🕒 Weekend Threat — Why Good Merchants Shut on Fridays
🎯 The Lesson
The market closes on Friday, however threat doesn’t.
Between Friday night and Monday morning, worth retains transferring — you simply can’t see it.
That’s why professionals don’t gamble with weekend holds.
They know that gaps kill good accounts.
⚙️ What Weekend Gaps Actually Are
A weekend hole occurs when worth opens on Monday distant from Friday’s shut.
It’s brought on by information, geopolitical occasions, or institutional orders in the course of the off-hours.
Instance:
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You shut Friday at EUR/USD = 1.0800
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On Monday, it opens at 1.0850 — a 50-pip soar
In case your cease loss was at 1.0820, it’s skipped — and your commerce exits at 1.0850 as a substitute.
That’s an additional 30 pips of slippage — pure harm.
📊 How Gaps Affect Threat
Let’s say you commerce 1 lot (≈ $10 per pip).
A 50-pip hole = $500 loss immediately — even when your cease was positioned.
On a $10,000 account, that’s –5% in a single day with zero management.
Multiply that by a number of positions or correlated pairs, and also you’re taking a look at a catastrophe Monday morning.
💡 What Professionals Do As a substitute
1️⃣ Shut most positions on Friday earlier than the New York session ends.
2️⃣ Maintain solely long-term swing trades if:
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Cease loss is large sufficient to outlive a niche
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Threat per commerce is below 1%
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The pair isn’t news-sensitive (keep away from GBP, oil, or gold earlier than weekends)
3️⃣ Re-enter on Monday after the market stabilizes within the first few hours.
🔑 Good Rule: “Flat Earlier than the Weekend”
Make it a behavior:
“If I can’t monitor it, I don’t maintain it.”
Foreign exchange runs 24/5.
You don’t get additional credit score for taking part in 24/7.
🚀 Takeaway
Your purpose isn’t to be available in the market on a regular basis — it’s to be in management on a regular basis.
Weekends supply zero management, so professionals step apart.
Bear in mind: no commerce is best than a weekend shock.
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