Some firms record payouts as "Challenge Payout" in the Cash History
rather than "Fund Transaction" or "Manual Adjustment". Without this the
payout was summed into that day's P&L (a -2,000 payout turned a +1,416
day into -584) and never reset the cycle, so daysTraded kept counting
and the stage never advanced.
Verified against a captured report: the payout is now recorded as a
fund transaction, excluded from daily P&L, and because its timestamp
precedes the day's first trade the day's trades land in the new cycle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>