Day-of-week effects: do you trade Mondays and Fridays differently?

Monday gaps and thin liquidity, Friday position-squaring and the weekend risk premium — the days aren't interchangeable, and strategies that ignore the calendar of the week pay for it.

Day-of-week effects: do you trade Mondays and Fridays differently? — bid-ask spread diagram
The bid-ask spread on a currency pair

What's your day-based plan?

  • which days you trade and which you skip
  • how Friday's weekend risk changes your stops and holding
  • a day-of-week stat from your own journal
Day-of-week effects: do you trade Mondays and Fridays differently? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

The weekend gaps guide covers the Friday-to-Sunday risk in detail.

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