$125 risk against a very round $1,000
Four percent of $25,000 is $1,000. Eight percent is $2,000. Phase 1 is $2,000 and Phase 2, if you use the 2-Step path, is 5%, or $1,250. Eight losses at $125 reach the daily line. Four losses at $250 do it faster, and $250 is 1% of the account, double the unit that keeps sixteen winners equal to the $2,000 target. The cleanliness of $1,000 is not a sizing instruction.
At $10 per pip on 0.10 lots, $125 is 12.5 pips on 0.10 lots, which is noise, or about 62 pips on 0.02 lots at $2 per pip. Use 0.02 lots and a stop near 60 pips. Register a Venasri account with 0.02 as the gold ceiling for this login so 0.10 cannot be selected from habit.
Three $125 tickets are the funded line
1.5% of $25,000 is $375. Three planned $125 stops, open together on gold, land exactly on that combined-ticket line. The funded rule flags 1.5% to 2.0% across one pair even if the $1,000 day is only a third spent. Traders call the third entry a hedge or a scale. Maven calls the stack one idea. Two tickets, $250, stay inside 1%. The third is the decision.
Equity Guard at 3.25% is $812.50, which leaves $187.50 under the $1,000 print. That buffer is about one $125 loss plus a little room. Put the flatten on Equity Guard and add a same-symbol open-risk block at $375. The 1-Step daily loss is 3%, $750, so $812.50 is past it. The 1-Step trailing maximum is 5%, $1,250, which can bind after the daily line has already failed.
A copied 0.10 lot is a $500 day-killer
0.10 lots at $10 per pip with a 50-pip stop is $500. That is 2% of $25K, the top of the funded idea cap, and half of the daily loss, in one ticket. It is also four times the $125 plan. The 0.80 lot cap quoted on $100K challenges would be absurd here: 0.80 lots and 50 pips is about $4,000, double the entire static maximum of this account. Importing a lot from a different balance is the $25K error.
Zero minimum days means you can try to make $2,000 immediately. Two $500 mistakes are the whole day, and four of them would be the lifetime floor if the day reset, which it does not across the static 8%. The higher-of snapshot at 00:00 still applies. A +$600 float raises the next base above $25,600 and changes the 4% dollar.
Locks that match $25,000 and nothing else
Daily flatten $812.50 on the 2-Step only. Gold lot 0.02. Stop near 60 pips so the dollar stays around $125. No third concurrent gold ticket. Bot Control can enforce that lot ceiling and pause entries in the funded 2-minute to 5-minute news window. A slipped stop at 0.10 lots is a $10 move per pip, not the $2 you planned.
Once funded, the split is 80% every 10 business days, and the $375 idea cap does not relax because the target was hit. Phase 2 only needs $1,250. You can reach it with ten $125 winners. You cannot reach it by deciding the account is "basically a $50K" and doubling the lot. It is a $25K contract until the firm says the balance changed.
