The exchange counts modifications, not your intention
The firm allows automation that stays inside CME rate limits. That is not a blanket yes for unattended high-frequency order games. Canceling and replacing a bracket through the open, or trailing by one tick on NQ, is how a quiet strategy becomes a messaging problem. Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, and Quantower all sit on that same exchange constraint.
A protective tool that places a stop, moves it once to breakeven, and scales out at prices you wrote down is a different animal. Bot controls should update on those events, not on every tick. If you cannot explain the order rate, do not run the bot on an evaluation you paid $150 to take at the $100,000 size.
One NQ is $20 a point and the bot must know that
E-mini Nasdaq is $20 per point. Micro Nasdaq is $2. A bot sized in shares or in CFD lots will misread both. Forty points on one NQ is $800. Forty points on one MNQ is $80. Ten micros are the full e-mini again. The Expert plan can be finished in a single day, which tempts a bot to use the largest contract count the buying power shows. That count is how the $3,000 end-of-day trail disappears on the opening candle.
Create a Venasri login and store the dollar risk per contract before the bot is allowed to arm. Starter still has a 40% best-day test. A bot that finally has a huge green day can fail the payout even when messaging was clean.
A legal bot still has to be flat on Friday
News is allowed during the evaluation. Funded Starter and sim-funded tiers pick up Tier-1 restrictions. A bot coded to trade every CPI print will pass the evaluation habit and fail the funded rule. The Friday afternoon CME close is not optional. Positions must be flat. A bot that swings NQ over the weekend is a rule breach before the Sunday gap is even a price.
Session marks around 4:10 PM ET and 5:00 PM ET are when the end-of-day trail is judged. A bot that is green intraday and red at the mark has lost the only snapshot this firm uses. Intraday heroics do not get marked until then.
Flatten near $2,250 even if the bot is allowed
Equity Guard should flatten a $100,000 book near $2,250, $750 inside the $3,000 trail. The bot can freeze, stack NQ and ES, or double contracts after a loss. The flatten is the account rule. The bot is a worker. On a $50,000 plan, rebuild the number from a $1,500 to $2,000 trail rather than halving $2,250 and hoping.
After the flatten, the bot stays off for the session. Re-arming because the open continued is how the one-day Expert attempt dies on the second try. The 6% target, $6,000 on $100,000, is still available tomorrow if Expert did not require you to finish today. If it did, you already know the contract count was the mistake.
