Four half-days beat one full day
Phase 2 is 5%, $1,250, the same cash as the daily loss. Phase 1 is $2,000. There is no minimum day count and no best-day cap, so the firm will accept a fast path and will also accept a failure at $1,250 down. Create a Venasri profile that quits the session near $1,000, not at the firm's print.
A 10% static maximum is $2,500, a $22,500 floor. An 8% static maximum is $2,000, equal to Phase 1. The 1-Step day is $1,000 and the trail starts at $1,500. Choose the card before you choose the $500 winner you are counting on.
Index points on a $25,000 book
At $1 per point, 2.5 lots times 50 points is $125. That fits ten times inside $1,250. US30 and NAS100 both use that formula only when the CFD really pays $1 per point. If your symbol pays more, the same lot is a different account. Gold at 0.25 lots is about $25 per $1, so a $5 stop is about $125 and a $20 stop is about $500.
Equity Guard should flatten near $1,000 of daily loss. Bot Control should attach the 50-point stop at the fill. Two index positions in the same direction are one idea: 2.5 lots plus 2.5 lots is $250 of risk, not two independent $125 tries.
A full day here deletes the 3-Step
The 3-Step maximum is static at $1,250. There is no next morning. The 2-Step $1,250 day resets from the closed balance at 00:00, and a floating winner does not raise that reset. People buy the 3-Step because the fee feels small, then trade $400 stops sized for a resetting 2-Step. Three of those stops are $1,200, and the fourth does not exist.
News is permitted without a 2-minute confiscation, and weekend holding is allowed. A Sunday index gap of 200 points on 5.0 lots, at $1 per point, is $1,000. That is most of the day and most of the 3-Step life. Hold a smaller lot if you want the weekend permission to be usable.
The $2,000 pass at 80%
Eighty percent of $2,000 is $1,600 before costs, at a split that can be 90%, and only after the 14-day wait or the 7-day add-on. Expert Advisors are allowed. Grid martingale is not, which on this balance looks like adding a second 2.5 lot into a red index trade. The request cap is 2,000 a day.
Keep the $125 ticket, bank $500 days, and leave $750 unused. That path clears $2,000 in four sessions with the static 10% floor barely involved. The 8% static card will feel the $2,000 target as a lifetime number. The 10% card will not, unless the losing days were real.
