0.25 lots is the budget and 0.30 lots is a different plan
Enhanced daily loss is 5%, which is $500 on $10,000. The static maximum is 10%, which is $1,000, so equity at $9,000 ends the evaluation. The 0.50% unit is $50. At $10 per pip on 1.00 lot, 0.25 lots with a 20-pip stop cost $50. Gold at $10 per 0.10 move needs 0.10 lots on a 50-pip stop to risk the same $50.
A nudge to 0.30 FX lots is $60 a stop. Eight full losses would be $480, inside the day on paper, and the ninth fill with spread is the breach. Stay on $50. Bot controls can reject the order when the computed cash risk is above $50, which is a better check than remembering the lot at the London open.
Phase 1 equals the entire maximum drawdown
Phase 1 is 10%, or $1,000. Phase 2 is 5%, or $500. The minimum day count is zero, so the firm does not force a slow calendar, and there is no best-day cap on Enhanced or Express. At a 2R payoff the $50 unit returns about $100. The Phase 1 target is on the order of ten net winners after losers take their share. Spending the $500 day on purpose, twice, equals the maximum and passes nothing.
Express changes the survival numbers on the same $10,000 label. Daily loss becomes 4%, or $400. The maximum becomes a trailing 6%, or $600 at the start. A trader who keeps a $500 mental model on a 1-step purchase is already through the official day while the note on the monitor still says there is room. Start on Venasri and write the product on the same line as the balance.
Closed profit changes tomorrow, open profit does not
The anchor is the balance at 00:00 Hantec MT5 time. A $400 floating gold winner is 4% of this account and it does not gift you a higher daily line. Bank it if you want tomorrow's 5% to be computed on a richer balance. Leave it open and a full giveback spends $400 of a fresh $500 hole while yesterday's closed blotter still looks fine.
Weekend holding is an option. If the contract includes it, Sunday gaps count against the new day's balance. Evaluation news is permitted. Funded accounts pick up a two-minute window around high-impact prints. A stop that slips in that window still debits the $500. The Hantec Markets book can be tight in calm hours and wide when the number hits.
The flatten belongs at $425
Equity Guard on Enhanced should cut the book near $425 of daily loss, 4.25% of $10,000, with $75 left before the official $500. On Express put it near $325 against the $400 day. Do not import a $4,250 figure from a $100,000 article. The guard will sit idle while this account is already closed.
Instant remains manual at this size. An EA allowed on Enhanced is a rule break on Instant at the first order. If automation is allowed on your contract, keep the day's order updates under 2,000. Ten 2R winners on the $50 unit are about $1,000. That is Phase 1, and it is also the size of the maximum hole.
