{"id":268,"date":"2024-08-19T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global.ftmo.com\/au\/faq\/do-i-have-to-close-my-positions-overnight\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:21:43","slug":"do-i-have-to-close-my-positions-overnight","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/au\/faq\/do-i-have-to-close-my-positions-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I have to close my positions overnight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australian clients holding an FTMO Account Swing are not required to close their positions overnight or during the weekend.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/en\/symbols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, if you become a <\/span><b>professional trader<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and get a\u00a0 FTMO Account with 1:100 leverage, we require you to close your positions just before the markets close for the weekend or if the rollover (market break) is longer than 2 hours. Our Australian professional FTMO Traders having the FTMO Account with 1:100 leverage must respect the market timings. Every asset class and its respective instruments might have different trading hours that have to be adhered to.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/en\/symbols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Standard market hours are visible in the trading platforms and at our <\/span><a href=\"\/au\/symbols\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Symbols<\/a> site, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">however, trading hours are routinely subject to changes based on major holidays or other events. All changes to standard market hours are announced in the<\/span> <a href=\"\/au\/trading-updates\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Trading Updates<\/a> section and we highly recommend visiting this page regularly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0section and we highly recommend visiting this page regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In MetaTrader, when you open the Market Watch (Ctrl+M), right-click on the instrument of your interest, and choose \u2018Specification\u2019. In the dialogue window, scroll down and you can see the \u2018Trade\u2019 hours of the subject instrument. These are the standard market hours applicable most days (unless specified otherwise in the Trading Updates).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the cTrader platform, open Markets \u2013 right-click on the instrument of your interest, and choose \u2018Market Symbol\u2019. The trade hours will be displayed in the same dialogue window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you trade cryptocurrencies, some can be traded during specific hours of the weekend as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"faq-category":[9],"class_list":["post-268","faq","type-faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","faq-category-rules"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.3 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do I have to close my positions overnight? | FTMO Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ftmo.com\/au\/faq\/do-i-have-to-close-my-positions-overnight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do I have to close my positions overnight?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian clients holding an FTMO Account Swing are not required to close their positions overnight or during the weekend. 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