Fifteen percent applies to their capital, above the old peak
The payout is a performance fee on allocated seed and on third-party investor capital. It is not an 80% split of a personal challenge balance. Quarterly distribution looks at the high-water mark. If investors made $100,000 of new profit above that mark, the fee is $15,000. If the quarter only climbed back to the old peak, the fee is zero no matter how busy the blotter looks.
A 5% investor profit on $100,000 of followed capital is $5,000, and the fee is $750. The same 5% on $400,000 of followed capital is $20,000, and the fee is $3,000. The percentage did not change. The base did. Start on Venasri and track followed capital separately from the login you click on.
A larger seed is not a permit to raise your own lot
The risk engine normalizes the copied DARWIN toward a monthly VaR target around 6.5%. When your signal is stable, more capital can follow at a risk the investors already understand. If you double your own lot because the seed got bigger, Risk Stability and Capacity fall, the D-Score has a worse sample, and the monthly allocation weight can shrink. You sized yourself out of the scale you just earned.
Keep the signal account on the same cash unit that built the record. On a $100,000 reference that is about $500, or 0.50%, inside a $3,250 daily reference. The millions mentioned in the incubator note are a possible investor book. They are not a balance you replicate 1:1 with 5.00 extra lots on Monday.
Seed weight follows the score, not a published calendar
There is no public ladder in the firm table that says the account doubles every four months. Weight moves with the D-Score and with drawdown. A 10% hole, $10,000 on a $100,000 reference, leaves the track record in place and cuts the capital that follows. Ten trading days is the minimum sample, not the moment a scale is owed.
Attributes that help are the boring ones: similar size, similar hold time, no single ticket that is many times the morning's lot. Bot controls that freeze the unit are a scaling tool on this firm, because the product being scaled is trust in the signal.
A $2,500 flatten protects the fee base
Equity Guard at $2,500 on the $100,000 reference stops one day from consuming most of the $3,250 figure and half of the $6,500 monthly VaR target. A day like that is also a bad sample for the score that decides next month's weight. The 15% fee cannot be charged on capital that stopped following you.
Payouts wait for the quarter and for the high-water mark. Raising risk in the last week to manufacture a fee is how the mark survives and the score does not. Trade the same unit through the quarter. Let the allocation, not your lot button, be the thing that scales.