# Scheduled Sweeps

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\*Scheduled Sweeps from Trading to Consumption Account are coming soon. \
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Currently, all units are transferred to the Consumption Account as soon as the trade is filled.
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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