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.

Instant 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.

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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Examples

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 Instant 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 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 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.

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 in profit, 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 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.
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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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Examples

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 in profit, or any limit orders, buy stop/sell stop, or manually open and close.