The five leaks and the $5,000 day
On a $100,000 2-Step account the day ends at $5,000. The five leaks are three or more trades inside 5 minutes after a loss, widening the stop, a burst of edits in 60 seconds, averaging down, and size above 2 times the planned lot. Any one of them can turn a planned 0.50% loss into something that no longer fits the day. The bot is where those order patterns get blocked before the fifth click.
1-Step daily loss is 3%, so the same cluster spends a smaller day. The list does not shrink because you bought the tighter product. It gets more expensive. Equity Guard still flattens on the cash line even if the behavior block misses one ticket.
A wider stop is a new trade you did not size
The original lot was sized for the original stop. Widening the stop raises the dollars at risk without a new plan. Averaging down adds a second position in the same idea while the first is losing. On a 5% day those two habits stack. The static 10% floor is not the line they usually hit. The daily line is.
60-second edits are the mechanical version of the same impulse. Each edit can also count toward the 2,000 modification cap, and a burst of new tickets counts toward 200 trades. You can breach activity rules and the 5% line in the same five minutes. The firm does not require you to pick only one way to fail.
Twice the lot on a book that was already sized
The lot plan on $100,000 sits between $350 and $650. A ticket above 2 times that plan is outside the band by construction. It does not need a second loss to matter. Create a Venasri account and set the planned lot as a ceiling the platform can see, not as a number you remember after the loss.
There is no consistency score on the Stellar CFD evaluations, so a revenge winner is not punished by a best-day rule. It is still a 5% risk if the next one loses. Futures books add a 40% consistency score, which means a revenge winner can also stall a payout.
What the flatten does not fix
Flattening at the daily line saves the account from the cash breach. It does not restore a stop you widened or a cluster you already sent. The next session still starts at 00:00 server time. If equity was distorted by the cluster, the higher-of check at rollover can make the following day thinner.
News windows on funded accounts are 5 minutes around high-impact releases. A revenge entry inside that window stacks a behavior leak on a news rule. Challenge phases allow news. Know which stage the login is in before you treat every red candle as a new signal.
