Introduction

News trading is allowed. However, our trading platform prevents opening new positions five minutes before and up to ten minutes after high-impact news.

This restriction is not a rule and will never cause account breaches. The duration trading is restricted depends on when liquidity stabilises, and reliable execution can resume.

How the news trading regulation works

Five minutes before high-impact news, all symbols, except for cryptocurrencies, will be switched to close-only mode. From this moment on, you cannot open new positions, but you can still close them.

For example, if the FOMC (a high-impact news event) is at 12:30 GMT, opening positions are disabled in the trading platform from 12:25 to 12:35 to 12:40 GMT.

During this period, you can still close or decrease position size and set and modify take-profit and stop-loss orders, which can also be triggered.

Time	Opening	Closing	SL	TP
5 mins before red news	Disabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Up to 10 mins after red news	Disabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled

Restricted new events

We restrict the following news events:

New Event	Frequency
US Nonfarm Payroll	First Friday of every month at 13:30 GMT
US Retail Sales	Monthly
US Consumer Price Index	Monthly
US Retail Sales	Monthly
ISM Services PMI	Monthly
ISM Manufacturing PMI	Monthly
US Core PCE Price Index	Monthly
US Gross Domestic Product	Quarterly
FED Interest Rate Decision	Every six weeks
ECB Interest Rate Decision	Every six weeks
BoE Interest Rate Decision	Every six weeks

FAQs

Where can I find all the high-impact news?

You don't have to keep track of this, as the system prevents opening positions at this time. The list of high-impact news events is available on ForexFactory or the cTrader platform.

Will I breach my account if I break this rule?

No, you cannot fail due to this rule, as it's impossible to open positions in the trading platform at this time.

Which symbols are restricted?

We restrict trading on all symbols for all events except for cryptocurrencies.