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Working note6 minForex, futures and crypto
The futures clock is a rule, not a preference
A session that runs from the evening into the next afternoon is one trading day. Your broker’s midnight may not be the firm’s.
Retail forex platforms often reset a daily loss at a server midnight. Futures evaluations often define a trading day as a session that starts in the evening, Central Time, and ends the next afternoon. Topstep’s daily-loss article describes 5:00 p.m. CT to 3:10 p.m. CT. A loss at 4:00 p.m. CT and a loss at 6:00 p.m. CT are not ‘the same day’ on that clock, and they are not two days either until you read the halt.
What to write down before the open
- The timezone named on the rule page, not the timezone of your laptop.
- Whether the daily loss resets then, or only the session flatten does.
- Whether positions must be flat at the halt. If the page does not say, the record stays unknown.
- Whether news restrictions use the same clock.