Swing includes the hold, and some Instant tiers sell it
Weekend holding requires the weekend add-on on selected Instant tiers. It is included on Swing tiers. The mistake is a screenshot from a Swing account used as permission on an Instant account that never bought the add-on. Friday's ticket is then a rule break before it is a gap. If the add-on is on, the hold is legal and the gap is still your risk. Legal does not mean free.
The firm is a London shop on MT5, cTrader, Match-Trader, and DXtrade. Server midnight is 00:00 on that server, and the daily anchor is the higher of day-start balance or equity. A Friday float marked at that snapshot can raise Sunday's starting line. Open a Venasri account and write the tier name next to the hold permission so Swing and Instant are not one toggle.
Triple swap and the Sunday gap spend the same daily budget
Wednesday financing on a spot book often posts three days of swap to cover the weekend. That debit counts toward the daily loss. It will not be large next to a $5,000 day on a modest FX position, and it can be large on an oversized gold hold. A Sunday gap is the violent version of the same idea. Gold at 1.00 lot is $100 per $1. A $15 gap is $1,500. At 1.45 lots it is about $2,175. That is almost half of a 2-step day and most of a 1-step $3,000 day.
If you did not buy the hold, you should have been flat, and the gap should not exist. If you did buy it, size the hold for the gap you can survive, not for the Friday trend you liked. Bot controls should cut exposure before the weekend even on a legal Swing account, unless the cash risk of a plausible gap is inside the unit you wrote down.
00:00 can reprice the hold before Sunday even opens
The higher of balance or equity at 00:00 becomes the next day's base. A $3,000 open gold winner held through that snapshot is 3 percent of a $100,000 account. If the anchor uses it, Monday starts from a richer number, and a full giveback spends $3,000 of the new day before the Sunday gap is even counted. Closed profit does not do this. Open profit does.
The plus-5 evaluation lock is a second weekend hazard. If the float is what pushes you through $5,000, the maximum floor can lock at $95,000 while you are away from the screen. You come back to a tighter account and a position. Banking the gain on Friday avoids both the snapshot and the accidental lock. The 14-day payout cycle will still see the closed profit.
The flatten has to be armed while you are asleep
Equity Guard at $4,250 on a 2-step $100,000 book, or $2,250 on a 1-step book, is the backstop for a gap that runs. It will fill at a bad price if the market jumps over it, and that fill is still better than an unattended 1.45 lot. The guard does not convert an illegal hold into a legal one. If the tier needs an add-on and you do not have it, the correct state on Friday is flat.
Check the position at 00:00, not only on Friday afternoon. A ticket that was small at 16:00 UTC can be a large float by the snapshot. Partial it. The Swing inclusion and the Instant add-on are permissions to carry risk you sized. They are not permissions to discover the size on Sunday.
