Sixteen times $125 is the Phase 1 target
$125 times sixteen is $2,000. That is the clean reading of the 10 to 16 trade plan on this balance: the long end of the range, all winners, one times risk, no scratches that do not pay. Ten trades would need to average $200 each. Losses mean you need more than sixteen winning tickets or larger R. Five minimum trading days still sit underneath, and there is no best-day cap forcing the $2,000 into a single session or forbidding it.
Ten losses at $125 equal $1,250, the whole day. Twenty equal the $2,500 maximum. Two official full days land on the floor. The third does not get to start.
The guard is $1,062.50
4.25% of $25,000 is $1,062.50. The official line is $1,250. The gap is $187.50, one $125 ticket plus half of another. The reset at 00:00 CE(S)T uses the higher of balance or equity, so a $400 gold float changes the next base to $25,400 and the next 5% hole is $1,270 under that figure, not a fresh $1,250 under $25,000.
You can sign up for Venasri and store both cash locks, $1,062.50 and $1,250, on the $25,000 profile. 1-Step does not change the percents. It is still 5% and static 10%.
Gold wants about 0.25 lots
A 50 pip stop at $10 per 0.10 move on 1.00 lot costs $500 per lot. $125 is 0.25 lots. A 70 pip stop at the same cash is about 0.18 lots. The $100,000 cap of 1.45 lots at 70 pips is about $1,015, which is most of this $1,250 day. The 0.35% to 0.65% band here is $87.50 to $162.50. $125 is inside it. $162.50 times seven is $1,137.50, still under the day, and an eighth is through it.
Put the daily lock on Equity Guard before the COMEX open, not after the wick. The 2,000 message cap is the same integer a larger account receives. A tick trail on 0.25 lots spends it just as fast.
One $125 idea, then a pause
Personal EAs may run on MT5, cTrader, or DXtrade. They should not add a second $125 idea to farm a Trade2Earn token. Two open ideas are $250, a fifth of the day. Funded news stays a five-minute window each side. Phase 1 and Phase 2 can still trade the release, and the stop still counts if it fills.
Bot Control should hold the cash stop at $125 and pause after a losing close so three trades do not print inside five minutes. The later payout is 80%, every 14 days, or 7 days with the add-on, up to 100% at the third milestone. None of that changes today's $1,250.
