ideas. Rapid users also watch the 6% trail. Elite users should not spend the extra 2% max (10% vs 8%) on larger ideas that Shield will anyway cut at 1% to 2%. Extra max is for slow bleed, not for fatter gold.