Firm-by-firm policy
The gap-risk problem on trailing-DD firms
A trader holds USDJPY over a weekend on a FundingPips Zero account. The Friday close is 150.40 with the account balance at 102,600). Sunday-evening reopen, an unexpected BOJ statement gaps USDJPY to 149.50 — 90 pips against the position. At a 0.5-lot size, that’s a 107,550. The trailing DD floor is unchanged (it only moved up on prior peaks, doesn’t move down). But the operator’s account is now $4,950 above the floor — uncomfortably close. Worst case: the gap is large enough to immediately breach the daily-loss cap on Monday open. FundingPips’ 3% daily cap on 3,240. A 90-pip gap on a 1.0-lot USDJPY position (3,600) breaches the daily cap on Monday.Swap cost math
For multi-night holds, swap is a real cost. Typical EURUSD long swap on a prop-firm broker: -5 per night per standard lot. Triple-swap Wednesday night (banks settle Friday for spot-FX, so Wednesday→Thursday gets 3 nights of swap). A 5-day swing on 1.0 lot EURUSD pays 40 in swap, against a typical 30-pip move = $300 profit. Swap eats 7–13% of the gross. Some firms (Apex on futures contracts) don’t have swap because the instrument settles overnight without rollover.Operational planning
Three workflows for swing traders:1. Close-and-reopen (most common)
Flatten Friday afternoon, reopen Sunday/Monday at market price. Accepts the loss of Friday-close-to-Monday-open profit drift; eliminates gap risk + swap cost. Conservative; most swing systems use this.2. Hold-with-tight-stops
Keep position open through weekend with a stop-loss tightened to 1.5R of typical gap risk. Captures Friday-to-Monday drift on the upside; bounded loss on the downside.3. Hedge into the weekend
Open an offsetting position on a correlated instrument (long EURUSD + long DXY, for example) to flatten directional exposure across the weekend. Costs spread on both positions; eliminates gap risk.How Glitch Executor encodes this
The Strategy IR has aschedule.weekendFlat boolean (default true). When true, the compiled cBot/EA closes all open positions by Friday 16:00 EST and refuses new entries after Friday 12:00 EST. Combine with schedule.holidayFlat to avoid holding through known market holidays (US Independence Day, UK Bank Holidays, etc.) where the same gap-risk logic applies.