You cannot risk 8% and expect a 10% target for free
A 0.50% unit is $500. Sixteen losses are $8,000, already past the $5,000 day and most of the way through the static $10,000 floor if they cluster. The range of 10 to 16 trades is a winning sequence with some scratches, not a license to take sixteen full stops. To net $10,000 you need the average winner, after losers, to clear more than the risk you posted. A run of 1R trades with a 50% hit rate does not get there. You need the payoff, or more winners than the short end of the range.
Phase 2 is another $5,000, one full daily line in profit terms. Start on Venasri with both numbers visible. Traders who only write $10,000 tend to spend Phase 2 like house money.
Zero minimum days still cannot compress 10% into one session
The minimum is zero, so you are not waiting on a 20-day clock. The 5% day is the clock. A session that makes $5,000 has used the entire daily allowance as profit and has nothing left if it gives back. A session that tries to make $10,000 is asking for a 10% move inside a 5% rule. Split the target across several days at $500, and stop the day after two losses, $1,000, which is 20% of the line.
Express is a different pass. Its day is $4,000 and its maximum trails at 6%. Do not run this $4,250 flatten or this $10,000 story on Express. Bot controls should refuse a fourth trade once two $500 losers are on the Enhanced blotter.
The pass also survives messages, news, and the weekend switch
Advisors are allowed on Enhanced and capped at 2,000 messages. A pass that depends on a stop trailed every tick will fail the log before it fails the equity. Instant is manual only, so the advisor that passed Enhanced cannot follow you there. Evaluations allow news. The funded account adds two minutes. A strategy that only works on the CPI print has an expiry date at the moment you get paid.
Weekend holding is opt-in. A 60-pip gold gap on 1.00 lot is about $600, more than one unit, and it can open Monday already through your two-loss session cap. There is no consistency score to satisfy and none to hide behind. Day-start balance at 00:00 is the base. A float does not widen it.
Leave $750 and do not negotiate at $4,000 down
Equity Guard at $4,250 leaves $750 before the official $5,000. That pocket is one slipped gold stop, not a new idea. If you are down $4,000 you are eight units in and the target is getting further away, not closer. Flat until the next 00:00. The static floor at $90,000 is still $6,000 under a fresh $100,000 start after one bad day, and the second bad day can erase it.
The split after you pass is 80%, or 90% with the add-on, bi-weekly or 7 days. It pays the account that still exists. When the balance changes, rebuild $500 as 0.50% of the new figure before the next campaign. The $10,000 target was a $100,000 sentence. It is a different sentence on $50,000 and on $200,000.
