Five minutes funded, not thirty seconds of bravado
High-impact news on the funded stage: 5 minutes before and after, restricted unless your payout mode explicitly loosens it. Zero and some on-demand paths have extra consistency math (45 percent). A straddle that prints 4 percent of the week on NFP can satisfy daily 5 percent and still damage a consistency score. Venasri blackout at 30 minutes is stricter and is the one that keeps spreads out of the fill.
Evaluations are looser on news than funded. Training the click on Phase 1 is how Phase funded fails. If you need unlimited news, FTMO Swing or Breakout Crypto are different products with different clocks.
Weekend holding and the Friday leverage cut
Holds through Saturday are allowed on evaluation and selected funded models. Margin can drop before Friday close. A 0.20 gold lot that was 0.50 percent at weekday leverage can become a larger notional when leverage falls, which spends more of the 5 percent daily and 10 percent static (or Pro 6 percent, Flex 12 percent) than your card assumed. Recalculate lots Friday 12:00 UTC+3, not Friday 23:50.
UTC+3 midnight still happens on Saturday and Sunday if the book is open. A weekend floater raises Monday's higher-of-equity floor. Bank TP1 Friday if you cannot watch Dubai dawn.
Standard versus Pro versus Flex versus Zero
Standard: 5 percent daily, 10 percent static, 8/5 targets. Pro: 3 percent daily, 6 percent static. Flex: 4 percent daily, 12 percent static. Zero Instant: trailing plus 45 percent consistency. News and weekend footnotes differ by checkout. Do not paste Standard's 5-minute funded note onto a Zero account without reading Zero's own card. Do not paste Flex's 12 percent max onto Pro.
Blackout in the bot, snapshot in the guard
24/7 MT5 Bot Control should pause 30 minutes around red folders on funded Standard. Venasri Equity Guard should use max(balance, equity) at 00:00 UTC+3, including weekend days you hold. Flatten near 4.25 percent of that snapshot, not of $100,000 forever.
start free on Venasri on the evaluation so the 5-minute funded rule is not your first contact with a pause. Leverage cuts on Friday are a lot-size event. Treat them as one.
