diff --git a/lib/trading-logic.ts b/lib/trading-logic.ts
index 712f9d9..c38be9f 100644
--- a/lib/trading-logic.ts
+++ b/lib/trading-logic.ts
@@ -428,8 +428,14 @@ export function projectPerfectPath(opts: {
     const dd = Math.max(0, opts.payout?.drawdown ?? 0);
 
     const today = currentTradeDateCT();
+    // A weekend "today" (Saturday, or Sunday before the evening open) has no
+    // session — the platform's realizedPnL is the LAST session's stale number,
+    // already booked in cycleDailyPnL under its own date. Adding it as a
+    // weekend row would fabricate an extra qualifying day.
+    const todayDow = new Date(`${today}T00:00:00Z`).getUTCDay();
+    const todayHasSession = todayDow !== 0 && todayDow !== 6;
     let sim = opts.cycleDailyPnL.filter((d) => d.date !== today);
-    if (opts.realizedPnL !== 0) sim = [...sim, { date: today, pnl: opts.realizedPnL }];
+    if (todayHasSession && opts.realizedPnL !== 0) sim = [...sim, { date: today, pnl: opts.realizedPnL }];
     else sim = [...sim];
     const funds = [...opts.fundTransactions];
     let balance = opts.balance;
@@ -479,8 +485,7 @@ export function projectPerfectPath(opts: {
     // Book the rest of today silently — the perfect path finishes today too.
     // Skipped when "today" is a weekend date (Saturday, or Friday evening
     // after the roll): there is no session to finish.
-    const todayDow = new Date(`${today}T00:00:00Z`).getUTCDay();
-    if (todayDow !== 0 && todayDow !== 6) {
+    if (todayHasSession) {
         const eff = effectiveNow();
         const plan = computeDayPlan(
             accountId, today, eff.profitTarget, eff.consistency, sim, eff.minDayPnL,
@@ -497,9 +502,9 @@ export function projectPerfectPath(opts: {
         }
     }
 
-    // Fires the payout ON the given date — the day the cycle's final trading
-    // day books (or today, when the cycle already stands complete), the
-    // payout becomes requestable. The withdrawal takes the completed stage's
+    // Fires the payout ON the given date — the trading day the cycle's final
+    // required day books (the last traded day, when the cycle already stands
+    // complete), the payout becomes requestable after that session. The withdrawal takes the completed stage's
     // share of the EQUITY PROFIT (for a $0-start account that is the whole
     // balance), capped. Prop payouts come out of profit, never the funded
     // principal. Returns true when the projection should stop (no further
@@ -527,9 +532,10 @@ export function projectPerfectPath(opts: {
         return true;
     };
 
-    // Already complete right now — target hit and min days done? Then the
-    // payout is requestable TODAY, whatever day of the week it is, not on
-    // the next session.
+    // Already complete right now — target hit and min days done? The payout
+    // anchors to the trading day the cycle finished: the last traded day,
+    // requestable after that session's close. Never "today" — a projection
+    // computed over the weekend must not slide a Friday finish to Sunday.
     {
         const eff = effectiveNow();
         const probe = nextTradingDate(today);
@@ -539,7 +545,11 @@ export function projectPerfectPath(opts: {
         );
         if (plan && plan.dayTarget <= 0 && eff.minTradingDays <= qualifyingDays(eff.minDayPnL, probe)) {
             const stage = 1 + funds.filter((f) => f.amount < 0).length;
-            if (finishCycle(today, 0, stage, eff.drain)) return out;
+            const traded = sim.filter((d) => d.pnl !== 0);
+            const doneOn = traded.length > 0
+                ? traded.reduce((a, b) => (a.date > b.date ? a : b)).date
+                : today;
+            if (finishCycle(doneOn, 0, stage, eff.drain)) return out;
         }
     }