A $1,000 target sitting on a $400 day
Phase 1 is 10%, $1,000. Phase 2 is 5%, $500. You need the $1,000 without a $400 day. There is no minimum day count, so the calendar will not save you from stacking three $350 trades. Start a Venasri profile at $10,000 and refuse any lot that was built for $100,000.
Daily loss resets at 00:00 server time from the day-start balance and equity. Both the 1-step and 2-step daily rates are 4%, so the 1-step does not give you a softer $400. It gives you a $600 trail instead of Prestige's static $1,000. That is the tighter product, not the easier one.
GBPUSD at 0.20 lots for a $50 risk
GBPUSD on a $10-per-pip quote, 25-pip stop, $50 risk: the lot is 0.20, because 0.20 times $250 is $50. That ticket fits eight times inside $400. A 0.80 lot on the same 25-pip stop is $200, and the second one ends the day. The $10,000 account looks like it can hold a small standard lot. At 25 pips it cannot.
Put Equity Guard at about $320 of daily loss. You keep $80 of air under the firm's $400. If you are on the $600 trail, also mark $480 as the distance you will not give back from the equity high.
One gold lot is already too much
XAUUSD at 0.20 lots moves about $20 per $1. A $5 stop is about $100 of risk, already 1% of $10,000 and a quarter of the day. To risk $50 on gold, use about 0.10 lots with a $5 stop. A $20 stop on 0.20 lots is about $400, which is the daily line in a single candle.
Hard stops are required where the tier says so. Bot Control can place that stop at the fill and keep the account under 2,000 requests a day. News is allowed in the evaluation. The funded window is whatever that tier publishes, not a number you borrow from another firm.
Weekend gap versus a $400 day
Weekend holding is allowed on Prestige and restricted on selected trailing programs. A Sunday gap that costs $400 is a failed $10,000 account even if Friday's closed balance was $10,600. On the trail, Friday's open profit may already have pulled the $600 hole up. Giving the gap back on Sunday spends the new day and the trail together.
The split remains 80% to 90% and 100%, every 7 days from day 7 or day 0 on selected programs. There is no consistency rule on Prestige or Experienced. Pass the $1,000 Phase 1 in several $50 to $150 results so one reversal cannot cost the $400 you needed for the rest of the week.
