Trading day boundary — TradeScope docs

Choose whether a trading day runs midnight to midnight, or follows the CME futures session like your prop firm does.

Futures trade almost around the clock, so “one day” depends on where you draw the line. TradeScope lets you choose. Change it in Settings → General → Trading day boundary.

The three choices

Trading day boundary and revenge-trade window in Settings, General

Choice	A day runs from	Best for
Calendar day (default)	Midnight to midnight, your computer’s time	Matching NinjaTrader’s Trade Performance grid
CME Globex	6:00 PM to 6:00 PM, New York time	Matching your prop firm’s daily ledger and NinjaTrader’s Accounts tab
Custom…	Any time you pick, in one of several time zones	Other sessions or brokers

Under CME Globex, a fill on Sunday at 7:30 PM ET counts toward Monday, the same way the exchange and most prop firms count it. The setting shows which session “right now” belongs to, so you can check it.

What it changes

The boundary decides which day every trade belongs to, everywhere: the Calendar, Dashboard, Journal, charts, reset dates and excluded days. Nothing stored changes, so you can switch back and forth freely. The Execution Timeline always uses calendar days.

Why “This Month” might show next month

With CME Globex on, the new trading day starts at 6:00 PM ET. So on the evening of the last day of a month, after 6:00 PM ET, TradeScope is already on the 1st of the next month. This Month, This Week and Today all follow the trading day, not your computer’s date. That’s expected, and it matches how your prop firm books the trades.

Numbers that differ from NinjaTrader

NinjaTrader’s Trade Performance grid always uses calendar days. With CME Globex on, its day-by-day numbers won’t line up with TradeScope’s around 6:00 PM. Its Accounts tab does use the CME day, so it will match.

One more side effect: a trade opened at 3:00 PM and closed at 7:00 PM ET on the same date crosses the 6:00 PM line, so under CME Globex it counts as a carried-over position.