Best Prop Firms for News Trading

Apex explicitly permits news trading. Bulenox, Funded Futures Network, Tradeify, and several others also allow it. Take Profit Trader restricts trading during major news events on PRO accounts. Always check the firm's news trading clause before holding positions through FOMC, NFP, or CPI releases.

Common: no trading 2-5 minutes before/after high-impact news. Some firms ban trading during the entire economic release window (e.g. all of FOMC day). Restrictions usually only apply to major calendared events, not general macro headlines. Read the firm's economic calendar clause carefully.

News trading creates extreme volatility that can blow drawdown limits in seconds. Firms that ban it protect themselves from cascading liquidations across many accounts simultaneously. The restriction also discourages reckless directional bets that don't reflect skilled trading.

Usually as "trading within X minutes of a high-impact economic release." Some firms publish a calendar; others use ForexFactory or similar third-party calendars. The definition matters because trading 6 minutes before NFP is fine at most firms, but 2 minutes before isn't.

Pure news scalpers (entering/exiting within seconds of release) need Apex or Bulenox. Position-hold news traders (taking trades that survive past the release) work fine at most firms. Firms with strict no-news rules suit traders who avoid catalyst trading entirely.