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Can I hold trades overnight or over the weekend?
Can I hold trades overnight or over the weekend?

Details about holding trades over the weekend or overnight

Updated over a week ago

Weekend Trading

Purple Trading

  • Unfortunately, Simulated crypto trading is not allowed on Purple Trading during the weekend.

Eightcap

  • Simulated Crypto trading is permitted on weekends for Phase 1, 2 and Funded for the following accounts:

    • Rapid Challenge

    • Royal Challenge

    • Knights Challenge

    • Standard Challenge

ThinkMarkets

  • Simulated Crypto trading is permitted on weekends however it is closed every Saturday between 5am and 9am EST which is the broker's maintenance window. They also have an hour break on Friday after market close between 5pm and 6pm EST.

Accounts Not Allowed to Trade Over the Weekend

As of June 20th, 2022, The Funded Trader does not allow holding simulated trades over weekends for the following account types (Challenge & Funded):

  • Standard Challenge - Regular Account

  • Rapid Challenge - Regular Account

IMPORTANT:

  • Traders are fully responsible to ensure their open simulated trades are closed each week on Friday by 4:00 pm EST. We encourage traders to manually close their simulated trades.

  • Our system is designed to liquidate all open simulated trades on all regular accounts each Friday at 4:00 pm EST, send an email notification informing our clients, and turn demo accounts on read-only until just before market-open the following week.

  • However, it is possible for minor time delays in this process that can result in some simulated trades not closing prior to the 4:00 pm EST cutoff time, thus resulting in a breached account.

  • The Funded Trader is not responsible for breached accounts where traders do not ensure their simulated trades are closed on Fridays by 4:00 pm EST on regular accounts.

  • To avoid a possible breach of your account for not complying with this rule, we encourage all traders to manually close their simulated trades on each Friday by 4:00 pm EST.

Accounts Allowed to Trade Over the Weekend

The Funded Trader does allow holding trades over weekends for the following challenge accounts:

  • Standard Challenge - Swing Account

  • Rapid Challenge - Swing Account

  • Royal Challenge

  • Knight's Challenge

Accounts Allowed to Hold Trades Overnight

The Funded Trader does allow holding trades overnight on weekdays (between Monday to Friday) for the following challenge accounts:

  • Standard Challenge - Regular & Swing

  • Rapid Challenge - Regular & Swing

  • Royal Challenge

  • Knight challenge

Holding Forex / Crypto / Metals / Indices over the weekend

  • Please be aware, however, of the risks associated with market gaps when trading pairs that do not stay open with weekend trading hours like Forex pairs, Indices, and Commodities.

  • As a risk manager, it is your job to determine the risks and rewards of holding a simulated position over the weekend and we do not want to limit a trader's strategy.

  • If a gap occurs and causes a violation, that is the trader’s responsibility.

Holding Shares

  • We do not allow the trading of shares and therefore we do not support trading shares over the weekend or overnight.

Drawdown Considerations

  • The simulated max daily drawdown resets every day at 5:00 PM EST. To ensure smooth functionality, we advise our simulated traders to not execute trades in between the window of 4:57 PM - 5:03 PM EST when the drawdown is being reset.

  • Once your last simulated balance/equity (whichever is higher) is pulled for the trading day your dashboard will update with your new simulated Daily Breach Level. This is the amount your account simulated equity must stay above in order to not be breached.

If you would like to make a switch from a Regular to a Swing demo account, or vice versa, please message our live chat or support email at

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