The reset uses closed balance plus whatever is still open
FTMO builds the daily test from the day-start balance plus floating profit and loss. At 00:00 CE(S)T the closed balance becomes the new anchor if you left the runner on. If you start a free Venasri account, mark Prague midnight on the session clock you actually trade, not on an exchange clock from another platform.
On a $100,000 2-Step account the official daily line is 5%, or $5,000. After a rebase, that $5,000 is measured from the higher closed balance. A $3,000 giveback the next morning is not yesterday's problem. It is today's.
A winning ledger and a losing morning can be the same trade
Picture a day that banks profit and leaves a gold or index runner open. The dashboard looks passed. Overnight the runner gives back a large piece of the float. Because the allowance reset against the closed balance, the giveback spends the new day. You did not take a new signal. You kept an old one past the clock.
The 1-Step daily line is 3%, so the same giveback is a larger share of that shorter day. The 1-Step maximum also trails at the end of the day, which can move the lifetime floor on the same strong close. Two different math problems can arrive from one held winner.
Standard weekend rules and the request cap are the other quiet traps
Standard funded accounts must be flat before the weekend, and they restrict red-folder news in the 2-minute window before the release and the 2-minute window after it. A trader who only watches the midnight float can still fail Friday for a different clause. Swing allows the hold at 1:30 maximum leverage and does not restrict news, but the Prague rebase still applies.
2,000 order and modification requests a day is a third quiet failure. Protecting the float with constant stop edits can flag the account before the price does. The static 10% floor, $10,000 on $100,000, is not the trap that hits first. The new day's 5% is.
Close the float or guard the next allowance
The practical choice at 23:50 CE(S)T is to close the runner or to accept that its giveback belongs to tomorrow. Equity Guard should sit inside the 5% line of the day you are about to enter, not the day you just finished. On the pass plan that lock is 4.25% for the 5% product only.
Use MT5 bot control so partial closes at planned targets happen before the clock, on MT5, MT4, cTrader, or DXtrade. Four minimum trading days do not protect you from a midnight rebase on day two. The $540 fee on the $100,000 evaluation is lost the same way a slow 10% bleed would lose it.
