There are no news trading restrictions for any Evaluation Accounts.
Advanced Qualified Accounts do not have News Trading Restrictions, but please review the Prohibited Trading Practices. An "all or nothing" approach or gambling tendencies still will not be tolerated at any time, especially during high volatility events.
Standard and Zero Qualified Accounts
You may hold through news releases following your trading plan, but no orders may be executed within 2 minutes before or 2 minutes after high impact news events.
Here at Alpha Futures we refer to the Calendar on ForexFactory. Anything with a red folder is considered high impact and this rule applies.
If you are on ProjectX, there are additional events pulled from Financial Juice, marked on your charts and in Trader Hub on the platform. Please note, Financial Juice does categorize many events as high impact, which is helpful for trader knowledge, but ONLY RED FOLDERS ON FOREX FACTORY are enforced.
High Impact Events will be marked directly on the chart of the asset they affect. For example, the UK GDP will obviously affect /6B and it will be marked on the chart as shown below.
This event would not affect /ES however, and there would be no indication on the chart.
Speeches
The high impact speeches will be marked in Forex Factory with a red folder, just like other High Impact Events. The 4 minute window only applies to the start time listed of the speech event, not its entirety.
If you violate this policy, your profits on the trade within the 4 minute window will be void, your payout will be denied, and you will have to wait until the next eligible payout date to request again. We understand people make mistakes, the first time violating this rule will only be a warning, and trader will be able to keep their account. Subsequent violations after warning will lead to breach of the account.