News trading rules at funded firms and the slippage nobody tells you about
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2026 8:13 pm
Many funded account providers restrict trading around major releases. Typical rules ban opening or closing positions within a few minutes of high-impact news, with penalties for violations.
Scalpers need to know exactly how the rule is defined. Which events count, how large the window is, and whether holding through news is allowed all vary. Some firms use their own calendar, which might differ from the one on the trader's screen.
Execution quality adds another wrinkle. If the firm runs a simulated environment, slippage and spread behaviour during news may not match real market behaviour, and fills can be unusually good or unusually bad.
Violations are sometimes triggered by automatic systems, with no human review. A stop-loss triggered by a news spike during a restricted window can count as a breach.
Keeping a personal list of restricted times, and being flat well before them, is the safest route.
Have you been caught out by a news restriction, and how did the firm handle it?
Scalpers need to know exactly how the rule is defined. Which events count, how large the window is, and whether holding through news is allowed all vary. Some firms use their own calendar, which might differ from the one on the trader's screen.
Execution quality adds another wrinkle. If the firm runs a simulated environment, slippage and spread behaviour during news may not match real market behaviour, and fills can be unusually good or unusually bad.
Violations are sometimes triggered by automatic systems, with no human review. A stop-loss triggered by a news spike during a restricted window can count as a breach.
Keeping a personal list of restricted times, and being flat well before them, is the safest route.
Have you been caught out by a news restriction, and how did the firm handle it?