0.62 lots is correct and 0.70 lots is a raise
Enhanced daily loss is $1,250, 5% of $25,000. The static maximum is $2,500, so $22,500 equity is the end of the account. Half a percent is $125. Majors pay $10 per pip at 1.00 lot, so a 20-pip stop wants 0.625 lots. Use 0.62 lots and the cash risk is $124. Use 0.70 lots because the ladder looks nicer and you have added $16 of risk on every idea.
Gold is the clean instrument here. A 50-pip stop at 0.25 lots is $125, because 0.25 times 50 times $10 is $125. The mistake is borrowing the 0.25 lot and putting it on an 80-pip stop, which is $200, or adding a second 0.25 lot because the first one looks small. Two gold ideas are $250 and they are often the same US dollar trade. Bot controls should count correlated metals as one risk.
Phase 1 cash equals the maximum hole
The Phase 1 target is $2,500, the same figure as the maximum loss. Phase 2 is $1,250, the same figure as one full day. With no minimum day count and no consistency rule on Enhanced, a fast campaign is legal. It is also how traders justify a $250 unit. Two losses at $250 are $500. Five of them are $1,250, the whole day. The $125 unit needs more winners and it survives a morning that goes wrong.
Express on $25,000 is a $1,000 day, which is 4%, and a trailing maximum that starts at $1,500, which is 6%. If you are in that product, the $1,250 Enhanced note is already $250 too loose. If the 6% trails the high, a winning week reduces leftover room even though the starting $25,000 has not changed. Register with Venasri and read the contract line before you scale the lot up to celebrate the week.
A closed $1,000 changes the next day, a float does not
The daily anchor is balance at 00:00. A $1,000 floating gold gain is 4% of this account and it does not raise the breach line. A full reversion spends $1,000 of a $1,250 day while the closed-trade profit from earlier still looks excellent. Book the portion you want counted. Leave a runner only if the runner cash is small next to $1,250.
Weekend holds depend on the option you bought. Sunday open gaps land in the new day. Evaluation news is permitted, and a funded account later lives with a two-minute restriction. A slipped stop still costs dollars against $1,250. Direct Hantec Markets liquidity is a spread advantage in ordinary hours, not a gap guarantee at a red-folder print.
Flatten near $1,062 and ignore round-number comfort
Equity Guard on Enhanced belongs near $1,062 of daily loss, 4.25% of $25,000. A tidy $1,000 gives away more buffer than this account can spare if gold slips. The official $1,250 is the firm print, which is too late to be your exit. Express should sit near $812 against the $1,000 day.
Instant is still manual. Do not park an Enhanced EA on an Instant login of this size and call it the same risk plan. Order updates, where automation is allowed, stay under 2,000 for the day. The non-round 0.62 lot is the plan. The pretty 0.70 lot is a different account than the one you paid for.
