Hold the print, do not straddle the print
Allowed: an existing High Stakes swing through NFP. Prohibited: new orders or bracket OCO inside 2 minutes. If you want to be flat into the number, flatten 30 minutes early with Venasri, not 90 seconds early with a market order that might still sit in the window. Spreads on XAUUSD at the print can stop you out anyway and spend the 5 percent daily.
Bootcamp's mandatory SL still applies through news. A widened stop during the print is both a psychology flag and extra dollars against the per-step 5 percent Bootcamp max.
Weekend holds and the 00:00 MT5 snapshot
Weekend holding is permitted. Daily basis is higher of day-start balance or equity at 00:00 MT5 server (GMT+2/GMT+3). A Friday +$3,600 floater becomes Saturday's raised floor if you do not bank. Hyper Growth's 3 percent daily pause is tighter. Instant scaling to doubled size after 10 percent does not pause weekend math.
Three profitable days of 0.5 percent each on High Stakes are a consistency cousin, not a news rule. A single news lottery that is 7 of your 8 percent Phase 1 can still leave you hunting two more 0.5 percent days. Size the print as a hold, not as the whole target.
Hyper Growth and Bootcamp are not High Stakes news clones
Hyper Growth: 3 percent daily pause, 6 percent static, 10 percent target, milestone doubles. Bootcamp: 5 percent per step, mandatory SL. High Stakes: 5/10, 8/5, $495 on $100K. Paste High Stakes 'hold through news' onto Bootcamp without SL and you fail a different rule. Read the SKU.
Block the 2-minute straddle in software
24/7 MT5 Bot Control should refuse new entries inside 2 minutes of red-folder stamps on High Stakes, while allowing an already-protected swing to live. Venasri Equity Guard still flattens on the equity-anchored 4.25 percent class line, including Saturday 00:00 if you hold.
start free on Venasri before the first High Stakes hold. The permission to sit news is not extra daily budget. It is extra path to the snapshot trap.
