17:00 New York is both the reset and the reopen
Overnight and weekend holding are allowed. You do not need a separate swing add-on to keep a position on. What you need is a size that survives the reopen. The published reset is 17:00 New York, which is also 00:00 on the MT5 server and the hour the FX week typically comes back. The Sunday gap is not charged to a vague weekend bucket. It is the first mark inside the daily allowance that just began.
On a standard index CFD, 10 lots of US30 at $1 per point lose $400 on a 40-point gap and $1,000 on a 100-point gap. Gold at 1.00 lot is $10 per 0.10, so a 100-pip gap is $1,000. Two metals that gap together are one US dollar bet counted twice. Bot controls should know the book is allowed to hold, and they should still cap the combined dollar risk of everything that will be live at 17:00.
A winning Friday does not enlarge Sunday's allowance
Challenge daily loss is a fixed 5% of the starting balance. On $100,000 that is $5,000 even if Friday closed $6,000 ahead. The gap does not get to spend house money. It spends the new day's fixed slice. A trader who holds 1.45 lots of gold into the reopen because the week was green is holding about $1,450 of risk on a 100-pip gap, nearly 30% of the new day, as a leftover rather than as a decision.
Wednesday triple-swap is the quieter version. The charge hits positions carried through the rollover and it counts in the daily bucket that is open when it posts. A large index hold can make that charge material. It will not look like a bad entry. It will look like the balance changed while the platform was quiet. Include it in the hold's cost before you call the trade a swing.
A weekend winner can lift the floor only after you are funded
During the challenge the 10% maximum stays static. A Sunday gap that you survive does not move the $90,000 floor on $100,000, and a Sunday gap that you do not survive spends the $5,000 day first. After the account is a funded Signal Provider, the 10% trails. A weekend that closes at a new high can lift the floor before Monday's cash session. The hold that felt free because the firm allows it becomes the mark the trail uses.
Phase 2 only needs $5,000 of profit, the same size as one day. A weekend gap of $1,500 is 30% of that target if it goes against you, and it is a third of the target if it goes for you. Either way it is too large to be an accident. Start a Venasri account and tag any position that is allowed to see Sunday, with the gap dollars written next to the tag.
Do not carry a wounded book into an open you cannot click
Equity Guard cannot invent liquidity at the reopen. Use it on Friday, or whenever the session is still live. On a $100,000 challenge, flatten near $4,250 so you are not $3,000 down with 1.00 lot of gold still working when the market goes quiet. A gap only needs $2,000 more. The official $5,000 line is a poor place to leave that work, because the gap fills through it.
News does not pause for the weekend. A position you legally held can still be inside Monday's restricted band, when new closes are not allowed in the two minutes around a high-impact print. If Monday's calendar is heavy, Friday is the time to decide. The bi-weekly treasury will not exclude a Sunday loss from the cycle. The fixed day will not exclude it either. Hold what you sized. Close what you forgot.
