Three balances, three trail widths
A $100,000 account trails by $3,000, so the opening floor sits near $97,000 until end-of-day gains pull it up. A $150,000 account trails by $4,500. A $50,000 account is quoted in a band of about $1,500 to $2,000, so the plan name matters before you size a single Nasdaq contract. Intraday noise does not move an end-of-day trail. The close of the session does. A wicked open that you survive, and that you are still holding at the mark, is a different story.
If the $3,000 distance stays constant, the floor reaches the starting balance plus $100 only after an end-of-day balance around $103,100. That arithmetic is the buffer you are building. It is not a promise that the first $100 of profit freezes the account. Open a Venasri account and store the dollar width of the plan you paid for.
Expert removes a daily label and keeps the same trail family
Expert can be attempted in one day and does not publish a separate daily loss line beside the trail. Starter keeps a 40% consistency test and asks for five winning days before a payout. Both still live inside the end-of-day maximum. A one-day Expert pass that uses the maximum number of contracts into the New York open is the classic way to print the entire $3,000 on a single candle and never see day two.
The profit target on the evaluation is 6%, or $6,000 on $100,000. There is no second-phase profit target after that. People searching for a 2-step comparison are usually looking at Starter rules beside Expert, not at a second $6,000 exam. Bot controls should know which plan is loaded before the first order of a pass attempt.
The session mark moves the floor, and Friday must be flat
The published session marks sit around 4:10 PM ET and 5:00 PM ET for the CME rollover, depending on the contract. Positions have to be closed before the Friday afternoon CME close. A runner you meant to swing is a flat-rule breach and, if the gap is against you, a trail breach. Futures do not charge an FX-style Wednesday triple swap. The cost of holding is the gap and the rule that says you may not hold.
Unrealized profit at the end-of-day mark is what can lift the trail. Taking the trade off before the mark keeps a wild intraday high from becoming the new floor. That is the opposite of an FX midnight snapshot, and it is the one this firm actually uses.
Leave $750 under the $3,000 trail
Equity Guard on a $100,000 account should flatten near $2,250, which is $750 inside the $3,000 trail. On a $50,000 plan with a $2,000 trail, a proportional idea is near $1,500. On $150,000, $4,500 of trail suggests a flatten well before that print, near $3,375 if you keep the same fraction. Recalculate from the contract, not from a 5% FX article.
One E-mini Nasdaq point is $20. A 40-point adverse move on one contract is $800. Three of those, or one contract with a much wider stop, is the trail. Micros exist so the geometry can be smaller. The trail does not care that the symbol felt liquid.
