The permission does not survive the pass email
Traders practice CPI on Phase 1 because the rule says they can. The 8% target, $8,000 on $100,000, can even be helped by one expansion. The funded contract then adds a five-minute blackout on each side of the red-folder print. The same click that was a legal Phase 1 entry is a funded rule break. Passing does not grandfather the habit.
The daily loss does not pause for the print. A slippage stop during CPI, NFP, or FOMC debits the 5% day immediately. You can be flat a second late and still have donated the cash. The static 10% floor is not the line a single news wick is trying to find. The day is.
Five minutes before, five minutes after
The funded window is short on purpose. It is not a 30-minute courtesy buffer written into the BrightFunded card, and it is not a two-minute window borrowed from another firm. It is five minutes before the red-folder event and five minutes after it. Entries and the scramble of last-second modifications belong outside that window.
You can sign up for Venasri and keep a funded profile that is quiet in that window while the Phase 1 profile is still allowed to hold a planned position. Mixing the profiles is how a funded login inherits an evaluation news bot.
The wick still spends the $5,000 day
If you are already in a trade when the window opens, a stop that is in the market can still fill. The fill counts. On $100,000, 4.25% is $4,250, which is the Equity Guard lock used for this firm, $750 inside the official $5,000. Being flat before the print means the slip-through case does not exist. Being in the trade with a $2,000 stop means a news fill uses almost half the day even if the rule team later debates the timestamp.
Mark the funded blackout on Equity Guard as a flatten, not as a warning. Phase 1 and Phase 2 can keep a planned stop through a release. The funded book should not discover the difference live.
Messages and the bot during the release
The 2,000 server-message cap is easy to hit if a bot rewrites stops through the print. That is a second way to fail a news morning: the cash loss stays under 5%, and the message log does not. Personal EAs are allowed. They are not allowed to become a latency tool into the release, and group copy-trading stays banned.
Bot Control should block new funded entries for those five minutes on each side and should avoid a burst of modifications while the spread is wide. Trade2Earn does not pay you to be in the print. Tokens on closed lots are not worth a funded breach or a $5,000 debit.
