Instant funding rejects the bot that Enhanced allows
Hantec Trader sells three products. Enhanced 2-Step and Express 1-Step allow an Expert Advisor. Instant does not. The failure mode is ordinary: a trader passes, or buys, the manual tier and forgets the EA is still loaded on the same MT5 login. The first managed order is the violation, even when the stop is a tidy 0.50% and the day is nowhere near 5%.
Put automation only on the contract that names it. If the working book is Instant, entries and exits are manual, and protection has to be attached by you or by a risk tool that the firm treats as allowed trade management rather than a strategy EA. Bot controls should be switched off on any login whose contract says manual.
00:00 records balance, and the float stays a float
The daily anchor is the balance at 00:00 Hantec MT5 server time. Open profit does not raise tomorrow's loss line. That surprises people who learned a higher-of-equity rule somewhere else and held a $3,000 gold runner through the snapshot expecting a fatter cushion. On Hantec the cushion appears when the profit is closed and becomes balance.
A floating loser does the damage immediately. Equity is what the 5% test watches against that fixed balance. On $100,000 the line is $5,000. A 1.50 lot gold position is $15 per pip. A 200-pip slide is $3,000, and a second leg of the same size finishes the day. Close or cut the float before the clock if you do not want the new session to inherit it.
The evaluation news rule and the funded news rule differ
Evaluations permit news. Funded accounts add a two-minute restriction around high-impact releases. A CPI stop that slips after the print still counts against the daily balance line. The spread on Hantec Markets gold can be tight at noon and violent at the number. Tight spreads are a cost advantage in calm hours. They are not a promise during NFP or an FOMC minute.
There is no consistency score on Enhanced or Express, and the minimum day count is zero, so one large green session can clear a 10% Phase 1 target. The same freedom creates the hidden loss: a $6,000 open winner that gives back $5,100 crosses the day even though the closed blotter still shows a gain. Create a Venasri login and mark the product, because Instant, Express, and Enhanced do not share this trap.
Put a cash flatten in front of the official print
Equity Guard should flatten Enhanced near $4,250 of daily loss on $100,000, which is 4.25% and $750 inside the $5,000 line. Express should flatten near $3,250 because that day is $4,000. A guard copied from a video about a different firm will sit at the wrong dollar level and fire late, or never.
Keep order updates under 2,000 for the day. A trail that modifies on every tick can exhaust the ceiling on a single London gold swing. Weekend holding, if you bought the option, still feeds Sunday gaps into the balance test. The midnight event on this firm is a balance snapshot, and the breach people miss is the bot on the manual tier.
