Turn $8,000 into a stack of $500 risks
Phase 1 is 8%. Phase 2 is another 5%, or $5,000 on $100,000, under the same 4% day and the same static 8% maximum. If you risk $500 and your average winner is larger than your average loser, the $8,000 can arrive across 10 to 16 meaningful trades without any one of them being allowed to lose more than $500. If a trade idea needs $1,500 of stop to be valid, it is not one of the sixteen. It is a different strategy, and it does not fit this pass plan.
There is no best-day cap forcing you to slow a winner down, and there is no minimum day forcing you to trade. Use that freedom to skip bad liquidity, not to double the unit because Tuesday was quiet. Open a Venasri account and write 0.50% as a hard reject above that cash amount. The reject is the pass plan. Motivation is not.
Count the losers the day can afford before you count the target
Six losses at $500 are $3,000. The guard at $3,250 should already be flattening. The official day dies at $4,000. If your session can produce six losers, you are done for the UTC day even if Phase 1 is only halfway. That is a successful defense, not a failed pass. The account that tries a seventh idea to get back to even is the account that pays the $499 fee twice.
The 1-step version of this plan is not the same article with a shorter title. The day is $3,000 and the maximum trails at 6%. A $500 unit is too large there if six losses are plausible. Cut the unit toward $300 and move the guard toward $2,250. Passing 1-step with 2-step size is the most common way to waste the skipped phase.
Saturday is optional even though it is open
The market is 24/7 and the rulebook does not close it. Your pass plan can still be flat from Friday evening to Monday if the orderbook is thin. An unwatched SOL position is not trade number nine in the series. It is a leftover. News is allowed, including CPI and FOMC. A news trade counts as one of the sixteen only if the bad fill still risks about $500. If the bad fill risks $2,000, it is a different bet and it can end the day by itself.
Bot controls should block new entries after the daily loss budget is half spent, and they should block adds that double the lot. You do not need a firm consistency rule to impose that. You need it because the target is $8,000 and the day is only $4,000. Half the day spent on revenge is half the target in the wrong direction.
Lock the guard at 3.25% and leave it alone
Equity Guard at 3.25% is $3,250 on $100,000. It is the lock in the pass plan, not a suggestion you tighten after two winners and loosen after two losers. Moving it toward $4,000 because you are close to the target is how the last $1,000 of Phase 1 costs the account. The static maximum at $92,000 is the other lock. A slow bleed across calm days can reach it while every individual day looked fine.
When Phase 1 posts, do not celebrate by raising risk for Phase 2. The day is still $4,000, or 4% of whatever balance midnight recorded. The target is now $5,000, which is closer, and closer targets are where traders get loose. Same unit. Same guard. The USDC rail opens after you are funded, not after you are almost funded.
