The working lot is 0.10, not the cap
The loss band is $350 to $650. A 50-pip stop at 0.10 lots is $500, inside the band, because 0.10 lots is $10 per pip. A 70-pip stop at 0.10 lots is $700, above the band, so the lot has to fall toward 0.07 to stay near $500. The cap of 0.80 to 1.45 standard lots is a ceiling. At 0.80 lots the pip value is $80, so 50 pips equal $4,000 and 70 pips equal $5,600. At 1.45 lots, 50 pips equal $7,250, which is through the daily line and into the static 8% floor.
$7,250 also exceeds the 1-Step's starting $6,000 trail. Trading the cap is not a gold strategy. It is a one-candle exit. Open a Venasri account and save 0.10 lots as the $100K Goat gold default, with 0.80 marked as a number you do not use with a wide stop.
A $3,200 gold day can pass the loss test and fail the payout
The daily line allows a $3,200 winner. Instant and On-Demand tiers do not, if that day is more than about 40% of an $8,000 cycle. 3,200 divided by 8,000 is exactly 40%. One gold runner can be the payout delay even though Equity Guard never saw a loss. The on-demand path still wants three separate days of $500. A single COMEX trend does not log three days.
Flatten losing days at $3,250, which is 3.25%, on Equity Guard. That number is $50 above the 40% consistency dollar on an $8,000 cycle, so the loss guard and the payout cap are almost the same size for opposite reasons. Do not treat $3,250 as permission to let a winner run to $3,250 on a young cycle.
News profit can vanish and the stop will not
Funded accounts have a 2-minute window around high-impact news. Profit booked inside it can be excluded unless the add-on is on. A stop filled by the CPI wick is real and counts toward the $4,000 immediately. Holding gold so you are "in the news" risks the full ticket for a winner the firm may not pay. The 2,000 request cap also punishes a trail that twitches through the spike.
Weekend holding is allowed under standard crypto and CFD margin limits. Sunday gold gaps hit the daily budget that was snapshotted at 00:00 UTC+2 or UTC+3 from the higher of balance or equity. A +$1,400 float raises the next base before the gap. Partial it. The 1-Step trail will also have stepped up if Friday's close was strong. Monday is then a tighter maximum plus a gap.
One ticket, fifty pips, five hundred dollars
Bot Control should allow one 0.10 gold position, refuse 0.80 unless the stop is so short that the dollar is still inside $650, and freeze new entries for the funded news window. Sixteen $500 winners are the $8,000 Phase 1 target, and you still need 3 trading days. The $398 fee is not a license to find out what 1.45 lots feels like.
Phase 2 is $5,000 under the same $4,000 day. Keep the lot. If you bought the 10% static path, the floor is $90,000 rather than $92,000, and the gold ticket does not get larger because the floor is wider. The extra room is for survival, not for a bigger COMEX bet.
