Can I trade the news?
Can I trade the news?
On our evaluation programs trading within 5 minutes either side of major news releases is prohibited unless you have purchased the news trading add-on.
On our new instant funding program purchased on or after 20/02/2025, news trading is allowed.
If a trade is opened, modified or closed within 5 minutes of any of these data releases, it may be considered a soft breach and your profits could be removed from your account balance.
The following is a list of all economic calendar releases that FTUK regards as major:
- Non Farm Payroll (NFP)
- Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) - USA & Eurozone
- ADP Employment Change
- Federal Insterest Rate Decisions
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - All Countries
- Federal Monetary Policy Statement
- Federal Open Market Commitee (FOMC) Press Conference
- Federal Open Market Commitee (FOMC) Minutes
- Trade Balance - All Countries
- Unemployment Rates - All Countries
- Bank of England (BoE) Interest Rate Decision
- Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI)
- Comsumer Price Index - All Countries
- Interest Rate Decisions - All Countries
- Rate Statements - All Countries
- Retail Sales - All Countries
- Employment Change - All Countries
- Inflation Expectations - All Countries
- Claimant Count Change - UK
- Producer Price Index - All Countries
- Press Conferences - All Countries
- Industrial Production Index (IPI) - All Countries
- The Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (MCSI)
- Meeting Minutes - All Countries
- Manufacturing PMI - USA & UK
- Services PMI - USA & UK
- Composite PMI - USA
- FOMC Minutes - UK
Updated on: 21/02/2025