1-Step, 2-Step, Instant Funding Pro, and the salary track
City Traders Imperium (London / Dubai, founded 2018) sells a 1-Step Challenge, a 2-Step Challenge, and Instant Funding Pro on MT5 and Match-Trader. 2-Step: 10% Phase 1 ($10,000 on $100K), 5% Phase 2, 5% daily from the higher of day-start balance or equity at 00:00 server time, static 10% max, three minimum days, $509 on $100K. 1-Step: 4% daily, smart/trailing 6% max. Split 80% to 100%, plus $500/month fixed salary for qualified funded traders. Payouts every 14 days or on-demand at 10% profit. No time limits.
Risk-management EAs and self-owned EAs are allowed. Copy that sentence and still fail: SL must be on every trade, placed within 60 seconds of fill, and the server cap is 2,000 requests. You can start a free Venasri account specifically so Manual Trade Guard attaches SL in milliseconds instead of in your spare 59th second.
Higher-of 5% day, static 10% 2-Step, trail 6% 1-Step
2-Step daily is 5% with a higher-of snapshot at 00:00, so floating profit at midnight raises tomorrow's floor like DNA Funded, not like Lark. Max is static 10% ($90,000 on $100K). 1-Step daily 4%, smart trailing 6%. Three profitable days of 0.5%+ per phase are a consistency cousin: you cannot pass on one 10% lottery ticket without also printing two more 0.5% days (and you still need the days even if the target is already done).
Set Venasri Equity Guard to 4.25% on 2-Step and 3.25% on 1-Step. Add an SL-missing halt: if a fill exists 3 seconds without SL, flatten. That halt is more CTI-specific than the 5% number.
News straddle ban, weekend holds, salary qualification
100% split is the top of the ladder, not the default. Trade the 80% as if it were the product. If salary plus 100% arrives, Guard does not loosen. CTI funded books still have the same 5% / 10% (or 4% / 6%) math.
Manual Trade Guard is the CTI rule in software
Count 0.5% days in the panel. If you are at 9.6% in Phase 1 with only one 0.5% day, you are not passed. You need two more quiet green days. CTI will not round a 10% spike plus two flats into a certificate, and the salary track certainly will not.
