Connect the login the firm will grade
Use the same MT5 login Maven issued, not a demo that happens to show XAUUSD. The daily math reads equity on that server at 00:00, including swap and commission. If Venasri is pointed at a different login, Equity Guard can flatten the wrong book and leave the Maven tickets naked. Match-Trader, cTrader, and TradeLocker accounts still need their own connection. A guard on one platform does not cover a ticket you opened on another.
Register on Venasri and confirm the balance reads $100,000, or whichever size you bought, before you arm anything. A $50K login with a $4,000 daily guard is a 2-Step $100K setting pasted onto an account whose real daily line is $2,000. The connection is only useful after the size matches the card.
Stop, breakeven, and four partials
Manual Trade Guard should attach a hard stop as the order fills. On the $100K 2-Step the planned risk is $500, which is 0.50%. For gold, $10 per pip on a 0.10 lot means a 50-pip stop at 0.10 lots is that $500. Breakeven belongs after price has paid for the spread, not after the trade is already a $900 heat. Staged partials, from the first scale-out through a fourth, bank the winner so a giveback does not become a full $500 loss plus a new entry.
The funded ceiling is tighter than the daily line. Keep the attached stop, and any added ticket on that pair, inside $1,500. Two extra 0.10 gold lots with the same 50-pip stop are another $1,000, and the stack is then $1,500. Set the default bracket on Equity Guard so a click cannot skip the stop because the platform felt fast.
What the firm allows the bridge to do
Trade managers and personal non-HFT EAs are allowed. Martingale, grid recovery, and latency bots are not. A bridge that adds a stop and scales out a winner is a trade manager. A bridge that doubles the lot after each loss is the martingale Maven prohibits, even if every child order has a stop. Instant accounts add a 20% consistency score and a trailing 3% maximum of $3,000 on $100K. Do not point a recovery EA at Instant because the evaluation had no minimum days.
Funded news is a 2-minute to 5-minute window before and after red-folder events. The guard should refuse new brackets in that window rather than straddling CPI with two stops. Weekend holding is allowed on 1-Step, 2-Step, and 3-Step, so a Friday partial is a choice, not a firm flatten. If you hold, the stop has to be in the market before the session thins.
The daily flatten sits above the bracket
A perfect stop on one ticket does not cap the day. Four stopped $500 trades are $2,000. Eight are the $4,000 daily loss. Equity Guard at $3,250 closes the remainder before the eighth. Bot Control is where that flatten, the news pause, and the pre-midnight partial live together. Arm them on the Maven server clock, which is 00:00 server time, not 17:00 New York and not a futures close.
Rehearse one manual buy on a tiny size and confirm three things: the stop appears at the fill, breakeven can move without a second platform, and a test of the daily guard flattens the ticket. Then trade the $500 unit. The $379 fee is cheaper than a second attempt caused by a naked click.
