The lifetime floor is two daily lines
Enhanced 2-Step on $5,000 is a 5% day and a static 10% maximum from the initial balance. In cash that is $250 today and $500 for the account, so equity at $4,500 is the end. Phase 1 needs $500. Phase 2 needs $250. The minimum trading-day count is zero and there is no consistency score, so the rules allow a fast path. They do not allow a path that spends the $500 hole.
Express on the same $5,000 is a 4% day, which is $200, and a trailing 6% maximum, which is $300 at the start. A note that still says $250 will already be late. Sign up on Venasri with the product name stored next to the balance so the $200 book and the $250 book stay apart.
A $25 stop is 0.12 lots of FX or 0.05 lots of gold
The working unit is $25. On a major with a $10 pip value at 1.00 lot, a 20-pip stop at 0.12 lots costs $24. At 0.13 lots the same stop is $26 and the unit is already gone. Gold pays $10 per 0.10 move at 1.00 lot. A 50-pip stop at 0.05 lots is $25. A 0.10 lot gold idea, which looks tiny on a larger screenshot, is $50 here and is 1% of the account.
If the 50-pip gold stop fills at 100 pips because the spread widened, 0.05 lots costs $50, a fifth of the entire day. There is no second idea after that if the morning already lost once. Bot controls should hard-cap gold at 0.05 lots on this balance unless the stop is shorter and the cash risk still prints $25 or less.
Phase 1 is the same cash as the entire maximum
At $25 risk, a 2R winner pays about $50. Ten of those, with no losers, are the $500 Phase 1 target. You will have losers, so the real path is longer. What fails this account is risking $75 to finish faster. Three such losses are $225, which is the day with $25 of spread still unused. The static floor is the same $500 as the target, so a hero attempt and a dead account are the same size.
The daily anchor is 00:00 balance. A $150 open winner is 3% of this book. Close it if you want the next session to start from cash you have booked. Weekend holding, when the contract includes it, stretches that decision from Friday to Sunday. News is open in the evaluation and tighter once the account is funded.
Flatten near $212, and keep Instant manual
Official Enhanced death on the day is $250. Equity Guard should flatten near $212, about 4.25% of $5,000, and leave a pocket for a gold spread. Express should flatten closer to $162 because the official day is $200 and the trail starts near $300. A guard copied from a $100,000 article will never see a number this small.
Instant funding on a budget this size is still manual. An EA that was fine on a friend's Enhanced login is a breach here at the first order. Stay under 2,000 order updates in a day if you are on an evaluation that allows automation. Ten full $25 losses are the whole $250 day. An eleventh loss is a conversation the account does not survive.
