The stop has to appear where the fill lives
CTI runs on MT5 and Match-Trader. Manual Trade Guard should hear the fill and place the stop on that same login, fast enough to satisfy the 60-second rule. A stop drawn on a chart you are not trading is a sketch. The firm will not grade the sketch. If you use a bridge from an MT5 chart into the workflow, the proof is still the stop on the CTI position, not a line in a local terminal that is logged into a different account.
Test it with the smallest size you can. Create a Venasri login, send a test entry, and look at the CTI platform. If the stop is missing, you are not set up, no matter how polished the chart looks. Flatten the test. Fix the path. Then trade. The $509 fee is an expensive place to debug a connection.
Breakeven and four partials, then stop touching it
Once the initial stop is confirmed, move it to breakeven when TP1 pays, and scale out across TP1, TP2, TP3, and TP4. That is a handful of actions. It takes risk off and leaves a runner. It is also well inside a 2,000-request day if you do not trail on every tick between those levels. A tick trail is how a legal stop becomes a rejected modify during the New York open.
On a $500 planned risk, giving the whole $500 back after TP1 has already paid is how a qualifying day disappears. Bot controls should own the breakeven shift so you are not dragging the stop by hand while you negotiate. Hand dragging is also how stops get wider instead of tighter, which is the tilt path.
Point the guard at CTI equity, including the midnight read
Daily loss is 5% on 2-step, $5,000 on $100,000, from the higher of balance or equity at 00:00. Equity Guard has to read that equity, not a delayed screenshot and not a simulator. Set the flatten near $4,250 on 2-step and near $3,250 on 1-step. Include a weekend test. Holding is allowed, so the guard that only runs during your London session misses the Sunday gap it was bought for.
The 1-step smart trail is a second number. A daily flatten does not know the trail has stepped up. If you trade 1-step, add that watch in the same setup. Sharing one $4,250 preset across both products is how Match-Trader and MT5 get blamed for a configuration error.
A manual click is still a $500 idea
Clicking by hand does not authorize 2.00 lots of gold. At $10 per 0.10 move, 1.00 lot with a 50-pip stop is the $500 unit. The guard and the partials assume you entered inside the 0.35% to 0.65% band. They are not a pardon for a 2% click you typed because you were certain. Put the cash on the ticket first. Then let the tool attach the exit you are too slow to type inside a minute.
Funded news windows still apply after you pass. The setup should block new funded entries in the two minutes before a high-impact release and the two minutes after, without deleting the stop on a hold you already have. Evaluation and funded are different stages. Build the block now so the payout account is not the first time you discover the window.
