The trading session: 6pm ET futures, 5pm ET CFD
Why a trade closed Tuesday evening counts toward Wednesday — for your prop rules and your stats alike.
Each account's trading day follows its market, and it's named for the day it ends.
- Futures — starts at 6pm ET and ends at 5pm ET the next afternoon. A trade you close on Tuesday at 6:30pm ET belongs to Wednesday's session.
- CFD & Forex — starts at 5pm ET and runs to 5pm ET the next day. A trade you close on Tuesday at 5:30pm ET belongs to Wednesday's session; on a futures account it would be Tuesday's.
The account's market sets its start time, and both lock once the account has trades. A trade keeps its own account's day, so if you trade both markets, each trade lands by its own account's clock.
Where Ink uses sessions
Every prop rule: the daily loss limit, the largest day in consistency, the end-of-day drawdown peak and minimum trading days. Their cards name it: "session 6pm–5pm ET" on a futures account, "session 5pm–5pm ET" on a CFD & Forex account.
Your stats use the session day too
The calendar, your Days, week totals, period and calendar cards, Recap, Goals and every stat use the same session day: on a futures account, the Tuesday 6:30pm trade shows on Wednesday everywhere. One difference: while the market is closed — Friday after the start time, Saturday, and Sunday before the start time — a trade keeps its own date as its own day in your stats (prop rules count it toward Monday's session).
How a time maps to a session
sessionDateOf (lib/pnl/trading-session.ts): add 6 hours (futures) or 7 hours (CFD & Forex) to the New York time, then take the date.
| Trade closed (ET) | Futures session | CFD & Forex session |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 4:59pm | Tuesday | Tuesday |
| Tuesday 5:00pm | Tuesday (the 5–6pm pause: the session that just ended) | Wednesday |
| Tuesday 5:59pm | Tuesday | Wednesday |
| Tuesday 6:00pm | Wednesday | Wednesday |
| Tuesday 6:30pm | Wednesday | Wednesday |
| Friday 5:30pm | Friday | Saturday |
| Friday 6:30pm | Monday | Saturday |
| Saturday noon | Monday | Saturday |
| Sunday noon | Monday | Sunday |
| Sunday 7:00pm | Monday | Monday |
On a futures account there's no session from the Friday start time to the Sunday start time, so anything stamped then (usually a trade logged by hand) counts toward Monday. On a CFD & Forex account Saturday and Sunday are their own days, so a weekend crypto trade counts on its own day.
What's not modelled
Exchange holidays and early closes. On those days Ink still uses the account's normal boundary.