1.25 lots and 0.50 gold lots are the whole unit
The Dual Step day is $2,000. The static maximum is $4,000, so equity at $46,000 ends the evaluation. Phase 1 is $4,000. Half a percent is $250. At $10 per pip, 1.25 lots with a 20-pip stop cost $250. Gold at 0.50 lots with a 50-pip stop is the same $250. The dangerous round number is 1.00 lot of gold, which is $500 on that stop and 1% of the account. Two correlated gold tickets at that size are $1,000, half the day.
Bot controls should cap a single ticket at $250 of cash risk and should combine NAS100 and US30, or gold and a dollar pair, when they express one view. A 100-point US30 stop at 2.50 lots is $250. The same idea at 5.00 lots is $500 and is a different plan wearing a familiar lot.
Phase 2 wants $2,500, which is a day plus a quarter
Phase 2 is 5%, or $2,500. Three minimum trading days apply to the path. Two full $2,000 days consume the maximum and match Phase 1 exactly. You get two bad sessions and then the account is over. At 2R the $250 unit pays about $500, so the first target is a sequence of about eight clean 2R winners, longer once losers appear. That sequence fits the three-day minimum if you do not try to print $4,000 on Monday.
Lightning on $50,000 is a $1,500 day and a $3,000 end-of-day trail. Using the $2,000 Dual Step card there is a $500 error on day one. After a strong Lightning close the trail can rise, so a green week reduces leftover room. Nexus shares the $2,000 day and the $4,000 static floor. Confirm its profit targets on the contract rather than borrowing the Dual Step 8% and 5% pair by habit.
A $2,000 runner is too large to donate to the snapshot
At 00:00 ThinkMarkets time, GMT+2 or GMT+3, the higher of balance and equity becomes the next base. A $2,000 open gain is 4% of this book. If it is still live at the snapshot, tomorrow $2,000 hole can be spent entirely by giving the gain back. Partial the position down to a runner measured in a few hundred dollars. The closed cash is what you want the new day to inherit.
ThinkCapital already allows overnight holds. The funded weekend still needs the swing add-on. A Sunday gap of 40 pips on 0.50 lots of gold is about $200, almost one full unit, before you have placed a Monday trade. Funded news restricts two minutes on either side of the print. A slipped 0.50 lot gold stop that runs from 50 pips to 150 pips costs about $750, three units, inside the $2,000 day.
Flatten near $1,625 and leave the $2,000 print unused
Equity Guard on Dual Step should flatten near $1,625, which is 3.25% of $50,000 and leaves $375 before the official day. Lightning should flatten near $1,125 against its $1,500 day. After the first full $2,000 loss, lifetime room and the Phase 1 target are the same remaining $2,000 in opposite directions. Trading the second day at full temperature spends both.
Open a Venasri account and store 1.25 lots as the 20-pip FX default and 0.50 lots as the 50-pip gold default. A four-pip slip on 1.25 FX lots is $50, a fifth of the unit, so the $375 guard buffer is there for that slippage and not for an extra idea. If the stop must be 30 pips, cut the lot to about 0.83 so the cash stays $250.
