Sixteen times $500, or ten richer trades
Sixteen winning trades at $500, with no losses, equal the $8,000 Phase 1 target. Ten trades have to average $800, which is 1.6 times the risk. Losses mean you need more winners. Zero minimum trading days mean you are allowed to do this without stretching it across a five-day form. You are not allowed to do it in one ticket. A single $8,000 attempt is the entire Unlimited maximum and more than Rapid's starting $6,000 trail.
Phase 2, if you bought Unlimited, is $4,000. That equals one official daily loss. Keep the $500 ticket. Eight winners at one times risk, with nothing lost, equal that second target. Elite's extra static room, out to $10,000, does not change the $8,000 math. Rapid's trail means you may not have $8,000 of room left when you are halfway there.
Stop the day at $3,250
3.25% of $100,000 is $3,250. The official 4% line is $4,000. The $750 gap is one and a half half-percent trades. Eight losses at $500 equal the official day, so the guard is there to cut you around the sixth full loss, not the eighth. The reset is 00:00 GMT+2 or GMT+3 from the higher of balance or equity. A float into that clock changes tomorrow's $3,250 into a different cash distance.
You can sign up for Venasri and set the 3.25% lock before the first of the 10 to 16 trades. If you are on Rapid, add a separate note for the trailing 6%. The daily guard does not know the trail moved.
Do not pass and then forfeit
The evaluation can be fast. The funded book then counts shield strikes. A 1% to 2% floating dip, $1,000 to $2,000, flattens the position. Two or three funded strikes terminate the account. Two $500 trades open at once can touch the 1% end without a "revenge" story. The pass plan's half-percent ticket is safe only as one idea. The firm's trap is traders who treat the shield as a backup stop and collect the strikes after the profit target is already in the bag.
Keep the combined float under the shield on Equity Guard. A strike count is not reset by a green day, and it is not reset at midnight. The 4% day is.
A bot can pass quickly and still be illegal in spirit
EAs are allowed, which fits a zero-day challenge. Standard MT5 anti-hyperactivity limits on MT5, Match-Trader, and TradeLocker still forbid a tick trail that tries to "protect" the fast pass. Funded news needs the five-minute blackout or the add-on. The add-on does not disable the shield. Weekend gaps count toward the $4,000 day and toward the shield if you hold, which you may.
Bot Control should run the $500 ticket, one at a time, and should pause after any shield flatten so strike two is not an automated re-entry. The 85% split starts its 14-day clock at the first funded trade. It does not start if the strikes have already ended the account.