Put both contracts on one card
1-step: 3% daily, 6% trailing maximum. 2-step: 4% daily, static 8% maximum, targets of 8% then 5%. On $100,000 that is $3,000 and a moving $6,000 trail, versus $4,000 and a fixed $8,000 hole, with $8,000 to make and then $5,000 more. Both reset the day from day-start balance at 00:00 UTC. Both allow news, both allow the weekend, and neither imposes a best-day cap or a minimum day count. The fee on $100,000 is $499.
If your losing streaks are short and your winners are lumpy, the static 8% book can absorb a mark-up that would have trailed you out on 1-step. If you need the evaluation to be one phase because you will not tolerate a second target, pay for that with the tighter day. Sign up on Venasri only after the card is filled in. Guessing the product from a thumbnail is how the wrong guard gets loaded.
The trail taxes the open profit the static floor ignores
Suppose the 1-step account runs to $104,000 open and the trail follows. The remaining distance to death is no longer the original $6,000. A pullback that a 2-step trader still calls a normal Bitcoin rotation can end the 1-step exam. The 2-step static floor stays at $92,000 the whole time. You can give back an open gain there without moving the lifetime line. You still have the 4% day to respect, from whatever balance the UTC midnight recorded.
This is why pass-rate arguments that only count phases are incomplete. The 2-step asks for 13% in total, 8 then 5, across two phases. The 1-step asks for less calendar and offers less air. A trader who blows 1-step three times has not saved the Phase 2 work. They have paid the fee to learn the trail. The platforms, Breakout Terminal and TradingView, do not change between the products. Your size has to.
Match the book to the shape of the edge
A slow crypto swing that holds through Saturday fits the 2-step static maximum better, provided each idea stays near 0.50% and the weekend size is smaller than the weekday size. The 4% day is still $4,000 on $100,000, and a thin-book wick can spend it. The swing fits because the lifetime line will not chase the midweek high. It does not fit because the weekend is safe.
A fast intraday book that is flat every night can live on 1-step if the daily unit is cut for a $3,000 day. Seven $500 losses do not fit in $3,000. Four $500 losses are $2,000 and leave a pocket. Bot controls should load the 1-step ceiling automatically when the login is the 1-step login. Sharing one lot template across both products is the comparison people skip and then call bad luck.
The guard number is part of the choice
Equity Guard at 3.25% is a 2-step setting, about $3,250 against a $4,000 day. On 1-step that same setting is past the official $3,000 line. The 1-step flatten belongs near $2,250. Load the wrong one and you either die first or flatten so early that the tighter product feels impossible. The trail needs a second alert. Daily guard does not know that yesterday high moved the 6% floor.
Payout after you pass is the same family either way: 80% up to 90%, on-demand daily USDC. Do not pick 1-step because you think the split is richer. The split is a funded-stage term. The evaluation difference is room. Choose the room your last twenty losers would have survived, then aim the target at that book only.
