0.25 lots is the budget and 0.30 lots is a raise
The standard day is 4%, or $400. The static maximum is 10%, or $1,000, so equity at $9,000 ends the evaluation. Half a percent is $50. At $10 per pip on 1.00 lot, 0.25 lots with a 20-pip stop cost $50 exactly. Gold at $10 per 0.10 move needs 0.10 lots on a 50-pip stop to risk the same $50. Both numbers are round, which is why the next click upward feels harmless.
A move to 0.30 FX lots is $60 a stop. The $900 Phase 1 target does not get easier because the stop got more expensive. It gets shorter, because four overweight losses are $240 and the day has less left than the blotter suggests. Bot controls can reject the order when computed cash risk is above $50.
Phase 1 is $900, which is $100 inside the floor
Phase 1 asks for $900. The account dies at $1,000 down. The gap is one hundred dollars, or two risk units. Phase 2 asks for $600, which is 6%. Three minimum trading days apply. At a 2R payoff the $50 unit returns about $100, so Phase 1 is on the order of nine net winners after losers have taken their share. Spending the $400 day on purpose, twice, would use $800 and would also use most of the maximum. That path does not pass.
Endurance on $10,000 is a $300 day, because 3% is $300, and a $600 trailing maximum, because 6% is $600. The $400 mental model is already $100 too loose on that product. Consistency mode still caps the best day at 50% of cycle profit. Half of $900 is $450, so a $480 session can fail the cap while the $400 loss line was never the problem.
A $400 float is the whole day, parked in one ticket
PipFarm takes the higher of day-start balance or floating equity at 00:00 UTC. On this account a $400 open gold winner is not spare change. It is 4% of the book, the same size as the daily loss. If the snapshot uses it, a full giveback is the entire next day before a new trade is placed. Closed balance can still show yesterday as a win.
Classic may hold through the weekend. Other modes need the rank perk before a Friday hold is legal. Either way, Sunday open is scored in the new day. News under Rank 3 is blocked for two minutes around the release. A stop that is already on the ticket can still slip, and the slip debits the $400. Rank does not cap the wick.
The flatten belongs at $325
Equity Guard on the standard book should cut the session near $325 of daily loss, 3.25% of $10,000, with $75 left before the official $400. On Endurance put it near $225 against the $300 day. Do not import a $3,250 figure from a $100,000 note. The guard will never see that much room on this balance.
Store Classic, Consistency, and Endurance as separate cards. One $50 unit can serve the standard book. One profit-share rule cannot, because Consistency scores the best day and Classic does not. Open a Venasri account and name the mode before the first 0.25 lot goes live.