📈Stocks: Day Trading

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Ostium introduces high-leverage day trading capabilities specifically tailored for MAG7 stocks. This feature allows traders to utilize up to 100x leverage within specific intraday time constraints, ensuring risk management and compliance with margin requirements.

Trading Conditions

Leverage and Margin Requirements

• Day Trades: Stocks are eligible for leverage up to 100x.

• Overnight Trades: Trades held overnight can not exceed the overnight max leverage — check the pair specific max_overnight_leverage below leverage bar,

Trade Timing

• Day Trading Leverage (Leverage > overnight_leverage):

  • Opening: Enabled from 9:31 AM Eastern Time.

  • Closing: Trades with leverage above overnight_leverage at 3:45 PM Eastern Time are automatically closed.

Example of a day trade position

• Overnight Trades (Leverage <= overnight_leverage):

  • Opening: Can be opened or adjusted any time during regular market hours (9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET).

  • Leverage Cap: Trades intended to be held overnight must either:

    • Have a leverage below or equal to overnight_leverage.

    • Have collateral adjusted to meet overnight margin requirements.

All day trades using leverage greater than overnight_leverage will be forcefully closed 15 minutes before market close (3:45 PM ET) to mitigate overnight risk and comply with leverage policies.