2.00 gold lots and 5.00 FX lots are correct, and 6.00 is a raise
The Dual Step day is 4%, or $8,000. The static maximum is 8%, or $16,000, so equity at $184,000 ends the evaluation. Phase 1 is also $16,000. Half a percent is $1,000. A 20-pip FX stop needs 5.00 lots at $10 per pip. Six lots on the same stop cost $1,200. Five of those overweight losses are $6,000. Gold at 2.00 lots with a 50-pip stop is the same $1,000. Three lots of gold on that stop are $1,500, and a doubled fill at the COMEX open is $3,000 from one ticket.
Bot controls should compute cash from the stop distance on this balance, not from a lot that felt normal on a $100,000 account. A 2.50 lot FX habit imported from the smaller book risks only $500 here, which is 0.25%, and it will make the $16,000 target feel impossible. The correction is to use 5.00 lots at a 20-pip stop, not to widen the stop and keep a familiar lot.
The $16,000 target and the $16,000 floor are the same sentence
Phase 2 is 5%, or $10,000. Three minimum trading days apply. Two full days of $8,000 equal the maximum and equal Phase 1. There is no third full day. At 2R the $1,000 unit pays about $2,000, so eight clean 2R winners are the first target, and real weeks are longer. Sixteen 1R winners are the same $16,000. A single $4,000 afternoon is a quarter of the target and half of the day if it had been a loss. Prefer the unit you can be wrong about.
Lightning on $200,000 is a $6,000 day and a $12,000 end-of-day trail. The $8,000 Dual Step figure is $2,000 too loose. Nexus can share the $8,000 day and the $16,000 static floor. A scale that later changes this balance requires a new unit the same morning. Until that post, $1,000 remains the number, and the 80% or 90% split does not insure the $184,000 equity line.
Slippage, swap, and the snapshot all scale with 5.00 lots
Each extra pip of FX slippage at 5.00 lots is $50. A news print that runs 10 pips past the stop is $500 on top of the planned $1,000. Gold at 2.00 lots loses $20 per extra 0.10 of travel. The evaluation may trade the release. The funded account may not open or close inside the two minutes around it. Either way the slip counts inside the $8,000. Wednesday triple swap on 2.00 lots of gold is a real debit in the same daily bucket.
The 00:00 ThinkMarkets anchor uses the higher of balance and floating equity. A $6,000 open winner is 3% of this book. Donating it to the snapshot can make the next day start from a richer base, and a giveback spends most of the $8,000 hole. Partial before the clock. Weekend holds need the swing add-on once the account is funded. The 2,000-message cap is also easier to hit when 5.00 lot trails edit through two sessions on MT5 and ThinkTrader combined.
Flatten near $6,500 and rebuild the unit if the balance changes
Equity Guard on Dual Step should flatten near $6,500, which is 3.25% of $200,000 and leaves $1,500 before the official $8,000. That $1,500 buffer is 30 pips of room on a 5.00 lot FX position, or a modest gold slip, and then the day should be over. Lightning should flatten near $4,500 against its $6,000 day. Waiting for the firm print means the breach and your exit are the same event.
Open a Venasri account and store the unit as $1,000 of cash. A 20-pip FX idea is 5.00 lots. A 30-pip FX idea is about 3.33 lots. A 50-pip gold idea is 2.00 lots. A 70-pip gold idea is about 1.43 lots. Change the stop, then the lot, then send the order. The $16,000 floor has room for two bad days and nothing that pretends to be a third.
