Fourteen days on Expert, five winning days on Starter
Expert payouts sit on a 14-day cycle and the plan can be passed in a single session because there is no consistency cap. Starter wants five winning days and no single day that breaks the 40% test. A trader who passes Expert habits and then expects a Starter withdrawal will wait, or will be told the best day was too large. The trail does not replace either calendar.
The evaluation target is 6%, or $6,000 on $100,000, with no second profit target after it. Open a Venasri account and write the plan name on the payout card before you write the split. 100% of the first $10,000 is a funded term. It is not a wider trail.
Starter 40% is a share of the profit, and $2,400 is already the line
Forty percent of a $6,000 target is $2,400. A one-contract Nasdaq day that catches an 120-point winner is $2,400 at $20 per point, the entire cap if that target is the cycle. The same day is uneventful on Expert. Starter traders meet this rule after their best session, which is the session the rule exists to question. Spread the $6,000 across the five winning days instead of hunting it at the open.
A losing day does not become one of the five. You need winners, and you need them small enough that none owns the cycle. Bot controls should stop new risk on Starter once the session is approaching that 40% share.
The payout desk never waives the $3,000 trail
On $100,000 the end-of-day trail is $3,000. On $50,000 it is about $1,500 to $2,000 by plan, and on $150,000 it is $4,500. The lock is described at the starting balance plus $100. A payout request filed after the trail has printed is not a request. Expert one-day passes that use maximum contracts are the usual way to miss the payout by never getting funded.
The first $10,000 at 100% is worth protecting with boring size. After that, 90% of a living account beats 100% of a closed one. The split is not a reason to double NQ once the buffer appears.
Be flat at $2,250 before you ask to be paid
Equity Guard should flatten a $100,000 book near $2,250 so the official trail is not the exit that cancels the 14-day clock. Starter needs the same flatten plus the profit-share ceiling. Friday must be flat before the CME close, around the 4:10 PM ET or 5:00 PM ET session marks. A position held so the winning day looks bigger will not survive the weekend rule.
News is free in the evaluation and tighter on funded Starter and sim-funded tiers. A CPI day that creates the 40% winner is a bad Starter day even when it is green. Take the five smaller days. The 24 hours after you qualify are not the product. The product is the trail you did not print.
