One unit is already 15% of the session
3.25% of $5,000 is $162.50. The 10% reference is $500. Phase 1 is 5%, or $250, and Phase 2 lists $0 of extra profit. The 6.5% monthly VaR target is $325, which is exactly two full days. You can lose the month in two bad sessions at this size, and you can lose the day in seven ordinary mistakes.
The minimum sample is still 10 trading days. A $250 target at $25 risk is ten clean 1R winners, which is the whole day-count if you place one winner a day and never lose. Real paths need the spare attempts inside a smaller unit, closer to $23, if you want seven losses to fit. Open a Venasri account and save $25 as a ceiling, not as a starting dare.
The lot is 0.12 on FX or 0.05 on gold
A 20-pip stop on a major at $10 per pip needs 0.125 lots for $25. Use 0.12 lots and the risk is $24. A 0.20 lot click, which feels like the smallest serious FX size, is about $40 and is a quarter of the day. Gold at 0.05 lots with a 50-pip stop is $25. At 0.10 lots it is $50, almost a third of $162.50.
A 20-pip gold slip on 0.05 lots is another $10. That sounds trivial until you remember the spare room under the day, after six planned losses, was $12.50. Bot controls should cap this login at 0.12 FX lots for a 20-pip stop and 0.05 gold lots for a 50-pip stop.
The small book is still a signal someone may copy
A $500 hole is 10%. It lowers the D-Score and the monthly seed weight. The track record remains. On a $5,000 login the investor copy, if you earn one, is a separate pot that pays 15% of its profit above the high-water mark. Raising the lot because you hope the copy will be large is how a $5,000 signal starts printing $50 losses it cannot house.
Keep 0.05 and 0.12 as the whole personality of the account. Ten days of that shape is a record. Two days of doubled lots are the month, because two times $162.50 is the $325 VaR target.
Flatten near $125, which is five units
Equity Guard at 2.50% is $125 on this balance. Five losses at $25 reach it exactly. That cuts the session before the sixth and seventh can spend the $162.50 reference. A guard imported from a $100,000 article, set at $2,500, will never see this account. It is five times the entire maximum.
There is no midnight deletion to catch you. There is equity at every hour. If a 0.05 lot gold position is still open into a data print, the slip counts against $162.50 immediately. Flat is a position at this size.
