Phase 2 and the daily loss are the same $1,250
Phase 2 is 5%, $1,250. The 2-Step day is also $1,250. Finishing Phase 1 at $2,000 and then losing one full day puts Phase 2 back to zero while the $2,500 maximum still has $1,250 of room. Equity Guard on this balance is a $1,250 problem. The lifetime floor is not the line that usually ends Phase 2.
1-Step daily loss is $750 and the static maximum is $1,500. Lite is a static 8%, or $2,000, which equals the 2-Step Phase 1 target. Three products, three floors, one headline balance. Five minimum trading days apply to the evaluation.
The $125 lot budget
0.50% is $125. The lot is the volume that loses $125 at the stop. It is not 1.45 gold lots, which belong to the $100,000 plan. Manual Trade Guard should attach that $125 stop and keep partials inside 200 trades and 2,000 modifications. A $25,000 account has the same activity cap as a much larger one.
The first payout is 21 days, or 5 days on Stellar 1-Step. The late bonus is $1,000, which is less than this account's $1,250 day and less than the $2,500 floor. The split is 80% to 95%, plus 15% of challenge profits. Create a Venasri account before you mix the bonus with the daily line.
Account protection
The base is day-start balance with an equity check at 00:00, GMT+2 or GMT+3. An open gold winner of a few $125 units raises the next base. Weekend holds are allowed, so that check is a Friday decision. Sunday's gap spends the new $1,250.
News is allowed in the challenge and restricted on funded accounts for 5 minutes around high-impact releases unless an add-on applies. There is no CFD consistency score. Futures use 40%. The $100,000 fee of $549 is not deducted from the $2,000 target.
Allocation room versus daily room
A $25,000 login is well under the $300,000 cap on one identical EA strategy. You can still fail at trade 200 or at a $1,250 loss. The allocation headline is the loose constraint. The day is the tight one. 1-Step makes it tighter at $750.
Static floors do not trail. Being up $1,000 does not move the $2,500 line closer. It also does not give you a wider day. The next session still starts with a $1,250 allowance measured from the rollover base, not from your mood.