0.50 gold lots is the whole unit, not a starter
The multi-step day is $2,500, 5% of $50,000. The static maximum is $5,000, so equity at $45,000 ends the account. Half a percent is $250. At $10 per pip on 1.00 lot, 0.50 gold lots with a 50-pip stop cost $250 exactly. The FX version of the same cash is 1.25 lots with a 20-pip stop. Both are easy to overshoot: 0.60 gold lots on that stop are $300, and 1.50 FX lots on a 20-pip stop are $300.
Two correlated gold tickets of 0.50 lots are $500, a fifth of the day, and they will often win or lose together. Bot controls should add open metal risk before they allow the next order. They should also block a fill that has no stop-loss, because RebelsFunding scores that click as a violation even when the cash loss never reaches $250.
Phase 1 is $4,000 and one trade may own $2,000
Phase 1 is 8%, or $4,000. The next phase is 5%, or $2,500, which matches one full day. Four minimum trading days apply. At 2R the $250 unit pays about $500, so the first target is a run of modest winners, not a single news expansion. Eight full losses at $250 are $2,000, still inside the day, and ten of them are the day with nothing left for spread.
The 50% contribution cap makes $2,000 the ceiling for one trade on the way to $4,000. A 1.00 lot gold runner of 200 pips is exactly that ceiling at $10 per pip. Gold 1-step on this balance is a $2,000 day and a $3,000 trailing maximum. The multi-step $2,500 note is already too loose for that product. Read the contract before you celebrate a green week by adding a lot.
A $2,000 float is 4% of this book at midnight
Day-start balance and equity at 00:00 CET set the next anchor. A $2,000 open gain is 4% of $50,000. Held into the snapshot, a full giveback spends $2,000 of the next $2,500 day before the first new order. The closed-trade list can still call yesterday a success. Partial the runner. Leave a remainder only if its cash is small beside $2,500.
Funded news is restricted for two minutes around the release. Evaluation news can still slip a stop, and the slip still debits the day. Weekend holds exist only on selected tiers. Open a Venasri account and keep the $50,000 card separate from any $100,000 card so the half-lot habit does not migrate upward by accident.
Flatten near $2,125, not at the round $2,500
Equity Guard on the 5% program should flatten near $2,125 of daily loss. That leaves $375 before the official line, enough for one ugly gold spread and not enough to fund another idea. Gold 1-step should flatten near $1,625 against its $2,000 day. A guard set at the firm print is a postmortem, not a control.
The $4,000 phase is smaller than the $5,000 maximum, which tempts a late push. The push is how a passed-looking week dies on day four. Four minimum days are a pace rule. They are not an invitation to risk the remainder of the day on the last session because the calendar looks short.
