On this slice the trail and the account are the same $150
Three percent of $5,000 is $150. Expert does not add a second intraday daily loss limit on top of the end-of-day trail, so this worksheet does not get a fresh $150 tomorrow if today already used it. The 6% target is $300. There is no second profit target after that. Twelve winning units of $25, with the losers still ahead of you, are the whole target.
The real contracts are larger. A $50,000 evaluation carries a published trail of $1,500 to $2,000. A $100,000 evaluation carries $3,000. A $150,000 evaluation carries $4,500. If you rehearse risk on a $5,000 slice, write the slice on the ticket. A 75-point micro stop that is correct here is a rounding error on the $100,000 account, and the reverse mistake is how the slice vanishes.
The $25 unit is 12 points on one micro, or 5 points on MES
Half of 1% is $25. Micro Nasdaq pays $2 a point, so a 12-point stop on one MNQ is $24. Micro E-mini S&P pays $5 a point, so a 5-point stop on one MES is $25. Anything wider on that same single contract is a different plan. A 25-point MNQ stop is $50, which is 1% of this slice and a third of the $150 trail.
Two MES contracts with a 5-point stop are also $50. They feel like a hedge because the symbols differ. On a morning when the index complex moves together they are one bet. The bot desk should add index contracts in dollars, not in the number of symbols on the ladder.
The MT5 mirror of $25 is 0.05 gold or about 0.12 lots of FX
If you copy the dollar plan onto MT5, a major pays about $10 a pip at 1.00 lot. A 20-pip stop at 0.12 lots is $24. Gold pays $10 per 0.10 move at 1.00 lot, so a 50-pip stop at 0.05 lots is $25. A 0.10 gold lot on that stop is $50. On a $100,000 screenshot 0.10 lots looks tiny. On this slice it is twice the unit and a third of the trail.
A gold fill that doubles the stop, from 50 pips to 100, turns 0.05 lots into $50 as well. There is not a second full idea after that if the morning already had a loser. Keep the MT5 ticket on the $25 cash figure, then let the futures contract on the real evaluation use its own point value.
Flatten the slice near $112, and do not import a $2,250 guard
Equity Guard for this slice belongs near $112, about 2.25% of $5,000, leaving a little room before $150. A guard copied from a $100,000 article, set at $2,250, will never fire here. The slice will be gone while the guard still thinks the morning is quiet. Arm the number that matches the balance you typed in.
The published lock, starting balance plus $100, is a rule of the real $50,000, $100,000, and $150,000 contracts. Do not assume a $5,000 worksheet locks at $5,100. Sign up on Venasri with the slice balance stored separately from the live evaluation so the $25 unit and the $500 unit cannot be mixed on the same card.
