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Trading during news is allowed as part of your normal strategy. What's banned is using news as a coin-flip — placing orders on both sides to gamble the print, or strategies that just 'chase the market.'
The gotcha
Non-directional 'straddle the news' bracket orders are explicitly treated as prohibited gambling, not legitimate news trading.
| normalStrategy | ALLOWED |
| straddleGamble | FORBIDDEN |
Source: support — official page . Confidence: verified.
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