Three trading days are the minimum, not a speed prize
ThinkCapital requires three minimum trading days. A single afternoon that prints the whole Phase 1 target does not finish the requirement, even when the dollars are there. Dual Step Phase 1 is 8%, or $8,000 on $100,000, and Phase 2 is 5%, or $5,000. Spread those results across at least three days so the file shows activity on three dates, and keep each day inside the 4% loss line of $4,000.
Dual Step does not apply a best-day consistency cap. One strong session can be most of the cycle profit and still be eligible, provided the daily loss and the static 8% maximum stayed intact. Lightning does apply a best-day cap. The firm contract states the exact share, and that share is easy to miss because the Dual Step account beside it has none. Read the product line before you let one gold expansion become the whole week.
80%, 90%, 14 days, and 7 days are commercial terms
The base split is 80%. The upper split is 90%. Standard withdrawals sit on a bi-weekly cycle. The add-on shortens the wait to 7 days. On an $8,000 eligible profit, 80% pays $6,400 and 90% pays $7,200. The extra $800 is the value of the higher share. It is not extra room under the daily line, and it does not move the static floor from $92,000 on a $100,000 Dual Step account.
A payout week that prints the 4% day can block the request even though the split math was perfect. Lightning is tighter: a 3% day is $3,000 on $100,000, and the 6% end-of-day trail can rise after a green close, which shrinks the distance to breach before the 14-day or 7-day date arrives. Schedule the withdrawal from closed profit. Open equity is not cash the firm has agreed to pay.
How a Lightning week fails while Dual Step would have paid
The same $3,500 gold day is uneventful on Dual Step if the account never approached a $4,000 hole. On Lightning that day can become the best day of a short cycle and trip the cap, while the 3% loss line was never the issue. Because the published materials describe the cap without a single percentage you should assume from a different firm, check the Lightning contract for the exact fraction and then stop the session before one day can reach it.
Three minimum days also stop the habit of making the target on Monday and going flat until the payout. The firm wants three dates with trades. It does not want three dates of maximum size. A $500 unit, which is 0.50% of $100,000, can build the $8,000 Dual Step target across 10 to 16 planned ideas without making any one ticket the entire story. Bot controls can refuse a Lightning order once the session profit is already the dominant share of the cycle.
Keep the payout week inside 3.25% or 2.25%
Set Equity Guard to flatten Dual Step at $3,250 of daily loss on $100,000, inside the $4,000 line you need clean for the payout review. Flatten Lightning at $2,250, inside the $3,000 day. A request that goes out after the firm has already printed the daily breach is a request about a closed account.
Create a Venasri login with the split, the cycle, and the product stored together. An 80% bi-weekly Dual Step card and a 90% 7-day Lightning card are different payout machines sitting on different loss lines. Partial large open profit before 00:00 ThinkMarkets time so the day you want to count as closed profit is actually closed.
