The FX lot is awkward and the gold lot is a trap if you widen it
The 2-step day is $1,250. The static maximum is $2,500, so $22,500 equity ends the account. Half of 1% is $125. Majors pay $10 per pip at one standard lot, so a 20-pip stop wants 0.62 lots and about $124. A 0.70 lot because the ladder looks nicer is $140. Gold is the clean instrument: a quarter lot with a 50-pip stop is $125, because a quarter of 50 times $10 is $125.
The mistake is borrowing that quarter lot and putting it on an 80-pip stop, which is $200, or adding a second quarter lot because the first one looks small. Two gold ideas are $250 and they are often the same US dollar trade. Bot controls should count correlated metals as one risk.
Phase 1 cash equals the maximum, and one winner books the day count
Phase 1 is $2,500, the same cash as the maximum loss. Phase 2 is $1,250, the same cash as one full day. Three profitable days of at least half of 1% still apply. On this balance that day is $125, so a single 1R winner qualifies and a $90 scratch does not. The symmetry tempts people to risk $250 so the target feels close. Five such losses are the whole day.
The 1-step on $25,000 is a $1,000 day and a $1,500 trailing maximum. If you are in that product, the $1,250 note is already $250 too loose. Read the contract before you raise the lot to celebrate a green week, because a trailing 6% can shrink leftover room after the week you are celebrating. Create a Venasri login and keep the two products on separate cards.
A $1,000 open gain is not spare cash at midnight
The daily anchor is the higher of balance or equity at 00:00. A $1,000 floating gold gain is 4% of this account. Held through the snapshot, it can become the base the next day is hung from. A full reversion then spends $1,000 of a $1,250 day while yesterday closed profit still looks excellent. Leave a runner only if the runner cash is small next to $1,250.
Weekend holds are allowed. Sunday gaps count in the new day. A funded account later lives with a 2-minute news window, and a slipped stop still costs dollars against $1,250. The on-demand payout mark is 10% closed profit, or $2,500, which again matches the maximum. Making the target does not deepen the floor.
Flatten near $1,062 rather than at a round $1,000
Equity Guard on the 2-step belongs near $1,062 of daily loss, not at a tidy $1,000 and not at the official $1,250. The $1,000 level gives away more buffer than this account can spare if gold slips. The $1,250 level is the firm print, which is too late to be your exit. The 1-step should sit near $812 against the $1,000 day.
Index risk at $1 per point puts a 50-point stop at 2.50 CFD lots for $125. That is a large-looking ticket for a $25,000 screen and it is still the planned unit. A 100-point stop at that same 2.50 lots is $250, a double. Write the point distance before you write the lot. The 60-second stop rule still applies the moment the index order fills.
