MT5, cTrader, DXtrade, and no fourth platform
The platform list is MT5, cTrader, and DXtrade. A setup guide that adds MT4 is describing another firm. The guard's job on the platform you do have is the same: hard stop on the fill, breakeven after the first target, partial closes at TP1, TP2, TP3, and TP4. That sequence is a risk manager, which BrightFunded permits, and it is a small number of messages.
Personal EAs may enter as well, with the same message budget. Group copy-trading may not. If the "EA" is a feed shared across accounts, it is the banned pattern even when each account is under 2,000 messages on its own.
Milliseconds on the fill, not a tick trail
Attaching the stop in milliseconds matters because a naked click into gold or the New York open can spend the $5,000 day before you tab back to the platform. The attachment is one message. A trail that follows every print is thousands. The cap does not care that your intention was protection. It counts modifications.
You can create a Venasri login and connect the BrightFunded server through MetaAPI Cloud or the local bridge. Store the 5% day and the static 10% maximum on that login. 1-Step and 2-Step share those loss percents, so the loss profile can match, while the 8% and 5% targets stay on the 2-Step note.
The stop has to be a dollar figure first
A 50 pip gold stop at $10 per 0.10 move on 1.00 lot is $500 per lot, which is 0.50% of $100,000 and inside the 0.35% to 0.65% band. The guard should be told that cash stop, not a default lot. Equity Guard then sits at 4.25%, $4,250, so a missed stop or a stack of tickets still flattens before $5,000.
Check both numbers on Equity Guard at the start of the day and again after 00:00 CE(S)T if a float changed the higher-of snapshot. The static floor at $90,000 is the wrong alarm for an intraday wick.
The bridge has to know when you are funded
Phase 1 and Phase 2 allow news. The funded account restricts five minutes before and after red-folder events. A bridge that always trades the evaluation template will click inside that window after you pass. CPI, NFP, and FOMC stops still debit the 5% day immediately. Trade2Earn does not change either sentence.
Bot Control should keep a funded profile that is quiet in the five-minute window and that steps stops instead of ticking them, so the 2,000 cap and the news rule fail separately from the $5,000 line. The 80% split is collected later, on a book that still exists.
