5% higher-of at CE(S)T, 10% static for life
Daily loss is 5% of max(day-start balance, equity at 00:00 CE(S)T). Flat $100K: $5,000 daily, $10,000 static max, $8,000 then $5,000 targets, five days. Funded 5-minute news can still spend that $5,000 if a stop runs. Evaluation news is allowed, so the same CPI day is legal in Phase 1 and restricted once funded. Write the stage on the sheet or you will trade funded like Phase 1.
Weekly payout add-on does not change 5%. Scaling to 100% split does not change 5%. Tokens do not change 5%. The only thing that changes 5% is a higher midnight equity snapshot, which makes the dollar hole larger under a richer number and easier to spend if the float fades.
Lot math for tokens versus lot math for 5%
Suppose your edge is two 0.70-lot EURUSD ideas a day. Token hunger adds four more 0.70-lot ideas. Six stops at $180 each is $1,080, already 21% of $5,000, for noise. Two stops of real edge at the same size is $360. The extra $720 is the loyalty tax. If two of those extra clips hit a 1.2% gold mistake instead of $180 FX, you are suddenly at 2.4% plus the real losers and the daily line is in play before New York.
Set a daily lot budget equal to the trades you would take if tokens paid zero. Let Trade2Earn ride along. Redeem tokens later for a retry you did not need because you did not farm. You can start a free Venasri account and log planned lots versus actual lots for a week of BrightFunded. The gap is the trap.
Midnight float plus a token-farm hold
A farmer who leaves extra overnight lots for Asia volume can print a higher CE(S)T equity, then watch Asia fade those extra lots into Tuesday's 5%. That is a combined trap: higher-of plus unused risk. Partial extra lots before 00:00 even if you insist on holding the real swing. Tokens on a Tuesday close are worth nothing if Tuesday never happens.
Five minimum days mean you cannot token-farm volume in a single session and pass. You have to show five days inside 5% daily. That is actually a brake on farming if you respect it. If you treat five days as five farming sessions, it is an accelerator. Choose.
Guard 5%, cap lots, pause funded news
Venasri Equity Guard near $4,250 daily on $100K. Daily lot cap at planned edge, not at token appetite. ZeroMQ MT5 Bridge for CE(S)T equity. 24/7 MT5 Bot Control pauses funded 5-minute news entries and refuses group copy-trading. HFT off. 2,000 messages watched if you trail.
Static 10% is the backup parachute, not the plan. Most BrightFunded deaths will print 5% daily during a farming burst or a midnight fade, not 10% slow bleed. Keep the third scale-up (100% split) in mind as the prize for ignoring tokens when they argue with the cash column.
