News Trading Restrictions
During the evaluation phases the trader is allowed to trade around news events without any restrictions.
On the funded ‘Funded Star’ account, the trader must not execute any market order, stop loss, take profit, limit order, or stop order during the 5 minutes before and after a high impact news release. This means that if a high impact news release is scheduled for 12:30, the trader must not execute any orders from 12:25 to 12:35.
If a trader does trade during this time it is considered a soft breach and will not result in the loss of the trading account. If the trader makes a profit from a trade executed during the news window then that profit will be deducted from their account, and a loss will not be compensated.
To accommodate swing traders, profits from trades that have a minimum duration of 48 hours are exempt from the news trading restrictions.
