The percentages match, and the clocks do not
A one-step description and the flagship path both carry 2.2% and 3% in the comparison math. On $100,000 the hard daily figure associated with Option 2 is $2,200, and the trail is $3,000 on both options. The profit target is 6%, or $6,000, followed by 0%. Zero means there is no second profit hurdle after the evaluation. It does not turn the trail off. The minimum is one trading day, which is why so many attempts try to finish before lunch.
That one-day minimum is the opposite of a five-day grind. It raises the odds that someone uses the largest contracts on the first morning. Option 1 is where that size meets a live trail. Option 2 is where the same size meets a $2,200 day that does not care about the close.
Pullback holders belong on Option 2, and fast flats still die if the lot is huge
If your trade needs 30 or 40 points of Nasdaq room, Option 2's end-of-day trail can survive a visit to that low, provided $2,200 was not touched and you are flat by 3:59 PM CT. Option 1 scores the visit immediately. Four NQ at $20 a point through 40 points is $3,200, which is the whole Option 1 trail on a dip you called normal. One NQ through 40 points is $800. The strategy did not change. The contract count did.
So the higher pass odds sit with the trader who picks Option 2 and keeps the unit near $500, or who picks Option 1 and refuses the extra contracts that made Option 1 attractive. Automation controls should encode that refusal, because the buying power will not.
Master adds Wednesday, 10 days, and a 40% share
Passing is a $6,000 problem with a one-day minimum. Getting paid is a Master problem: Wednesday, 10 active days, a best day at or under 40% of profit, and a split of 100% on the first $10,000 then 90%. Option 1 still does not scale you into a larger book for having passed. The intraday trail remains the intraday trail.
News is open in the evaluation and tighter on Master, where bracket scalps into Tier-1 releases are restricted. A one-day pass that used a CPI bracket has to delete that template before the first funded morning. The loss line will not delete it for you.
Choose the clock first, then put $1,450 or the live trail under it
Write the option on the same line as the balance. Then Equity Guard has a job. Option 2 flattens near $1,450 of the $2,200 day. Option 1 flattens on giveback from the high before $3,000 of live trail is used. Using the Option 2 number on Option 1 is how a $1,200 open dip, repeated across too many contracts, ends the account while the guard waits for a daily loss the contract may not have.
The listed fee at $100,000 is $145. Open a Venasri account before you pay it, with the option name on the card. A 1-step versus 2-step note that only reprints 2.2 and 3 has not chosen a clock.
