The 2-to-30 minute red-folder window
Lottery dopamine is the neuro trigger. Passing an entire 8% or 10% target on one candle is the fantasy. The live tape is a 200-millisecond gap through your stop. That is not a strategy sample. It is a coin flip with a fat tail against you.
CPI slippage math on 4.00 lots of gold
Planned risk: 30 pips on 4.00 lots of XAUUSD, about $1,200. Vacuum slip: +65 pips. Fill: -95 pips, about -$3,800. On a $100,000 5% daily cap ($5,000) that is 76% of the day used in a fraction of a second. A second spike against a remaining ticket finishes the evaluation. The calendar was public. The size was a choice.
Blackout, STOPLEVEL retries, equity poll
Venasri connects to MetaTrader 5 and protects the account with Equity Guard, Manual Trade Guard, and position-size limits. Internal signal rules, model design, and connection details are not published here.
Flat is a position into CPI and NFP
If your edge is post-news structure, trade the first closed M15 after the window, with 0.8x ATR proximity, not the spike itself. That is still a setup. The straddle is not.