Wait until the opening whip is a finished candle
The rule is to let the 13:30 UTC candle settle before the entry. That first bar is the spread, the stop-run, and the headline, stacked. Entering mid-bar means the 60 to 100 point stop is a guess measured from a price that is still printing. Measure the stop from the settled extreme, then ask what the contract count does in dollars. The target on a $100K 2-Step is still $8,000 in Phase 1. One opening scalp does not need to be $2,000 of it.
There is no minimum trading day, so nothing stops you from trading every cash open. The daily loss does. Create a Venasri login and mark 13:30 UTC as a no-entry window until the bar closes. US30 and NAS100 do not share a free pass because they are "indices." Both sit under the same $4,000 line.
Size the point stop back to $500
A 60-point stop and a 100-point stop are both legal structures. They are not the same risk unless the contract count changes. Pick the count that makes 100 points equal about $500, the 0.50% unit on $100K. If your platform shows that 100 points at the current count is $2,000, you are at the top of the funded 1% to 2% idea cap before the trade starts. Cut the count. Do not shorten the stop into the noise to keep a hero size.
Equity Guard at $3,250 on the 2-Step is the day-level backstop, not a substitute for the point stop. A single idea should die at $500, or at most $1,000 if you are deliberately using the 1% funded edge. Set both numbers on Equity Guard: the ticket stop in points, and the account flatten in dollars.
Scalps, stacks, and the funded pair rule
Several NAS100 scalps in the same direction are one idea if they share the stop logic. Combined floating loss above 1.5% to 2.0%, $1,500 to $2,000 on $100K, is the funded breach even when each scalp was "only" $400. US30 does not reset that cap. It is a second symbol with its own dollars under the same $4,000 day. Add them if they can lose together at the cash open.
Standard broker rate limits still apply. A scalp loop that modifies the stop on every tick is how a manual method starts to look like a prohibited latency bot. Martingale after an opening loss is prohibited outright. Personal trade managers are allowed. Attaching one 100-point stop and leaving it is the allowed version.
News, 00:00, and the New York clock
CPI, NFP, and FOMC often land near this same New York window. Funded accounts already restrict a 2-minute to 5-minute window before and after red-folder events. A slipped index stop in that window counts toward the $4,000. Bot Control should block new NAS100 and US30 entries through the settle of 13:30 UTC and through that news window, then allow one sized ticket.
If a runner is still open at 00:00 server time, the higher of balance or equity becomes the next daily base. A +$1,400 NAS100 float raises the base to $101,400 and shrinks the practical room. Partial it. The 1-Step daily line is $3,000 with a trailing 5% maximum of $5,000. Do not run the 2-Step $4,000 habit on that login.
