# Scheduled Sweeps {% hint style="info" %} \*Scheduled Sweeps from Trading to Consumption Account are coming soon. \ \ Currently, all units are transferred to the Consumption Account as soon as the trade is filled. {% endhint %} On The Grid, Scheduled Sweeps are the automatic process that moves Units from your Trading Account into your Consumption Account every four hours (00:00, 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00 UTC). Until a Sweep runs, purchased Units sit in your Trading Account and can still be resold on the order book. This is the mechanism that connects trading activity to actual inference delivery - it gives buyers a window to adjust their position before capacity becomes locked for consumption. ### How Sweeps work To ensure Units bought and sold on the market are with the intent of short-term usage, The Grid runs a **Scheduled Sweep** every 4 hours 00:00 UTC, 04:00, 08:00, and so on. At the moment of each Sweep, all Units in your Trading Account, across all Instruments, are **automatically transferred** to your Consumption Account. This includes Units that are in open sell orders. As always, Units in your Consumption Account * Have 4 hours to be used before they expire * Cannot be transferred back to your Trading Account, and therefore can never be resold --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://thegrid.ai/docs/introduction/core-concepts/scheduled-sweeps.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.