Is news trading allowed?
Holding trades through the news is allowed. News trading is restricted around high-impact news events. Specifically, traders are not allowed to open or close trades five minutes before or after the release of high-impact news.
Trading news will result in a hard breach of the account.
News trading is not restricted. You can open and close trades whenever you want.
Economic Calendar
High-impact news events are determined based on listings from Forex Factory, a well-regarded resource for Forex market news and events. We only take this economic calendar into consideration when we look at news trading.
You can find the news calendar here: Economic Calendar
High-impact news or red folder news look like this:
Which pairs can you trade while high-impact news come out?
High-impact news only affects the pair you trade.
For example, if you trade EURUSD EUR and USD, high-impact news will affect you but not AUD news.
Another example: if you trade XAUUSD or NASDAQ, high-impact USD news will affect you, but not EUR news.
Note:
- All-day events in the Forex Factory Calendar can be ignored.
- Tentative events in the Forex Factory Calendar can be ignored.
- All events without an exact time can be ignored.
- If your stop loss or any other automation setup is triggered during the 5 minutes window and is opening or closing trades, it is considered a breach. It does not need to be done manually.
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