City Traders Imperium (CTI) 2026 Verified Guide Updated 2026-10-17 Verified Against Venasri MT5 Engine

City Traders Imperium (CTI) Daily Drawdown Rules: Exact 00:00 server time Rollover Math & Protection

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City Traders Imperium daily drawdown rules enforce a 5% daily loss ($5,000 on $100K) on 2-Step from the higher of day-start balance or equity at 00:00 server time, and 4% ($4,000) on 1-Step, against a static 10% max loss (smart trailing 6% on 1-Step) while targeting 10% then 5% with three 0.5% profitable days.

A CTI daily calculator that ignores the Stop-Loss clock is incomplete. You can be at $97,400, well inside the $95,000 2-Step floor, and still lose the account at 00:00:45 after a fill because no SL was attached. The 5% math and the 60-second math fail you independently. Count both.

City Traders Imperium (CTI) Daily Loss Limit 5% ($5,000 on $100K)

Max Drawdown Model 10% (Smart/Trailing)

Phase 1 / Phase 2 Targets 10% / 5%

Venasri Guard Cut-Off 4.25% (3s Auto-Flatten)

Activate Free MT5 Protection Open Equity Guard & Kelly Sizing Launch 24/7 MT5 Bot

City Traders Imperium (CTI) Daily Drawdown Rules: obsidian vault and brass balance scale representing prop firm evaluation rules and drawdown — City Traders Imperium (CTI) Daily Drawdown Rules

Balance-Anchored Daily Breach Floor $95,000.00 FTMO / FundedNext / E8 day-start balance basis

Equity-Anchored Rollover Breach Floor $96,900.00 FundingPips / The5ers / Alpha Capital higher-of-equity basis

Venasri Pre-Breach Equity Guard Cut-Off $97,650.00 Auto-flattens MT5 0.75% before firm liquidation

Exact MT5 Lot Size (XAUUSD / EURUSD) & Streak Buffer 2.00 Lots (8.5 losses to guard) $500.00 risk per ticket · 3-second Equity Guard active

Higher-of 5% at 00:00, plus live equity

2-Step $100K. H = max(balance, equity) at 00:00. Floor = H minus $5,000. Flat start: $95,000. After a +$2,400 midnight float: H $102,400, floor $97,400. 1-Step uses H minus $4,000 and a trailing 6% max. Three 0.5% days ($500 closed each on $100K) are a separate counter. Hitting 10% on one Monday does not zero that counter.

Start a free Venasri account and show four numbers: daily floor, max floor, SL-missing flag, 0.5% day count. CTI is the firm where the third number ends more accounts than the first.

Worked example: legal 4% day, illegal missing SL

2-Step, day-start $100,000, floor $95,000. You click 1.0 lot GBPUSD, no SL, "I'll add it at the kettle." Spread plus 18 pips is minus $1,800. You are fine on 5%. At second 61 the desk can already treat the ticket as a process fail. Even if they wait, a 40-pip spike to minus $5,200 finishes the daily line and still had no SL. Venasri Equity Guard at 4.25% would have flattened the spike. Manual Trade Guard would have prevented the process fail. You want both, because CTI enforces both.

1-Step trailing 6% plus 4% daily is ThinkCapital Lightning's cousin. Do not bring 2-Step 1.0 lot size to 1-Step CTI.

0.5% days versus the 5% floor

You need three days of at least $500 closed profit on $100K. People grind those with 0.20 lot scalps, then one revenge 2.0 lot ticket spends the 5% day and wipes two green days of work. 24/7 MT5 Bot Control should cap size at 0.50% risk until the three 0.5% days are in the bag, then still cap at 0.50% because the 5% floor did not get wider. Salary qualification later is the same behaviour, paid $500/month.

News straddle into a 2-minute window is a funded fail even if daily equity is green. The calculator should refuse the second leg of a straddle from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after red-folder time.

Bridge, SL attach, CTI server cap

The ZeroMQ MT5 Bridge should attach SL on fill, then trail in steps under 2,000 messages. If Match-Trader is your CTI platform, do not assume the MT5 Guard sees those tickets. One platform, one Guard, one SL policy. Reset clock 00:00 CTI server time, Guard 4.25% 2-Step / 3.25% 1-Step, max lock 9.0% static / 5.25% trail, SL-missing flatten at 3 seconds.

That last setting is the CTI daily calculator's unique row. FTMO pages do not need it. CTI pages do.

Equity Guard Circuit Breaker

Watches account equity and can flatten open MT5 positions

Warning: Armed Critical: Armed Auto-Flatten: Active

Behavioral Trade Monitor

Alerts when order flow turns impulsive

Revenge alerts: Clear Stop changes: Locked Rapid edits: Clear

Manual Trade Guard

Active on XAUUSD / EURUSD · News pause available

Stop-loss: On Breakeven: On Partials: On

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Frequently Asked Questions: City Traders Imperium (CTI) Daily Drawdown Rules: Exact 00:00 server time Rollover Math & Protection

Can I fail CTI daily drawdown without hitting 5%?

Yes. Missing a Stop-Loss within 60 seconds of fill is a separate breach. A news straddle inside the funded 2-minute window is another. The 5% equity line is not the only daily fail.

Does CTI use higher-of equity at midnight?

Yes on the 5% 2-Step day. The 00:00 snapshot takes the higher of balance or equity, so floating profit raises tomorrow's floor. That is unlike Lark Funding's closed-balance stamp.

How many 0.5% days does CTI require?

Three profitable days of at least 0.5% of initial per phase ($500 on $100K). A single 10% day does not replace the other two. The salary track expects the same habit after you fund.

What Guard settings match CTI 2-Step $100K?

Daily flatten 4.25% ($4,250), static max lock 9.0% ($9,000), SL attach on every fill in milliseconds, and a 0.50% per-trade cap until three 0.5% days are logged.