The day is 4%, so the top of the band is sharp
Seven stops at 0.65%, $650, cost $4,550. The 2-step day is $4,000. The seventh stop crosses it. Six stops are $3,900, still inside. If you want seven full stops before the day, use the low end: 0.35% is $350, and seven of those are $2,450. The published band is 0.35% to 0.65% so that a string of stops approaches the day. On Maven's 4% line, only the lower half of the band keeps seven stops legal.
Start a Venasri account and set the ceiling from the contract. The 1-step day is 3%, $3,000. Six stops at $650 are $3,900, already through it. Instant trails at 3%, $3,000, with a 20% consistency score. A 2-step lot pasted onto Instant is the wrong card.
1% to 2% is the funded ruler
Once funded, one idea may float no more than 1% to 2%. That is $1,000 to $2,000 on $100K, half or less of the $4,000 day. The evaluation band of $650 is inside a 1% cap with room for one ticket, and it is how a second correlated ticket breaks a 1% reading. The primary trap is risking more than 1.5% to 2.0% combined on the same pair. Gold plus a second gold add is the textbook case.
Equity Guard should sum the pair, not each ticket. A 0.50% unit is $500. Two of them on NAS100 and US30, if they are the same bet, are $1,000, the bottom of the idea cap. A third is $1,500, inside the trap range. Stop at one unit per idea.
Targets in units that fit the day
Phase 1 is 8%, $8,000. At $400, which is 0.40% and near the low end, twenty winners reach it. At $500, sixteen winners reach it, and eight losers are the entire $4,000 day. Phase 2 is 5%, $5,000, ten winners at $500, which is more than one full day of losses. You cannot lose your way through Phase 2 at $500. You can win your way there if the losers stay sparse.
There is no minimum trading day forcing a rush. Bot Control can cap the session at a few units so a zero-day-minimum firm does not become a one-day blowup. The $379 fee and the $15 micro entry are cheap. A restarted evaluation is the expensive part.
What the manager may not do
Trade managers and personal non-HFT EAs are allowed. Martingale, grid recovery, and latency bots are prohibited. Grid recovery is exactly the add that pushes a pair through 1.5%. Keep modifications off a tick loop. Funded news uses a window of 2 to 5 minutes. A stop that fills there is a full unit and it counts.
Payouts are 80% every 10 business days. Instant wants a 20% consistency score, so the lot plan on Instant also has to avoid one giant winner. Weekend holds are allowed on the evaluation steps. A Sunday gap on a stacked pair can be both a 4% event and a 2% idea-cap event. Size Friday for one unit.
