The floor can rise to $100,100 and then stop helping you
Expert marks the trail from end-of-day equity. There is no separate intraday daily loss limit, so a single session can use the $3,000. As the account makes money, that trail ratchets and is allowed to lock at the starting balance plus $100. After the lock, giveback toward $100,100 is the breach even if the original $97,000 picture is still in your notes. The 6% target is $6,000, and there is no second target.
Starter at this balance still wants 5 winning days and a best day at or under 40% of profit. Forty percent of $6,000 is $2,400. A $2,600 day can delay a Starter payout without ever touching a $3,000 hole. Expert skips that share and can be finished in one day. The lock rule does not care which plan produced the equity high.
One NQ at 25 points is the whole $500 unit
E-mini Nasdaq pays $20 a point, so 25 points on one contract is $500. Five MNQ at 50 points is the same $500, at $2 a point. Ten MES at 10 points is also $500, at $5 a point. Two NQ at 25 points is $1,000, a full percent, and a third of the trail. That is the oversized click this account tempts because the buying power looks large next to a $150 fee.
A 40-point stop on one NQ is $800, which is still one ticket but no longer the unit. If the structure needs 40 points, drop to two MNQ or accept a smaller NQ plan and skip the trade. The bot desk should compute points times point value before it sends the order.
2.50 FX lots or 1.00 gold lot, and not both
On MT5 the same $500 is 2.50 lots of a major with a 20-pip stop, or 1.00 lot of gold with a 50-pip stop. Both use $10 per pip, or per 0.10 gold move, at 1.00 lot. A second gold lot makes it $1,000. A gold stop that runs to 70 pips on 1.00 lot is $700. Either one is a meaningful bite of a $3,000 trail, and together with an open NQ they are the same economic idea counted twice.
The $150,000 neighbor account is not a place to reuse these tickets unchanged. There the 0.50% unit is $750 and the listed trail is $4,500. A $500 habit on that book is simply a smaller unit. A $500 habit on this book is the whole plan.
Flatten near $2,250, before the lock and before the open
Equity Guard should flatten this account near $2,250 of drawdown, leaving $750 before the $3,000 trail. Arm it before 9:30 AM ET. The one-day Expert path is most often lost on the opening drive, not in the afternoon. After the floor locks at $100,100, the guard has to follow the new floor rather than the original $97,000 picture. A giveback to the lock is the breach.
Payouts on Expert are on a 14-day cycle, at 100% of the first $10,000 and 90% after. That calendar is not extra room under the trail. Create a Venasri login and store the $3,000 trail, the $100,100 lock, and the $500 unit on one card. The mark to respect is 4:10 PM ET, with Friday flat before the CME afternoon close.
