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title: "Partial close - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Closing part of a position while leaving the remainder open. It banks some of the result and reduces the risk carried by the trade without giving up…"
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Trading mechanics

# Partial close

Closing part of a position while leaving the remainder open. It banks some of the result and reduces the risk carried by the trade without giving up exposure entirely.

Also called: Scaling out

GFN’s figure

Each leg of a partial close is still a trade on a GFN account, so the 2 minutes minimum hold applies, and each leg pays $3.50 per side, $7 per lot round turn.

In detail

## Partial close, explained

Partial exits change the arithmetic of a strategy rather than improving it automatically: they raise the win rate and lower the average win, which can help or hurt depending on how the edge is distributed.

On a prop account they are most useful as a risk tool. Halving a position halves the floating loss it can produce, which directly restores daily allowance.

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Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Take profit](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/take-profit) - A resting order that closes a position at a target price. Paired with a stop loss it fixes the reward-to-risk ratio of a trade at the moment it is placed, before the outcome is known.
- [Break-even stop](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/break-even-stop) - Moving a stop loss to the entry price once a trade is far enough into profit, so the position can no longer produce a loss. It removes risk from the trade at the cost of a tighter exit.
- [Position size](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/position-size) - How many lots a trade is placed in. It is calculated from the dollar amount being risked and the stop distance, not chosen first - which is the reverse of how most traders approach it.
- [Commission](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/commission) - An explicit per-lot charge for executing a trade, usually quoted per side. Two sides make a round turn, so the quoted figure has to be doubled to get the cost of a completed trade.
- [R-multiple](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/r-multiple) - A trade's result expressed in units of its initial risk. Risking $200 and making $600 is +3R; hitting the stop is -1R. It makes results comparable across account sizes and position sizes.

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