Swing Trading Prop Firm: Hold Overnight and Over the Weekend

The Swing Trading Prop Firm Built for Overnight Positions

Most traders searching for a swing trading prop firm hit the same wall: nearly every futures prop firm is intraday only. You can trade all day, but every position has to be flat before the session closes. For a swing trader, that is a dealbreaker. Swing trading is the art of holding a position for days or weeks to ride a larger move, and you cannot do that if the firm liquidates you every afternoon.

Phidias solves this with the Premium account. It is the one account type that lets you hold positions overnight and over the weekend, so you can trade the way swing traders actually trade: enter on a setup, let the trend develop across sessions, and manage the position on your own timeframe. If you have been looking for a prop firm that allows overnight positions on futures, this is it.

Why Most Prop Firms Do Not Allow Overnight Holding

Intraday-only rules exist because they cap the firm's risk. Overnight gaps can move against a position while the market is closed, so most firms simply forbid holding past the close. It is the easy answer for them, but it quietly removes an entire category of strategy for you. The trader pays for the firm's convenience.

Premium takes a different path. It keeps the same End of Day trailing drawdown as the Fundamental account, so risk is still clearly bounded, and then allows overnight and weekend holds on top of it. You get real swing trading with published, transparent limits, not a vague promise you can lose at any time.

What You Get With a Premium Swing Account

Premium is not just about holding overnight. It is the most advantaged account at Phidias, designed for serious traders who want flexibility and speed:

• Overnight and weekend holding on both the evaluation and the funded Cash account
• Cash funded in one trading day after you pass, with a one-day evaluation minimum
• Payouts every five days once you are funded
• Progressive profit split that climbs from 75% to a full 100% as you stack payouts
• News trading allowed, so you can trade and hold through economic events
• Cash Account Reset, a Premium-only safety net that lets you reset a funded Cash account once if it hits its drawdown

Available in 50K, 100K, and 150K sizes, with a one-time payment option that removes the monthly subscription and the activation fee entirely. The configurator above shows the live price and every rule for each size.

Swing trading vs day trading on a prop firm

Day trading forces every decision into a single session and lives or dies on short-term noise. Swing trading aligns with how large institutional flows actually move markets, over days and weeks, which is why many traders find it steadier and less screen-bound. A prop firm that only allows intraday trading pushes you toward the harder game. Premium lets you choose the timeframe that fits your edge.

How to start swing trading with Phidias capital

Pick a Premium size in the configurator, choose the one-time payment to skip fees, and start the evaluation. Hit the profit target while respecting the trailing drawdown, with a one-day minimum, and your funded Cash account activates in a single trading day. From there you hold overnight and over the weekend, request a payout every five days, and watch your split climb toward 100%.

Want the fastest possible path to a first payout instead? Compare Premium with the fastest payout accounts, or see the full lineup on the accounts page.