The four rules that use it
- Minimum trading days. At least 2 separate UTC days with a fill.
- Counted days. 8% of account size realised inside one UTC day.
- The 60% rule. Your largest single UTC day of realised profit.
- The loss line. Recalculated at 00:00 UTC from your closed balance.
Where it catches people
Trading either side of UTC midnight. Two sessions that feel like one evening can be two trading days, which helps you toward the minimum. The reverse also holds: a profitable run split across the boundary is two days of smaller profit rather than one large day, which actually helps with the 60% rule.
Using the boundary deliberately
It is legitimate to let the boundary work for you. Closing part of a position before 00:00 UTC and the rest after splits the realised profit across two days, which can turn one day that would breach the 60% rule into two that do not. Nothing in the rules discourages this; it is just arithmetic.
Where it does not apply
The two fourteen-day windows are calendar days, not UTC trading days, and they run continuously including weekends. The 48-hour wallet lock after changing your payout wallet is also wall-clock time.
Checking your own timezone
UTC is GMT without daylight saving. If you are on UK time, UTC midnight is your midnight in winter and 1am in summer. If you are in New York, it is 8pm or 7pm. Work out your offset once and the day-based rules stop being surprising.
Questions people ask
Does the terminal show UTC?
Your rule progress is measured in UTC regardless of how times are displayed locally.
Is a weekend a trading day?
Yes, if you traded. Solana markets run continuously and no weekend rule applies.
Does one trade make a trading day?
Yes. One fill in that UTC day is enough.