The lot band and the pip price
Keep the $100,000 challenge between 0.80 and 1.45 standard lots. The pricing note in the plan treats a 0.10 move as $10 per pip. If you start a free Venasri account, store that pair of numbers on the gold symbol only. Copying them onto a forex pair, or onto a $200,000 login, is how the cash risk silently changes.
The 2-Step maximum remains a static 10%, or $10,000 from the initial balance. A gold campaign can fail the 5% day many times over before that lifetime floor is the binding one. Size for the day.
Why the stop stays inside 50 to 70 pips
The structural stop is 50 to 70 pips. Wider than that, a COMEX open wick is large enough to matter against the daily line even inside the lot cap. Tighter than the structure, you will be trailed out by noise and tempted to re-enter, which is a different way to spend the day.
Do not assume the top of both ranges is automatically safe. Multiply the lot you clicked by the stop you clicked and compare it with the $5,000 day. Equity Guard belongs under that 5% line. On the 1-Step path the day is 3%, so the same gold lot is a larger fraction of the account.
COMEX open versus the Prague day
The wick that matters is the COMEX open, not a slow London drift. If your stop sits in the zone the open routinely trades through, you donated the risk before the thesis started. Wait for that wick to print, then use the 50 to 70 pip structure that remains.
Daily loss resets at 00:00 CE(S)T from the day-start balance plus floating profit and loss. A gold runner still open at that clock can turn a closed green day into a new day's loss when the float drops. Partials that close before Prague midnight are part of the gold plan, not an optional extra.
Weekend gold is a Swing decision
Standard funded accounts must be flat before the weekend, and they restrict red-folder news in the 2-minute window on each side of the release. Swing allows the hold at 1:30 maximum leverage and lifts the news block. Open MT5 bot control on MT5, MT4, cTrader, or DXtrade and match gold's holding rules to that tier. The 2,000 request ceiling still applies if you trail the gold stop all afternoon.
Four minimum trading days and targets of 10% then 5% do not change because the symbol is gold. A single COMEX ticket that makes most of the 10% can still be reviewed, because FTMO has no hard consistency formula and still flags extreme one-ticket gambling.
