The lifetime floor is two daily lines
Daily loss is 5% of the initial $5,000, a fixed $250, resetting at 17:00 New York. The maximum is a static 10%, so $4,500 equity ends the challenge. Phase 1 needs $400, which is 8%. Phase 2 needs $250, which is 5%. You also need three trading days, so a one-ticket sprint is not a completed phase even if the dollars add up.
The daily figure stays $250 after you are ahead. It is tied to the initial balance, not to a marked-up equity high. Sign up on Venasri with the $5,000 product written on the profile. A note copied from a $100,000 video will tell you that you still have thousands left when this book is already closed.
A $25 stop is 0.05 lots of gold or about 0.12 lots of FX
The working unit is $25. On a major, $10 per pip at 1.00 lot means a 20-pip stop at 0.12 lots costs $24. At 0.13 lots the same stop is $26 and you have already left the plan. Gold at $10 per 0.10 move needs 0.05 lots on a 50-pip stop to risk $25. A 0.10 lot gold idea, which looks tiny on a larger screenshot, is $50 here and is a full 1%.
One widened fill matters more than the lot label. If the 50-pip gold stop becomes a 100-pip fill, 0.05 lots costs $50, a fifth of the entire day. There is no second idea after that if the morning already had a loser. The bot desk should refuse gold above 0.05 lots on this balance unless the stop is shorter and the cash risk still prints $25 or less.
Sixteen quiet winners, not one $250 afternoon
At $25 risk, a 1R winner pays about $25 and a 2R winner pays about $50. Sixteen 1R winners, with no losers, are the $400 Phase 1 target. You will have losers, so the path is longer, and that is acceptable because the minimum is three days. What is not acceptable is risking $75 to finish faster. Three such losses are $225, the whole day with $25 of spread still unused.
Phase 2's $250 target equals one official daily loss. Spending the day on purpose to "get it back" spends the same cash figure you need for the entire second phase. The static $500 maximum means a second full red day ends the evaluation even if the calendar still shows time left. Classic 2-Step has no consistency score, so the danger here is size, not a best-day cap.
Flatten near $212, before the $250 print
Official death on the day is $250. Equity Guard should flatten near $212, which is 4.25% of $5,000 and leaves a pocket for a gold spread. After you become a Signal Provider, the 10% maximum trails the end-of-day balance. A challenge guard that only knows the $4,500 static floor will be wrong on the funded book.
Do not carry a large open winner through 17:00 New York if you are trying to keep the next allowance clean. Weekend holding is allowed, and a Sunday gap on even 0.05 lots can be a meaningful share of $250. News orders are blocked in the two minutes around high-impact releases, and a late stop still counts. The small account dies from one careless click, not from a long grind.
