You will feel the consistency rule before you feel the day
Daily loss is $1,250. Maximum loss is $1,500. Equity at $48,500 ends it. A full day at the limit leaves $250, one unit, under the floor. That is the red story, and it is the less common failure. The green story is a $1,000 morning. It is inside the day, and it is already past 30 percent of $3,000. To pull a $1,000 day back to a 30 percent share, total profit has to reach about $3,333, above the published hurdle.
Seven days at an even pace is about $429 a session. Two $250 winners at 1R are the whole average. Open a Venasri account and treat $429 as a successful day when it happens, including the days that make less and stay alive.
The $250 unit is two micros or 1.25 FX lots
A 20-pip major stop at 1.25 lots is $250. A 50-pip gold stop at 0.50 lots is $250. Two micro Nasdaq contracts at $2 a point with a 60-point stop are $240. One E-mini at 50 points is $1,000, four units, and at 60 points it is $1,200, almost the entire day. The higher-looking contract is the one this balance cannot carry if the stop is structural.
Five losses at $250 are $1,250, the day, with no slip budget. Four are $1,000. A second day of $1,000 is $2,000 total, through the $1,500 floor. Bot controls should cap the ticket at $250 and stop the session after three losses, which is $750, leaving the floor with room.
Static is the drawdown that matches a tight $1,500 floor
Intraday trailing with only $1,500 of slack will recruit an open gold or index winner against you quickly. A $1,200 open high, given back, is most of the trail. End-of-day trailing waits until 4:00 PM CT, and you are supposed to be flat by then, so the mark should see cash. Static leaves the floor at $48,500 while you build the $3,000, which is the behavior that matches a 7-day grind.
None of the three styles allows a weekend hold. A 40-point gap on one E-mini is $800, most of a consistency budget and a large slice of a $1,250 day. You should not have the E-mini on, and you should not have anything on after the close.
Flatten near $875 and stop the green day near $750
Equity Guard at 1.75 percent is $875. That is three and a half units of $250, inside the $1,250 day, and it leaves more than one unit under the $1,500 floor if you have not already been losing on prior days. Pair it with a profit stop near $750 so $900 is not discovered after the fill.
Funded rules are not this week's problem, but the habit is. A 2-minute Tier-1 blackout and an 80 to 95 percent split will not repair a $50,000 evaluation that used $1,000 days. Be flat before 4:00 PM CT. The pass is six or seven sessions that each look a little like $429.
