The screenshot lot is the whole account
Traders halve a $100K lot and feel conservative. Half of the 0.80 to 1.45 cap is still 0.40 to 0.72 lots. At $10 per pip on 0.10 lots, 0.40 lots is $40 per pip. A 50-pip stop is $2,000, the entire daily loss, and a 70-pip stop is $2,800. The full 0.80 lot is $80 per pip and $4,000 on 50 pips, which equals both the daily loss of a $100K account and the static maximum of this $50K account. The cap was a ceiling on a different balance.
The 0.50% unit here is $250. That is 0.05 lots at $5 per pip, times a 50-pip stop. Start a Venasri account and set 0.05 as the gold default for the $50K login. Sixteen winners of $250 equal the $4,000 Phase 1 target. You do not need the screenshot lot to get there.
$250 fits the day eight times, and the idea cap twice
Eight $250 losses are the $2,000 daily line. The static $4,000 floor is two full daily losses, so a second red day at the limit ends the evaluation even if each day obeyed the 4% rule. Funded combined tickets on one pair above 1.5% to 2.0% are $750 to $1,000 on this balance. Four open $250 gold stops are $1,000. Two are $500, still inside 1%. The stack is the breach, not the single planned ticket.
Equity Guard at 3.25% is $1,625, which is $375 before the $2,000 print. That is enough to absorb one extra $250 slip and still flatten. Arm it on Equity Guard for this login only. The 1-Step daily loss is 3%, $1,500, and $1,625 is already past that line. The 1-Step maximum trails at 5%, $2,500, tighter than the 2-Step static $4,000.
Phase 2 is $2,500, under the same $2,000 day
Phase 2 on the 2-Step is 5%, $2,500 on $50K. The daily loss does not widen because you passed Phase 1. A trader who "only needs $2,500" and risks $1,000 is one loss from halfway through the day and four losses from the static floor if they repeat it. Instant replaces both floors with a trailing 3% maximum, $1,500, plus a 20% consistency score. A $1,200 day that felt small versus a $4,000 target can be a problem on Instant's score.
The 00:00 rule still takes the higher of balance or equity. Hold +$900 of NAS100 or gold into the snapshot and the next 4% is computed from $50,900. Weekend holding is allowed on 1-Step, 2-Step, and 3-Step. A Sunday gap at 0.40 lots is not a 0.05-lot gap. Cut size before Friday if the stop distance cannot shrink.
Write $1,625 and 0.05 lots, then stop editing
Bot Control should block gold above 0.05 lots unless the stop is shortened so the dollar risk is still $250, and it should pause the funded news window of 2 to 5 minutes before and after red-folder events. A stop-out during that window counts toward the $2,000. Index scalps at the 13:30 UTC open need the same dollar test: a 100-point stop must be $250, not $1,000.
The $50K account is large enough to feel like a real book and small enough that a $100K habit destroys it. Stay at $250 through Phase 1 and the first funded 10-business-day cycle at the 80% split. If the firm later increases capital, rebuild the dollar risk from 0.50% of the new balance. Do not keep 0.05 lots out of nostalgia, and do not jump to 0.80 because the cap phrase is familiar.
