What 00:00 does to a $2,500 day
The higher of day-start balance or floating equity is the base. On a flat $50,000 account the 5% day is $2,500. If equity is higher at 00:00 MT5 time, the next 5% is measured from that higher equity. A pullback spends the new day while the static $5,000 floor can still look far away. Equity Guard has to use the MT5 server clock, GMT+2 or GMT+3, not a New York close.
Phase 1 is $4,000, which is 8%. Phase 2 is 5%, or $2,500, the same dollars as one daily loss. A Phase 2 account that has a single full down day is back to the start of the phase. Three days of at least 0.5% are still required. On $50,000 that day is $250.
A $250 trade on a $50,000 book
0.50% risk is $250. The exact lot is the volume that loses $250 when the stop hits. It changes with the stop distance. It does not change with a feeling about the cash open. Ten losses at $250 reach the $2,500 daily line. One trade that risks $1,000 is four planned trades and leaves little of the day.
Bootcamp on this balance caps the step at 5%, also $2,500, and still rejects a naked position. Manual Trade Guard is the Bootcamp control. Hyper Growth is 3% daily, $1,500, and 6% maximum, $3,000. Those are not the High Stakes numbers, even though the login screen may show $50,000 in both cases.
A legal weekend hold can still move Monday
Weekend and overnight holding is permitted. The permission does not freeze the 00:00 stamp. A NAS100 or gold position that is open and green at GMT+3 Sunday into Monday raises Monday's base. High Stakes also blocks new orders in the 2 minute window around a red-folder release while allowing the existing hold. Create a Venasri account if you want the flatten decision written down before Friday.
The $100,000 evaluation fee is $495. The $50,000 book uses its own dollar map, separate from that invoice. Payouts on High Stakes are bi-weekly at 80% to 100%. A 10% milestone here is $5,000, equal to the maximum loss. The scale-up and the floor are the same distance.
Activity rules on a busier $50,000 book
Self-owned EAs and risk EAs are allowed on MT5. Copy signals shared across unrelated users are prohibited. Bootcamp adds a strict anti-hyperactivity watch and the mandatory stop. A $50,000 index scalp that modifies the stop on every tick can fail that watch while the $2,500 day is only partly used.
Platform choice does not branch. The5ers is MT5 only. There is no second terminal with a different daily line. If the equity stamp and the stop both live on that MT5 login, the $2,500 and $5,000 figures are the whole risk system for High Stakes.
