A naked gold lot is a $5,000 hole
XAUUSD at 1.00 lot is about $100 per $1. A $50 move is about $5,000, the entire 2-Step day on $100,000. The 1-Step day is $4,000, so the same lot dies around a $40 move. Create a Venasri profile and connect the Lark login before the first click, not after the first scare.
Manual Trade Guard puts a hard stop on the fill, moves it to breakeven after the first planned target, and can scale out in parts. Where you wanted four targets, set them as prices, not as a stream of edits. Lark Funding allows the guard. It does not allow the account to dip through the line while you type.
ZeroMQ without a noisy trail
The connection carries the stop and the later changes. The ceiling is 2,000 requests a day. A trail that rewrites the stop on every tiny fluctuation will exhaust that budget and can still miss the $5,000 touch if the logic is late. Step the stop at the prices you chose when you entered.
Bot Control is the desk for that connection, and Equity Guard is the second layer: flatten near $4,000 of daily loss even if the trade stop was wider than you remembered. The guard watches the account. The trade stop watches the position. You want both.
The balance reset still needs a live flatten
Daily loss resets from the closed balance at 00:00, UTC+2 or UTC+3, and a floating winner does not raise the next floor. The touch is still fatal during the session. A phone order at 23:50 that is naked across the reset is in the new day immediately, and the new day's line is live. Attach the stop before you leave the screen.
Overnight and weekend holding are allowed, so the guard should stay on while you are away. News is permitted without a 2-minute confiscation. A stop that is actually on the order is what keeps a permitted CPI trade from being a market order in disguise.
What the setup must not turn into
High-frequency trading, latency arbitrage, and grid martingale are banned. Partial targets are not a grid. Adding a second lot because the first is red is the pattern to leave switched off. Expert Advisors that only manage risk fit the rule. Expert Advisors that double down do not.
The 2-Step maximum is static from 8% to 10%, the 1-Step trails 6%, and the 3-Step maximum is a static 5%. Point the guard at the card you bought. A $4,000 flatten is right for a $5,000 2-Step day and late for a 3-Step account whose whole life is $5,000. The first payout, 14 days or 7 with the add-on, is irrelevant if the naked fill already ended it.
