Check the add-on before you check the chart
The default is not "swing allowed." The rule is weekend holding with an optional add-on or on specific account types. A 2-Phase login without the add-on and an Instant login with a different contract are not the same Friday. Traders who passed a swing-friendly evaluation and then fund a type that must be flat will donate the first weekend to a rule they stopped reading. The $475 fee does not include every add-on.
Register on Venasri and write "flat Friday" or "add-on held" on the login. Bot profiles that swing by default will open a hold the account is not allowed to carry. EAs are legal on phased evaluations and illegal on Instant, so an automated Friday hold on Instant fails twice: once for the bot, and once if the account type cannot carry the weekend.
The gap spends whichever daily line you have
A 100-pip gold gap at 0.10 lots is about $1,000 if 0.10 lots is $10 per pip. At 0.40 lots it is about $4,000, the entire 2-Phase day, and more than the 1-Phase day of $3,000. The 3-Phase static maximum is only $5,000, so a $4,000 gap leaves $1,000 of lifetime room even if the hold was permitted. Triple-swap on Wednesday is smaller and still posts inside the same daily envelope. Include it when the day is already red.
The reset is 00:00 GMT+2 or GMT+3. Some tiers anchor the day to the closed balance. Others use the higher of equity. If yours uses the higher of equity, a +$1,500 Friday float raises Monday's base before the gap prints. Equity Guard at $3,250 fits the 2-Phase loss line on Equity Guard. It does not fit the 1-Phase $3,000 line. Know the tier before you trust the dollar.
Lightning consistency does not sleep on Saturday
A weekend swing that makes $4,000 can be a fine 2-Phase trade and a 40% problem on Lightning or Instant if the cycle is only $10,000. The score is 30% to 40%. One gap winner can delay the 24-hour payout you bought the speed for. One gap loser can end the $4,000 day you thought started on Monday. The five minimum trading days are not five weekend holds. A single swing is not five days.
News on Monday still follows the tier. Standard evaluations may hold the release. Lightning and Instant may not. Coming out of a weekend add-on into a restricted Monday folder is two different permissions in twelve hours. Be flat before the folder if the funded product restricts it, even if the weekend add-on was valid.
Flat, or half size with a resting stop
Bot Control should flatten on Friday when the add-on is absent, and it should cut a permitted hold down so a 100-pip gap is near $500, not $4,000. The stop has to be in the market before the session thins. A mental stop over the weekend is not a stop.
The trailing 6% maximum on the 1-Phase can tighten after Friday's close, so a permitted weekend hold on that path starts against a higher floor. The 2-Phase static $10,000 floor does not lift. Either way the gap is daily loss. The add-on is worth buying only if your method actually needs the swing. It is an expensive way to discover a $4,000 hole on Sunday night.
