Can I trade High Impact/red folder news?

Evaluation Challenges
You are allowed to hold trades during news events and over the weekend. However, you are not allowed to open or close a trade 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high-impact news events. On days with all day high impact news, trading is permitted however profit made on such days combined should not exceed 25% of your profit target, or 25% of your share of your payout request.

Pro Edge Accounts
You are allowed to hold trades during news events, but not over the weekend. However, you are not allowed to open or close a trade 8 minutes before and 8 minutes after high-impact news events. On days with all day high impact news, trading is permitted however profit made on such days combined should not exceed 25% of your payout request.

This rule applies to all types of trades, including manual open or close, pending orders, stop loss, and take profit orders.
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​Note: It is important to note that all high-impact news is restricted regardless of the trading pair.

All Day News

On days with all day high impact news, significant increases in volatility and rapid fluctuations in prices often occur. This level of volatility along with slippage and liquidity constraints means that some trades may not have been filled as they would in a typical environment. The restrictions implemented for these days is intended to ensure that trading results reflect more realistic market conditions and execution scenarios. We encourage everyone to review their trades carefully with these considerations in mind.

Speeches

During speeches, the same time restrictions apply as for high-impact news events, except that the restricted time window starts before the speech, and ends after the speech concludes. e.g. for a Pro Edge Account, you are not allowed to open or close a trade 8 minutes before the speech begins and 8 minutes after the speech ends.

Traders are permitted to hold trades over the weekend and engage in trading activities during news events.

If your Take Profit or Stop Loss is activated or filled during the restricted time window of 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high-impact news events, it will be considered a breach of the Equity Edge Analytics challenge.

If your trade is executed during an all day high impact news event, any profits generated from such trades should not exceed 25% of your profit target as it would then be considered a breach of the Equity Edge Analytics challenge.
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This applies to all forms of orders, including manual open or close, pending orders, stop loss, and take profit orders.​

Funded Traders are allowed to hold trades during news releases and over the weekend. On the funded account, high-impact news event trading will result in the deduction of any profits made from trades executed within the restricted 4-minute window.

This will not violate the funded account, but only the trade(s) opened or closed within the restricted 4-minute window will be reviewed, and the profits will not be counted during payout. If the profits generated from news trades (excluding all day news trades) exceeds 25% of the trader's profit share, the payout will be rejected, your profit share will be forfeited and the account will be reset back to its initial balance.

Similarly, if the profits generated from all day news trades exceeds 25% of the trader's profit share, the payout will be rejected and your profit share forfeited.

This applies to all forms of orders, including manual open or close, pending orders, stop loss, and take profit orders.​

If you have high-impact/red folder news at 5pm UTC, trades cannot be opened or closed from 4:58pm to 5:02pm, including TP, SL, or any limit orders, buy stop/sell stop, or manually open and close.

You are allowed to hold trades during news events. However, you are not allowed to open or close a trade 8 minutes before and 8 minutes after high-impact news events.
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The trade(s) opened or closed within the restricted 8-minute window will be reviewed, and the profits will be deducted during payout. If the profits generated from news trades (excluding all day news trades) exceeds 25% of the trader's profit share, the payout will be rejected, your profit share will be forfeited and the account will be reset back to its initial balance.

Similarly, if the profits generated from all day news trades exceeds 25% of the trader's profit share, the payout will be rejected and your profit share will be forfeited.
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Repeat offences may also lead to the termination of your account. This rule applies to all types of trades, including manual open or close, pending orders, stop loss, and take profit orders.
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​Note: It is important to note that all high-impact news is restricted regardless of the trading pair.

If you have high-impact/red folder news at 5pm UTC, trades cannot be opened or closed from 4:52pm to 5:08pm, including TP, SL, or any limit orders, buy stop/sell stop, or manually open and close.