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Can I Trade The Economic News?

Rules Regarding Trading in and Around Economic News Releases

Updated over 2 weeks ago

In our Instant Funding Program, news trading is permitted at all stages with no restrictions.


The following rule applies to our One-Step and Two-Step programs:

If a trade is opened or closed within the specified 10-minute window, it will be considered a soft breach, and:

  • Profits will be erased.

  • Losses will not be compensated under any circumstance.

The 10 minute window begins exactlly 5 minutes before a major news release, and closes 5 minutes after. During this period:

  • It is not permitted to open or close any trades, either manually or through stop losses, target profit orders or pending orders.

  • You should refrain from trading all assets.



MAJOR ECONOMIC DATA INCLUDE:

  • 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

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