Chronos allows news trading and weekend holding on evaluation and funded accounts. Allowed does not mean free of risk.
News releases
Around major releases (interest rates, CPI, non-farm payrolls) spreads widen and stops can slip. A stop 10 pips away may fill 25 pips away. Reduce size or widen the stop and reduce size further.
Weekend gaps
Markets can open on Monday far from Friday’s close. Your stop fills at the first available price, which may be beyond it. Only hold over the weekend with a position small enough that a large gap stays inside your daily loss.
A checklist
- Check the economic calendar every morning.
- Know your daily floor before entering around news.
- Cut size in half for trades held over the weekend.
- Never hold a position whose worst case breaches the maximum loss.