What time does the trading day reset (timezone) and why it matters

TL;DR

Your daily limits reset at 00:00 AM UTC. That timestamp defines your new daily start equity, which defines your daily-loss buffer.

How it works

• At 00:00 AM UTC, the system snapshots your equity and calls it “day start equity.”
• From that moment until the next reset, your equity can’t drop more than your daily % limit.
• This is why we tell you: don’t get tricked by timezone, use a converter.

Common gotchas

• If you trade late in your local evening, you might be minutes away from a new daily start line (and your headroom can change fast).
• If you’re floating loss at reset, you’re basically starting the new day already limping.
• If you’re floating profit at reset, your “start equity” is higher… but don’t use that as an excuse to size up into stupidity.
• Your dashboard is the official scoreboard: don’t guess.

Example

It’s 23:55 UTC and you’re down -2.8% on a 3% daily limit. You open a new trade. A spread pop pushes equity to -3.01% before reset → breached. Five minutes later you would have had a fresh day. Painful. Avoidable.

Related FAQs

• What is Max Daily Loss (daily drawdown) and how is it calculated?
• Slippage & micro-breaches: “I only went over by $0.01”
• Do spreads/commissions/swaps count toward drawdown?