The split changes the check, not the floor
Eighty percent of $3,000 is $2,400. Ninety-five percent of $3,000 is $2,850. The $450 difference is worth knowing, and it is smaller than one bad day. If the account prints the $2,500 daily line, there is no check to split. Capital increases when milestones are reached without that print. A scale that shows up after a day which touched the line is a story the risk desk will not corroborate.
The buffer for day-one eligibility is a funded gate. The articles and the contract will name its size on your paperwork. What this page can say for certain is that eligibility is not the same as the evaluation's 7-day minimum. You can be allowed to ask for a withdrawal early in the funded life and still have owed a full week of evaluation days before you got there. Open a Venasri account and separate the eval card from the funded card so the buffer is not used as an excuse to rush the 7 days.
A larger book makes 2.5 percent a larger dollar day
On $100,000 the day is $2,500 and the maximum is $3,000. If the allocation grows, both percentages apply to the new balance the day it posts. A $500 stop that was half a percent becomes a smaller slice, which is safe and slow. A trader who doubles the contracts because the account doubled has kept the percentage, which is the actual plan. A trader who doubles the contracts because the split feels generous has changed the plan.
The drawdown style travels with you. Static, end-of-day at 4:00 PM CT, or intraday trailing will ratchet or not ratchet on the new balance exactly as it did on the old one. Intraday trailing on a larger contract count fails faster in points. Two E-minis giving back 75 points are still $3,000, but on a bigger book you may be holding more than two. Bot controls should reload the contract cap on the morning the scale is visible, not after the first oversized fill.
A scale request can be blocked by a beautiful day
During the evaluation, a best day above 30 percent of profit raises the hurdle. A $2,400 day against a $6,000 target pushes the required total toward $8,000. That same habit on a funded book, one session that is the entire month, is a poor input to a scale conversation even when the payout split would have been 95 percent. The firm is paying for repeatable profit. A single afternoon is not a milestone.
Wednesday-style calendars from other firms are not this calendar. Here the distinctive funded timing is day-one eligibility once the buffer exists, inside an 80 to 95 percent split. You still flatten before 4:00 PM CT. A scale does not create a weekend hold. The CME close remains the close.
Move the flatten on the same day the balance moves
Equity Guard at 1.75 percent is $1,750 on $100,000. On a larger allocation, 1.75 percent is a new dollar figure. Leaving $1,750 in place after a scale means you flatten too early relative to the new day, which is annoying and safe. Leaving it in place after a balance cut means you flatten too late. Equity Guard has to be edited when the balance is edited.
The official day remains 0.75 percent beyond that flatten, because 2.5 minus 1.75 is 0.75. On $100,000 that pocket is $750. Keep the pocket in percentage terms so it survives the scale. Then be flat before 4:00 PM CT. A funded account that wants a bigger book tomorrow should look, tonight, like an account that can stop.
