1.25 lots costs $250 and 1.50 lots costs $300
The day is $1,625. The maximum is $5,000. Phase 1 is $2,500. Phase 2 adds $0. The monthly VaR target is $3,250, two full days. The 0.50% unit is $250, which is 1.25 lots on a 20-pip major and 0.50 lots of gold on a 50-pip stop. Six planned losses are $1,500, leaving $125, half a unit, under the day.
At $300 the sixth loss is the breach. Traders round up because 1.25 looks unfinished next to a $50,000 balance. The cushion was $125. The round number spends it. Bot controls should send 1.25, or 1.20 if the symbol steps in tenths, and refuse 1.50.
Half a lot of gold is the whole unit, not a starter
0.50 lots of XAUUSD is $5 per pip. A 50-pip stop is $250. A 70-pip stop is $350, and four of those are $1,400, with the fifth at $1,750 through $1,625. People add a second 0.50 lot because half a lot feels modest on $50,000. Two gold ideas are $500 if they can lose together, which is two units and almost a third of the day.
A 25-pip slip on 0.50 lots is $125, the entire spare room after six clean $250 losses. The COMEX open and CPI are where that slip is ordinary. News is allowed here. The fill still counts against $1,625 the moment it prints.
Two bad days are the month, and the login remains
Two sessions at the full $1,625 reference equal the $3,250 monthly VaR target. A 10% path to $5,000 of damage lowers the D-Score and the seed weight and leaves the track record open. The 15% fee on followed capital needs that weight. Finishing Phase 1's $2,500 by doubling the unit for a few sessions can cost the allocation you wanted the profit to attract.
Ten trading days are still required. At one $250 idea a day, the target needs a run of winners on the order of ten 1R results, spread across the dates. Register with Venasri so the 1.25 lot plan is attached to this balance and not to a $100,000 template.
Flatten near $1,250, five units
Equity Guard at 2.50% is $1,250. That is five times $250, with $375 still between you and the $1,625 line. It is also exactly half of the Phase 1 target, which is a useful coincidence: the day you lose five units is not the day you try to win them back.
A guard set at the $5,000 maximum will sit quietly while this account has already had its month. The engine is continuous. Sunday gaps on 0.50 gold lots are $5 per pip. A 30-pip gap is $150, larger than the $125 cushion after a six-loss day. Hold the weekend only on a swing profile, and hold less than the intraday unit.
