The dollars the other sizes are multiples of
Ten losses at $500 equal the $5,000 day. Twenty equal the static maximum. Sixteen winners at $500, with no losses, equal the $8,000 Phase 1 target, which is why the pass plan says 10 to 16 trades at 0.50%. Two full official days land on $90,000. The floor does not trail a winning week, so a close at $108,000 still has its lifetime line at $90,000. The next day, if you are flat, is 5% of $108,000, which is $5,400, not a fresh $5,000 under $100,000.
1-Step uses the same $5,000 and $10,000 loss box. BrightFunded does not publish a separate 1-Step target next to these dollars. The 2-Step is the path with $8,000 then $5,000.
Gold from $350 to the 1.45 lot cap
The lot plan runs from 0.35% to 0.65%, $350 to $650. Seven stops at $650 are $4,550, leaving $450 under the day. The gold strategy cap is 0.80 to 1.45 lots with a 50 to 70 pip stop. At $10 per 0.10 move on 1.00 lot, that is $400 to $1,015. A $500, 50 pip idea is 1.00 lot and sits inside both the cap and the half-percent plan. A 70 pip stop on 1.45 lots at $1,015 breaks the 0.65% cap.
You can create a Venasri login and save $500 as the default ticket, 1.45 lots as the gold ceiling, and $5,000 as the day. NAS100 still needs 60 to 100 points converted with your own point value until the cash matches.
Midnight on the reference account
The higher of balance or equity at 00:00 CE(S)T is the daily base. A $3,000 float on a $100,000 closed balance sets the next hole off $103,000. Five percent of that is $5,150, so the daily floor is near $97,850. You breach the day about $2,150 under the original start and still about $7,850 above the static floor. That is the hidden part of a "static" firm.
Arm Equity Guard at $4,250, which is 4.25%, and move it when the base moves. Trade2Earn tokens do not change the base. Extra lots that create the float do.
What $495 does not buy
The fee buys the evaluation. It does not buy a second 2,000 messages, a waiver on funded news, or an Instant-style bot ban from another firm. Personal EAs are allowed. HFT, latency arbitrage, and group copy-trading are not. Funded accounts restrict five minutes each side of red-folder events. Payouts, once you pass, are 80% every 14 days, or 7 days with the add-on, up to 100% at the third milestone.
Bot Control should trade the $500 ticket, pause after a loss, and stay quiet in the funded news window. Weekend holding is allowed. A Sunday gap still counts against whatever 5% hole the last snapshot created.