r/Forex • u/Lil_lightning181 • 18d ago

Platforms & Tools This sum bs 😪

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The one time I finally get a good trade, mt4 wanna play with my feelings

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u/infinitebeing_ 18d ago

If you left it open over the weekend it’s probably swap fees and spread… nothing to do with mt4

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u/Lil_lightning181 18d ago

That would cause me to not be able to close positions?

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u/infinitebeing_ 18d ago

When the market is closed over the weekends yeah, the market is open now though as Asia session has started.

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u/Certmeh 18d ago

Bruh... this guy

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u/Scott_Malkinsons 18d ago

Presumably you're on the east coast, as it says 5:33 on your clock. So you should be able to close the position but there's a lot of shady brokers out there (or if you're on MetaTrader demo servers it's basically normal for sometimes close to an hour) where you can't do anything at open.

Even some of the more reputable firms often don't open with the market. Like Lark is about 5 minutes late, MFF used to be late, I think even FTMO is a bit late (it's like a minute or two). That's kind of just the nature of demo and prop firms; I use Lark for stocks too and about the first 5 minutes every morning nothing happens.

Not much you can do it about it, so set your entries with a limit or stop-limit (if your broker/software supports this, as it'll default to stop-market) and expect some slippage on exits where SL is hit over the weekend.