Two products, one wick
On a standard evaluation, news is permitted. You may be in the position when the number prints. On Lightning and Instant, news is restricted and the consistency rule is 30% to 40%. Traders practice the legal evaluation version and then take the same CPI ticket on Instant because the payout can clear as soon as 24 hours after the first profitable funded day. The ticket is the breach. The $4,000 line is a second, optional way to lose.
Open a Venasri account and store the tier next to the symbol. A calendar block that only exists on Instant and Lightning will not fire on a 2-Phase login, and a 2-Phase habit will not become legal by being copied upward.
The stop counts even when the trade was allowed
Permission to hold through a release is not a refund. If gold runs a 0.10 lot through 50 pips, that is about $500 at $10 per pip. If you were in 0.80 lots, it is about $4,000, the entire 2-Phase day, in one print. The 1-Phase day is only $3,000, so the same 0.80 lot is already a breach with room to spare. The 3-Phase static maximum is $5,000. A news loss of $4,000 leaves $1,000 of lifetime room.
Equity Guard should flatten a 2-Phase day at $3,250, before the official $4,000, including during the print. Set that on Equity Guard. On the 1-Phase the flatten has to sit inside $3,000. The guard does not know that the evaluation "allows news." It knows the cash line.
A legal spike can still be 40% of the cycle
On Lightning or Instant, a day above 30% to 40% of cycle profit fails the score even if news trading had been tolerated. A $4,000 CPI winner needs $10,000 of total profit before a 40% reading clears, and about $13,333 before a 30% reading clears. The 2-Phase target is $10,000. One news day can be the entire target and the entire consistency problem. Standard evaluations are not given that score in the rule card. Do not import it backward, and do not forget it when you leave the evaluation.
Five minimum trading days mean you do not have to use the release to finish the clock. A $500 day, 0.50%, counts as trading. It does not have to be the folder. EAs may trade news on a standard phase and may not exist at all on Instant. Weekend add-ons do not turn Sunday into a news exemption.
Block Lightning and Instant, size the rest
Bot Control should hard-block new risk on Lightning and Instant around CPI, NFP, and FOMC, and on standard evaluations it should cap the idea at $500 so an allowed hold cannot be an $4,000 hold. The daily reset is 00:00 GMT+2 or GMT+3. A float held through the number and then through midnight can rebase the next day if that tier uses the higher of equity.
The $475 evaluation is cheaper than a second Instant purchase after a news bot fired once. If you want the print, use the phase that permits it, at $350 to $650 of risk, and accept that the stop is real money. If you want the fast payout, be flat for the folder.
