Prague time is not a reason to trade Tokyo EURUSD
00:00 CE(S)T reset is an accounting event. It is not a liquidity event for EURUSD. ADX under 18 plus a 1.4-pip spread inside an 18-pip box makes a 10-pip stop donate about 18% of its edge to friction. FTMO still counts every scratch toward the 4-day minimum, which is how traders collect legal days with negative expectancy.
overtrading above 10 trades/day is the night count. By 07:00 UTC the book is often -2% ($2,000 of the $5,000 daily). London then has $3,000 of room, which one impulse can finish.
Start London flat, not down 2%
Session Quality Gate on scalp and intraday engines is 07:00-20:00 UTC with spread < 0.5x ATR. That is the FTMO play. activate Venasri free on your MT5 account so night clicks are refused. If you trade JPY crosses in Tokyo hours, switch symbols. Do not copy a London EURUSD method onto a dead tape because you cannot sleep.
Guard the insomnia ticket anyway
Night modify bursts also spend the 2,000-request budget. Do not tick-trail a range. There is nothing to trail.
Use the 4-day minimum on London and NY only
Four quality sessions beat twelve Asian scratches. If you already printed 10 trades before 06:00 UTC, you are done for the CE(S)T day even if PnL is small. That is the overtrading rail. Swing overnight holds are for planned D1 ideas with locked stops, not for M5 boredom.
Hit the 10-trade cap, flatten, sleep. The $540 fee is not recovered at 03:00 CE(S)T.
