The second full day is the end of the account and the size of the target
Dual Step daily loss is 4%, or $400. The static maximum is 8%, or $800, so equity at $9,200 ends the book. Phase 1 is 8%, also $800. Phase 2 is 5%, or $500. Three minimum trading days apply. At a 2R payoff the $50 unit returns about $100, so Phase 1 is on the order of eight net winners after losers have taken their share. Spending the $400 day on purpose, twice, matches the target in the wrong direction and also matches the grave.
Lightning on $10,000 is a $300 day and a $600 end-of-day trail. The $400 note is already $100 too loose. Nexus shares the Dual Step loss lines, the $400 day and the $800 static floor, without automatically sharing a profit target you have not read. Write the product beside the balance. Open a Venasri account before you store a single $50 default.
0.25 lots is the budget and 0.30 lots is a raise
Half a percent is $50. At $10 per pip, 0.25 lots with a 20-pip stop cost $50 exactly. Gold needs 0.10 lots on a 50-pip stop for the same $50. A nudge to 0.30 FX lots is $60. Seven of those overweight stops are $420, already through the $400 day. The roundness of 0.30 is not a reason. The cash is the reason.
A 0.20 lot gold position, which still looks tiny, risks $100 on a 50-pip stop. Two of them are half the day. Bot controls should reject the order when computed loss is above $50. If the stop is 30 pips instead of 20, the FX lot has to fall to about 0.16 or the unit is no longer $50. Change the distance first.
A $400 open gain is the entire next day if midnight keeps it
At 00:00 ThinkMarkets time the anchor is the higher of balance or equity. A $400 floating winner is 4% of this account. If the snapshot uses it, a full giveback spends the next $400 hole before a new trade exists. Book it, or leave a runner measured in tens of dollars. Overnight holding is allowed. A funded weekend hold still needs the swing add-on, and Sunday gap counts inside the new day.
News is allowed in the evaluation and restricted to a two-minute window on either side once you are funded. A 0.10 lot gold stop that slips from 50 pips to 150 pips costs about $150, most of a third of the day, from a ticket that was correctly sized on paper. The funded window does not cap the wick. It only tells you when you may click.
Flatten at $325 so the second day never starts from zero room
Equity Guard on Dual Step should cut the session near $325, 3.25% of $10,000, with $75 left before the official $400. Lightning should sit near $225 against the $300 day. After one full $400 loss, this account has $400 of lifetime room left, which is exactly one more day and exactly the Phase 1 target in the other direction. The guard is what stops the second day from being traded as if the first had not happened.
Store 0.25 FX lots and 0.10 gold lots as the defaults for the reference stops. The $500 Phase 2 target is ten 2R winners at $50, or a longer mix once losers appear. It is not a reason to raise the unit after Phase 1 feels slow. The floor did not get larger because you passed a step. On Dual Step it is still $800 under the start until the firm changes the balance.
