Three rungs inside the same band do not share a life expectancy
At 0.35 percent the unit is $350. Six losses are $2,100. Seven are $2,450. You need the seventh full stop before the $2,500 day is essentially gone, and you still have $50, which is not another trade. At 0.50 percent the unit is $500 and five losses are the day exactly. At 0.65 percent the unit is $650. Three losses are $1,950. The fourth is $2,600, through the line.
The maximum behind the day is $3,000. A trader who survives the day at $2,450 has $550 of lifetime room left. The next red day of any normal size ends the account. The band keeps you alive through a single ugly morning. It does not create a second full day. Open a Venasri account and pick one rung for the week. Mixing $350 and $650 on alternate trades means the life expectancy is the aggressive one.
Translate the rung into lots only after the stop exists
On a major, $10 a pip at 1.00 lot means a 20-pip stop risks $350 at 1.75 lots, $500 at 2.50 lots, and $650 at 3.25 lots. Gold at $10 per 0.10 move on a 50-pip stop risks $350 at 0.70 lots, $500 at 1.00 lot, and $650 at 1.30 lots. If the gold stop is 70 pips, those lots are too big: 1.00 lot would risk $700, already past the top of the band.
Futures point values break traders who think in MT5 lots. One Nasdaq E-mini is $20 a point. A 25-point stop is $500, the middle rung, on one contract. A 60-point structural stop on that E-mini is $1,200, outside the band entirely. A micro at $2 a point needs a 60-point stop to risk $120, so three micros are $360, near the low rung, and five micros are $600, near the high rung. Bot controls should compute cash from the stop distance before the order is accepted.
The same band has to respect a $1,800 green ceiling
Phase 1 on $100,000 is $6,000 across at least 7 days, with a 30 percent best-day share. Thirty percent of $6,000 is $1,800. A 2R winner at the $650 rung is $1,300. Two of them are $2,600, which is already past the consistency ceiling and also past the daily loss if the sign had flipped. The low rung's 2R winner is $700. Two of those are $1,400, still under $1,800. The cautious rung is how you can have a good day without owning the whole evaluation.
A static, end-of-day, or intraday maximum does not change this profit-share math. Intraday trailing adds a second reason to stay at $350 or $500: a larger contract inventory gives back the $3,000 trail faster when the high fades. The band is a loss tool. The $1,800 figure is a profit tool. You need both.
The flatten should arrive before the seventh stop
Seven planned stops assume seven clean fills. They will not all be clean. Set Equity Guard at $1,750, which is 1.75 percent, so the book is flat after about five low-rung losses or three middle-rung losses. That is earlier than the official day, on purpose. If you wait for $2,500, the seventh stop is the firm closing you, and the slip on that stop is the breach.
Be flat before 4:00 PM CT. A late trade at the $650 rung, taken because the day felt quiet, is how a legal afternoon becomes the fourth loss. The band is the size. The clock is the permission. News adds a third gate: funded accounts stay out for 2 minutes on either side of Tier-1, and a slipped stop still counts inside the same $2,500.
