How Do You Trade Indices at Funded Guru?

The short answer: Trade the cash session, bank the zero commission. Indices run at 1:20 leverage with $0 commission at Funded Guru, plus overnight and weekend holding and zero swap fees. The discipline is timing and gaps – indices move hardest at their cash open and can gap hard over weekends and holidays, so size by your stop and know where your floor sits before you carry a position.

Here's how to trade them inside the rules.

The zero-commission edge

Indices cost $0 in commission at Funded Guru – same as energies, and the lowest tier on the platform. For a trader who's active on indices, that's real money kept: no per-lot charge eating into a scalp or a fast intraday rotation. Your cost to trade is the spread, full stop.

That changes the math on short-hold strategies. Trades that wouldn't clear their own commission on a forex pair can make sense on an index, because there's no commission to clear in the first place.

Leverage and how indices move

Indices run at 1:20 leverage. They trend cleaner than forex over a session – driven by broad risk sentiment, earnings flows, and the same macro data that moves everything else – but the moves are blockier, with defined ranges and respected levels intraday.

The cash session is where the action is. An index does most of its meaningful work between its own market's open and close; outside those hours, the instrument still prices but liquidity thins and ranges go quiet. Trade the session the index actually belongs to, not the dead hours around it.

Gaps are the real risk

This is the indices-specific trap. Equity indices gap. They close for the day, news breaks while the cash market is shut, and they reopen away from the prior close – sometimes well away. Weekends and holidays magnify it.

On a 2-Step account, max daily loss is 5% and the overall floor is 10%; on Instant Funding it's a 3% daily limit with a 6% trailing drawdown. A gap can move you a chunk of that before you've placed a single trade for the day. If you're holding an index position through a close — overnight, over a weekend, into a holiday – set your stop knowing it may not fill at your level on a gap, and know where that leaves you against your floor.

Sizing and the news window

Indices react sharply to high-impact data – rate decisions, jobs numbers, inflation prints. Funded Guru's 4-minute news rule means you can't open new positions in the window around a major release, but positions you already hold stay open and can be managed through it. Plan entries around the window, not into it.

On Instant Funding, your total open risk across all positions still can't cross 1% of account size. Size each index position from its stop distance, and remember that holding two correlated indices — say a US tech index and a US broad index – is effectively one larger bet against your limit.

The quick checklist

Before you open an index position at Funded Guru:

• Am I trading the index's own cash session, or a thin one?

• Is my stop sized for the range, and does it survive a gap?

• On Instant Funding, does this fit inside my 1% open-risk ceiling?

• Is there a major release inside the next 4 minutes?

• If I'm holding through a close, where's my floor on a gap?

Indices reward traders who show up for the cash session, respect the gap risk, and put the zero commission to work. Trade the open, mind the close, and let the rules keep you in the game.