The hard stop is the permission
The published EA line is short: allowed, provided every position carries a hard stop where the program tier requires one. That is the whole compliance sentence. Manual Trade Guard exists to put that stop on an MT5 fill immediately, then move it to breakeven after the first partial and scale the rest through TP1 to TP4. cTrader, Match-Trader, and DXtrade need the same price on their own tickets. The MT5 attach does not type itself onto the other three.
Daily loss is 4%, $4,000 on $100K. A missing stop on 1.00 lot of gold, with a $10 wick, is about $1,000, and a larger wick can reach the day. Prestige's static maximum is 10%, $10,000. Experienced and Master trail 6%. An EA sized for the static floor will overtrade the trail. Equity Guard at $3,250 is the daily backstop either way.
Two thousand requests is a stepping budget
Treat 2,000 order requests a day as the ceiling, not a target. A trail that modifies on every tick can exhaust it on one gold runner and still be late to the wick that matters. Step the stop at the partial. Leave it alone between partials. Evaluation news is permitted. The funded tier may restrict a window, and a stop that fills during CPI, NFP, or FOMC still counts toward the 4% day. Check the funded card before the EA is allowed to trade the print.
Bot Control is the place to pause entries after a losing close and to partial a Prestige swing before 00:00. There is no minimum trading-day rule, so the EA does not have to force a session just to tick a quota. Forcing trades is how request counts and daily loss rise together.
One EA, two drawdown contracts
Prestige can hold overnight and through the weekend. Selected trailing programs restrict that hold. An EA with a Friday runner will be legal on one login and a breach on the other. The 00:00 reset uses day-start balance and equity, so a winning float the EA refuses to partial will raise Tuesday's 4% base on the account that is allowed to hold. Split the presets. Do not clone them.
Consistency is not a best-day cap on Prestige or Experienced evaluations. That does not mean the EA may put the whole $10,000 Phase 1 target into one ticket. Eight losses at $500 reach the day. One $3,000 open loss on a trailing book can meet the 6% floor after a prior winner has already lifted it. The 80% split, scaling toward 90% and 100%, is paid on the account that still exists.
Prove the stop on a tiny fill first
The $499 fee on $100K is smaller than one naked gold mistake. Create a free Venasri account, connect MT5, and place a minimum test order. Confirm the stop appears at the fill, breakeven waits for the first target, and the partials reduce size. Then count modifications for that test and multiply by a normal day. If the projection is anywhere near 2,000, the trail is too chatty.
Withdrawals can start every 7 days from day 7, or from day 0 on selected programs. An EA that is flat and stopped will still be there on day 7. An EA that spent the request ceiling on Tuesday will not. Keep the hard stop, the $3,250 flatten, and the program name on the same card.
