5% of initial, 17:00 New York, MT5 midnight
Classic daily allowance is 5% of initial, $5,000 on $100K. Reset is 17:00 America/New_York, printed as 00:00 on OANDA MT5. Floor for the session is day-start balance minus $5,000 on the evaluation (initial-balance anchored), with an equity check at rollover. If you start the MT5 day at $100,000, equity cannot print $95,000. If you start funded at $106,500 after a trail update, the daily $5,000 still applies on top of a trail that may already sit near $95,850.
Start a free Venasri account and set the daily clock to 17:00 New York with DST. Confirm that Venasri's "MT5 midnight" label and OANDA's 17:00 ET are the same instant on your server offset. A one-hour DST miss is a $5,000 miss.
Worked example: static pass, trailing fail, same 4% pullback
Classic Phase 2, $100K. You sit at $104,200 closed. Static max is still $90,000. Daily floor today is $99,200 if day-start was $104,200 with a $5,000 allowance from initial... here is the precise evaluation read: daily allowance stays $5,000 of initial, so from a $104,200 day-start the equity floor is $99,200. A $4,400 pullback to $99,800 is legal. You pass, you fund.
Week two as Signal Provider, peak closed $108,000, trail 10% sits at $97,200. Same $4,400 pullback from $104,200 now prints $99,800, which is still above $97,200, so you live. Week three peak $111,000, trail $99,900. The same $4,400 pullback from $104,200 prints $99,800, which is now $100 through the trail. Evaluation logic said "safe 4%." Funded trail said "account closed." Venasri Equity Guard on funded must watch the trail, not the old $90,000 static line.
Floating into 17:00 ET on a Signal Provider account
Leave +$3,100 floating into 17:00 ET on funded and two numbers move: tomorrow's daily floor and, depending on how OANDA marks the trail at EOD, the 10% trail. Flattening 15 minutes before 17:00 ET when float exceeds 1.2% of initial is the boring habit that keeps both lines still. 24/7 MT5 Bot Control can do that flatten while you are offline in London morning, which is 17:00 ET the previous calendar day during winter.
News adds a third clock. You cannot close inside 2 minutes of a red folder. If CPI lands at 08:30 ET and you are in a 5% daily hole, you may be unable to flatten the legal way until 08:32, while equity is already through $95,000. Pre-set Guard at 4.25% so the bot, not you, wins that race before the window opens.
Two Venasri profiles, one OANDA login history
Keep Classic Guard at 4.25% daily and 9.0% static max of initial. Keep Signal Provider Guard at 4.25% daily and 9.0% of closed peak, never letting the live trail sit tighter than 3% of current equity without a flatten. Drive both through the ZeroMQ MT5 Bridge so the same EA does not need a recode on promotion day.
On a $500K Classic, multiply by five: $25,000 daily, $50,000 static max in evaluation, then a $50,000 trailing band once funded. Traders who pass $100K and scale to $500K without changing the dollar guard still have a 5% / 10% brain and a $5,000 robot. That mismatch ends Signal Provider accounts in a week.
