Permission is real and it is not a hedge
Overnight and weekend holding are permitted. You will not get a violation solely because a position is open at the Friday close. You will get a breach if Sunday equity tags the daily line, or if the static 10% floor on a 2-step account is touched, or if the 1-step smart trail has risen enough that a gap finishes it. On $100,000 the 2-step day is $5,000 and the lifetime floor is $90,000. A gap does not care which of those it hits first.
There is no time limit on the challenge, so you are not forced to hold over the weekend to make the calendar. Holding is a choice. Create a Venasri login with a weekend size that is smaller than the weekday size. The firm will not force the reduction. Your tail risk should.
Wednesday charges and Sunday gaps are part of the day
Triple-swap Wednesday posts a financing charge that counts like any other debit. Traders who budget only the price stop wake up to a daily loss they did not place a trade for. Sunday gaps do the same job faster. A gold position sized at 1.00 lot, $100 per $1, that gaps $30 is a $3,000 hit, most of a $5,000 day, before London opens. The hold was legal. The math was not kind.
Because the anchor is the higher of balance or equity, a Friday winner left open can raise Monday base if it is still green at 00:00, and a Sunday gap down then spends the richer day. Partial on Friday if the float is large next to $5,000. Bot controls can do that partial on a clock so it does not depend on you remembering at 23:40.
A weekend hold without a stop fails before the gap
The mandatory stop does not expire on Thursday. If you open the swing and the stop is not on the ticket inside 60 seconds, you have already failed, even if the weekend is quiet and the 5% line is never threatened. Manual clicks are the usual source. Decide the stop, then click, then confirm it on MT5 or Match-Trader. A line on a chart is not a stop.
Request count is quieter on a swing than on a scalp, which is a point in favor of holding fewer, better trades. Do not spend the quiet by trailing every few minutes through Friday. Two thousand requests a day is still the cap. A swing should use a handful of modifies, not a stream, or the weekend hold fails on activity before it fails on price.
Leave the guard on when you leave the desk
Equity Guard near $4,250 on a $100,000 2-step account should be armed before Friday evening, not checked on Monday. On 1-step use about $3,250 against the $4,000 day, and remember the trail may already be higher than $94,000. A guard that only runs during London is a diary of weekday intentions. Gaps do not keep office hours.
Three 0.5% days can include a Monday that survives the gap, and they cannot include a Monday that breaches. If the swing is not sized so a reasonable gap fits inside the guard, close it. The 80% to 100% split and the $500 salary are paid to traders who still have accounts on Monday. Permission to hold is not an instruction to hold full size.
