Earn the fee in R, not in one oversized gold ticket
$549 is a bit more than one $500 loss. It is not a target that belongs inside a single trade. Classic daily loss is $5,000. The static maximum is $10,000. Phase 1 is $10,000 and Phase 2 is $8,000, with four minimum trading days. The unit is $500: 2.50 lots of EURUSD on a 20-pip stop, or 1.00 lot of XAUUSD on a 50-pip stop, at $10 per pip and $10 per 0.10.
A 1.50 lot gold stop at 50 pips is $750. Two of them are $1,500, and a 70-pip version of 1.45 lots is about $1,015. That is a structural idea, not the default click. Bot controls should show the dollar risk from lot and stop together, because 1.00 lot looks modest next to $100,000 and is already the whole unit.
Phase 2 is $8,000 and the payout button is only $1,000
People collapse three different dollars into one mood. The evaluation still needs $8,000 in Phase 2. The funded payout can be requested after $1,000 of profit, which at 80% is $800 and at 90% is $900. The scale, if it comes, changes the balance the 5% is applied to. Hitting $1,000 during Phase 2 does not finish Phase 2 and does not open a payout on an evaluation. Read the stage.
The 45% score sits on Fast Track and on daily payout requests. Forty-five percent of $1,000 is $450, so a $700 day blocks a minimum payout until the pool is about $1,556. Forty-five percent of the $10,000 Phase 1 target is $4,500. Create a Venasri login and track best-day share beside the $500 unit. One number keeps you alive. The other gets you paid.
One Phase on this balance is a $4,000 day, not a discount
One Phase daily loss is $4,000. The end-of-day trail starts near $6,000, floor around $94,000. A Classic guard and a Classic lot copied onto that login are both wrong. Seven $500 stops are $3,500, almost the entire One Phase day. The upper band of $650 is already too heavy if you want seven mistakes. After a close at $103,000 the 6% trail sits near $96,820, so the lifetime room shrank while you were celebrating.
Platforms are MT5, TradeLocker, and cTrader. Funded stops are mandatory. The request cap is 2,000 a day. Weekend holds are Swing only. News on a funded account is a 2-minute window, and a CPI slip on 1.00 lot of gold still hits the day that is left, not a fresh $5,000. The clock is 00:00, UTC+2 or UTC+3, and a $3,000 float at the snapshot is 3% of the account handed to the next session.
The working exit is $4,250, and One Phase is $3,250
Equity Guard on Classic should flatten near $4,250, leaving $750 before $5,000. On One Phase flatten near $3,250. The $549 fee is smaller than that $750 pocket. Do not risk the pocket trying to feel the fee was worth it. If open profit reaches several thousand dollars, partial before midnight so the equity snapshot cannot turn a good day into a tighter tomorrow.
Sixteen ideas at $500 are $8,000 of gross risk, which is the shape of Phase 2 if the net is patient. Ten clean 2R winners would build Phase 1 and you will not get ten clean winners. The plan assumes losses and refuses to answer them with a larger lot. That refusal is the risk plan. The lot chart is just where it shows up.
