Phase 2 is one bad day wide
Phase 1 wants $800. Sixteen wins at $50 with no losses equal that number. The day ends at $500, so a full red day is 62.5% of the profit you are building, and it leaves the balance at $9,500 with $500 of room above the $9,000 floor. You do not get two of those days. Phase 2 then asks for $500, which a single repeat of that red day erases.
There is no best-day consistency rule on the standard 2-Step, and there are still five minimum trading days. An $800 green print does not finish the day count. The static floor does not trail up if you do finish it.
Gold at 0.10 lots, not at the $100K cap
A 50 pip gold stop at $10 per 0.10 move on 1.00 lot is $500 per full lot. $50 of risk is 0.10 lots. A 70 pip stop at the same cash is about 0.07 lots. The 0.80 lot low end of the $100,000 cap is $400 at 50 pips, which is 80% of this account's entire day. One imported lot ends the evaluation.
You can create a Venasri login and store $50 as the ticket and $500 as the day. The 0.35% to 0.65% band on $10,000 is $35 to $65. $50 sits in the middle. $65 times seven is $455, which approaches $500. $50 times ten is the whole day.
A small float is a large share of $500
A $150 open profit at 00:00 CE(S)T on a $10,000 balance makes $10,150 the higher figure. Five percent of that is $507.50. Giving the $150 back spends a third of the new day. On this balance you cannot shrug off a float the way a $100,000 account might shrug off the same dollars. Weekend holding is allowed, and a Sunday gap counts in full.
Lock Equity Guard at 4.25%, which is $425 on a flat $10,000 start. That is $75 inside the official $500. Move the cash lock if the snapshot base moves.
Do not let the bot spend the Phase 2 day early
Personal EAs are allowed on MT5, cTrader, and DXtrade, under 2,000 messages a day. The cap is the same number a $100,000 book gets. Trade2Earn tokens are not a reason to add a second 0.10 lot. Two open $50 ideas are $100, a fifth of the day, and a pullback on both is how Phase 2 disappears before it starts.
Bot Control should keep one $50 idea in the market and should pause after a loss so the five-minute revenge cluster never starts. Funded accounts still owe the five-minute red-folder window. The 80% split, every 14 days, is a funded event. It is not a repair for a $500 Phase 2 morning.