Standard funded accounts have to be flat
On Standard funded accounts the position is closed before the weekend. Leaving it open is a rule break, not a bold swing. The same tier also restricts red-folder news in a 2-minute window before the release and a 2-minute window after it. If you start a free Venasri account, write the flatten into the session plan before Friday liquidity thins out.
Evaluation structure still includes the 2-Step Challenge on both Standard and Swing, plus a separate 1-Step product. The weekend ban above is stated for Standard funded accounts. Do not assume a challenge login and a funded login share the holding clause.
Swing keeps the weekend open and drops the news block
FTMO Swing accounts allow weekend holding, and news is unrestricted on that tier. The price of that permission is 1:30 maximum leverage. You do not get the full intraday gearing of a Standard book and the right to carry Friday into Monday. Traders who actually hold should buy Swing rather than hope a Standard review forgives a weekend ticket.
The static 10% maximum on the 2-Step path does not change because you chose Swing. Daily loss is still 5% on that path, reset at 00:00 CE(S)T from the day-start balance plus floating profit and loss. A Sunday gap is just another print against that daily line. Park Equity Guard under the 5% figure before the weekend, not after the gap has already printed.
Wednesday swap and the Sunday gap spend the same daily budget
The triple swap charged on Wednesday is not a side fee that sits outside the drawdown. It counts toward the 5% daily loss. So does the gap when the market reopens on Sunday. A position that looked safe on Friday can fail on the open without a new decision.
That is why a wide structural stop still needs a cash number. If the gap plus the swap can reach the daily line, the hold is too large for the account you bought. The 1-Step daily line is tighter still, at 3%, so the same gap spends a bigger share of that day.
A legal hold still needs a stop and a request budget
Swing does not waive the 2,000 order and modification request ceiling. Trailing a stop every few seconds through Friday can burn the budget before Monday's gap arrives. Use MT5 bot control to keep the protective edits few and deliberate. Manual tickets should already have a stop attached so the Sunday open is not a naked print.
Four minimum trading days and the 10% then 5% targets belong to the 2-Step evaluation. They do not override the funded weekend clause. Pass the challenge on the account type you intend to hold. Switching behavior after the funded email is how Standard accounts die on a Friday.
