Write the four loss numbers before you compare targets
Express: 4% of day-start balance, $4,000, and a 6% trail, $6,000 at the start, floor near $94,000, rising with new highs. Enhanced: 5% of day-start balance, $5,000, and a static 10%, floor stuck at $90,000. Both reset at 00:00 server time. A strategy that uses a 50-pip gold stop at 1.20 lots risks about $600. Express can take fewer of those than Enhanced, and after a winning week Express can take fewer still.
Minimum days are zero on both, and neither has a consistency score. Create a Venasri login so the comparison is saved as two cards. Mixing a $5,000 mental day with a $4,000 real day is the entire failure mode of this page.
Enhanced's extra room is attached to a larger invoice
Phase 1 on Enhanced is 10%, $10,000. Phase 2 is 5%, $5,000. You must produce those gains inside a static $10,000 hole and a $5,000 day, which means the $10,000 target needs at least two sessions even if you were willing to use the whole day as profit, and you should not be willing. At a $500 unit you need many net winners, not one afternoon.
Express does not publish that same 10% then 5% pair in these rules. What it publishes is the tighter loss box. If your edge is a slow swing that gives back $3,000 on the way to $6,000, the trail can stop you while Enhanced would still show the original floor. If your edge is a wide gold stop, Enhanced's extra $4,000 of maximum room is the difference between a stopped idea and a dead account.
Pass odds improve when the flatten matches the day you bought
Equity Guard at 4.25% is $4,250, which is $250 inside an Enhanced day and $250 past an Express day. Express needs about 3.25%, $3,250. Using the Enhanced number on Express means the firm exits you first. Using the Express number on Enhanced means you flatten with $1,750 still legally available, which is safe and sometimes so tight that you abandon the guard.
A fair pass-odds statement is this: Express fails more easily on noise and on giveback, and Enhanced fails more easily on impatience with a $10,000 target. Pick the failure you can actually avoid. Then keep each idea near $350 to $500 so the product difference is the trail versus the target, not a random lot.