- Swing traders need: no daily loss limit, weekend hold allowed, longer timeframes
- Top three: City Traders Imperium (no daily loss), The5%ers High-Stakes, BluFX
- For Instant Funding with swing-style entries: The5%ers
- Most challenge-based firms have daily loss limits — read the rules carefully
Swing trading collides with the standard prop firm rulebook in one specific place: the daily loss limit. A position held overnight can gap through the limit while you sleep, voiding the account before you wake up. The firms below are the ones that have either removed the daily loss limit or relaxed it enough to make multi-day holds practical. In practice, this is a smaller list than the firm-shortlist articles suggest, and the trade-offs (lower profit splits, monthly subscriptions) are real.
Top picks
City Traders Imperium
- The Long-Term Trader plan has no daily loss limit
- Weekend hold allowed
- Flexible news-trading rules
The5%ers High-Stakes
- 1-step evaluation, +8% target
- No daily loss limit on the High-Stakes program
- Well-suited for swing-style entries
BluFX
- Monthly subscription model
- No daily loss limit on some plans
- Lower base profit split (50%)
Why the daily loss limit matters for swing
Swing traders hold positions overnight, and markets gap. By contrast, a day trader closes flat and can choose to skip a session entirely. A swing trader cannot — once the position is open, the daily loss limit applies to whatever happens overnight, including events scheduled for the next trading day.