One full day leaves $40 of trail, which is not another trade
The hard day is 2.2%, or $110. The trail is 3%, or $150. Lose the whole day and $40 of trail remains. That remainder is smaller than the $25 unit once slippage is included, so the practical life of this slice is one bad session, not two. The target is 6%, or $300. At $25 a unit you need twelve net winners, and you will not get them on the afternoon the $110 is already gone.
Test rules still want 5 trading days and a best day at or under half of profit. Half of $300 is $150. A single $160 winner fails the share on a book this small even though $160 is larger than the daily loss. Keep session profit under $100 until several days exist.
Twelve MNQ points are the unit, and 22 MES points are the obituary
Micro Nasdaq is $2 a point, so a 12-point stop on one MNQ is $24, just under $25. A 22-point stop on that same MNQ is only $44, still a large piece of a $110 day. The contract that matches the entire day with a modest stop is MES: 22 points times $5 is $110. People see one micro and think the click is harmless. On this slice the point value is the whole risk system.
The bot desk should hard-reject anything above $25 of cash risk. Two MES contracts at a 5-point stop are already $50. They look like a hedge when one is Nasdaq and one is the S&P. On this balance they are half the day.
The MT5 twin of $25 is 0.05 gold or 0.12 lots of FX
A major at $10 a pip on 1.00 lot needs about 0.12 lots for a 20-pip stop, which is $24. Gold at $10 per 0.10 move needs 0.05 lots for a 50-pip stop, which is $25. A 0.10 gold lot is the standard tiny click on a $100,000 account and is $50 here, almost half the day. Do not place that gold ticket and an MES ticket together.
If the gold stop slips from 50 pips to 100 on 0.05 lots, the fill is $50. Add the morning loser and the $110 day is done. The PRO news minute does not exist on a worksheet, but the habit of being flat for FOMC, NFP, and CPI is cheaper to learn here than on a $2,200 book.
Flatten near $73, and do not paste a $1,450 guard onto this slice
Equity Guard belongs near $73, about 1.45% of $5,000, leaving a little air under $110. A guard copied from the $100,000 plan, set at $1,450, never fires. The slice is gone while the guard still reads as quiet. On the real $50,000 account the day is $1,100 and the guard jumps to about $725. Switch cards when you switch balances.
Flat by 5:00 PM ET is still the session rule on the live product. Create a Venasri login and name this card as a $5,000 slice so it cannot inherit a $500 unit from the $100,000 evaluation.
